Quotes from Robin Hobb

Justice. There's a thing we shall ever thirst after, and ever be parched.

Amber?" he said pleadingly. His voice went high on her name and broke, as it sometimes did when he was afraid. "Are you taking my beads away?

My brother! Nighteyes greeted me joyously.

My dream was dead in my arms.

I didn't condemn you," he defended himself. "I was just surprised. I've a right to be shocked. It's not what one expects of a Trader's daughter. But that doesn't mean I…" 'Fuck you, Wintrow,' she retaliated savagely.

Estamos aqui', respondi, e soltei uma gargalhada. Nunca pensara que a ira e o desespero pudessem fazer um homem rir.

Et vif comme la pensée, il m'échappa, dévalant la pente comme l'ombre d'un nuage quand le vent souffle

A girl did not need to hit to hurt someone.

like a bright chip of glass, fallen from a gorgeous mosaic of Elderlings and turreted cities and dragons on the wing, to lie in the dirt, broken away from all she that had once been her destiny

And that is what you would truly wish, little one? To stop being yourself, before you have even completed yourself? There is so much more you could grow to be.

Ahora lo entiendo. Tenía que decírmelo para espolearme. Tengo que dejar de comportarme como si hubiera un mañana donde enmendar las cosas. Todo debe hacerse ahora, de inmediato, sin pensar en el futuro. Sin creer en el futuro. Sin temer el futuro.

Even if you do only a little damage, they will learn that touching you has a price. Some will not be willing to pay it. I

As much as I had always longed to be freed of my duties and obligations, being released from such bonds was as much a severing as an emancipation.

The same thing I live for are the same things I would die for.

Tú creas posibilidades. Mientras existas se puede cambiar el futuro.

And yet it was not Buckkeep that came to my mind, but a meadow overlooking the sea, and a girl in bright red skirts who beckoned me. A time, rather than a place. No road led there anymore.

I could not help but see the hand of the balancer in all of this. Could hatred and determination be a counterweight to organization and experience? I suddenly understood something about the old god of death and why he was also the god of balances.

As well to clutch at the moon's reflection in a still midnight pond as to seek a grip on that bright mind.

All this guilt and shame and remorse you carry, Kestrel. Don't you see? That is what they burned you with. And you have added to it, all these years. The wall is of your own making. Take it down. Forgive yourself. Come out.

You can roll dice, and understand that the whole game may hinge on one turn of a die. You deal out cards, and say that all a man's fortune for the night may turn upon one hand. But a man's whole life, you sniff at, and say, what, this nought of a human, this fisherman, this carpenter, this thief, this cook, why, what can they do in the great wide world? And so you putter and sputter your lives away, like candles burning in a draught.

There is nothing dishonorable about abandoning pain. Sometimes peace is most quickly found when a man simply stops avoiding it.

For time is the great enslaver of us all.

When you borrow trouble against what might be, you neglect the moment you have now to enjoy.

You poor, pathetic bastard," the charm ground out the slow accusing words. "You've become Igrot. Do you know that? To defeat the monster you became the monster." The tiny voice became even fainter. "You have only yourself to fear now.