Quotes from Robin Hobb

I have been in howling storms in which a shout is reduced to a whisper, moved across the sea's featureless face in a gray fog that does not yield to human eyes.

You're alive and safe, and I will not let any evil befall you. And you know that you can trust me. Because I love you.

When you save any part of the world, you've saved the whole world. In fact, that's the only way it can be done.

When you spring to an idea, and decide it is truth, without evidence, you blind yourself to other possibilities. Consider them all, boy.

He gave a final shake of his coat. I go to the hunt!

We are here, Fitz, you and I, to change the future of the world. To reach out and hold in place the tiny pebble that could trigger the boulder's tumbling.

It is irony, is it not, that you live so short a time, and waste so much of it being stupid?

an Elderling named Sedric was raising the child with Carson.

luck belongs to children and madmen.

They do as we do, my dear. They take what joy they may find in life as they can. As you well know that Skelly has run off to do tonight, also. The shadows of harsh times creep over us. For in a battle between dragons and men, my love, it is not only the Elderlings who must decide where they stand, but you and me as well.

But there was no point in sighing after what I could not have. It only distracted me from what I did have, and that was more than I'd ever had in my life.

All that is of dragons belongs only to dragons.

She fell silent, overcome at what humans, in their ignorance, had done.

The shortest distance between a man and his goal was often a lie

Girls think strangely

It was an impressive display of good food abused in the name of fashionable cooking.

Wait for you? Not likely! I've always had to run ahead of you and show you the way.

My fate was a runaway horse, dragging destruction like a broken cart through so many lives.

The truth doesn't need you to recognize it, young man, for it to be so. You need the truth to recognize you.

Acceptance of what is. That is the shortest path to peace with yourself. This is wisdom. Does it hurt? Does wisdom hurt? Does peace hurt? Does acceptance hurt?

A catalyst was DarAles for his time, a changer of hearts and lives. He came not to be hero, but to enable the hero in others. He came, not to fulfill prophesies, but to open the doors to new futures. Such is ever the task of the catalyst.

Once a man has been broken by pain, he remains forever a victim. He cannot ever forget that place he has visited, the moment when he decided that he would surrender everything rather than endure more pain.

Attitude and bearing. Believe you are beautiful, and so will everyone else

I've just been living from day to day. Waiting for something or someone else to change the situation." His eyes studied her face, looking for a reaction to his next words. "I think I need to make a real decision. I believe I need to take action on my own.