Quotes from Robin Hobb

Claro que não sabes (...) E nem sequer queres ver o que está posto na mesa à tua frente. Homens. Se estivesse a chover sopa, estarias lá fora com um garfo.

I had no idea what to do with this unexpected life.

That is half of teaching an apprentice: making sure the youngster learns what you said, not what she thinks you said.

Better to regret unsaid words than repent of words I could never call back. Who

I will always take your part, Bee. Right or wrong. That is why you must always take care to be right

I need a friend, and I have none to whom I can admit my weakness, my fear, my errors.

I've been the reader sending that letter or small gift to a writer I've never met. I sent them because I wanted that writer to know that I'd met their characters. Their characters had become my friends. I hadn't read a story; I'd shared a life.

That isn't how I see it, Amber. That isn't how I see it at all. It's just my life, and now that I have finally discovered what I must have to be happy, I'm willing to lay down my life for it. That's all.' She smiled. 'That is all . You are right. And that is all that All ever is.

Lost a fight?' he'd asked, still out of breath. 'The fight isn't over until you win it

It felt good, she suddenly decided, to set herself to a physical task. For this small time, at least, she could see the results of her effort and her will.

I do not think you should be alone with this sort of grief. But he was wrong. Grief makes its own solitude, and I knew that I must endure it.

There is security in knowing that a friend has your back, even if he is sound asleep

Be very chary of telling your hoarded secrets. Many lose all power once they have been divulged.

You think that is true, but I assure you it is not. Death is better than the sort of captivity they plan for you. I have been a captive, a toy for heartless men. I made them fear me. It is why they sought to sell me. It was why your father could buy my freedom.' 'I do not know that tale.' 'It is a dark and sad one.

I bent and kissed his brow in farewell. And then, grasping the rightness of that foreign tradition, I named him as myself. For when I burned him, I knew I would be ending myself, as well. The man I had been would not survive this loss. "Good-bye, FitzChivalry Farseer.

The White Prophet and the Catalyst!" she cried in disgust. "Rather name them as they are, the Fool and the Idiot. Of all the careless, foolish things to do!

that life was an immense wheel, turning in a set track and that his task was to bump the wheel out of that track and set it on a better one?

Children are not born with memories of who insulted their mother or slew their grandfather or stole their land. Those hates are bequeathed to them, taught them, breathed into them. If adults didn't tell children of their hereditary hates, perhaps we would do better.

I don't understand," I said faintly. "You don't have to," he replied comfortingly. "Understanding how or why is very seldom as useful as understanding that things are.

The problem is not that we forget the past. It is that we recall it too well. Children recall wrongs that enemies did to their grandfathers, and blame the granddaughters of the old enemies.

Could it be that simple? Simply pretend we had never quarreled; just go back to treating each other as we had before?

Of all the people I could lie to, I'd always been best at lying to myself.

It is worse than useless to do things halfway, Bee. For then you think the work is done, but someone must come behind you later to do it all over again. Even if you must work much harder and get less done, it is better to do the whole task the first time.

In the space of a handful of nights, her whole concept of what a ship was underwent a sea-change.