Quotes from Robin Hobb

grant your mercy, lend me your strength. Mercy, on an indrawn breath, Strength as he breathed out.

There was, she suddenly saw, many ways to be raped.

Badgerlock, I rather think …" "Prince FitzChivalry," I corrected him. I looked him up and down. "And do not make that mistake again." "Prince FitzChivalry," he accepted the correction. He opened his mouth and then shut it again. I turned away from him, holding his horse's reins and Thick's. "That wasn't the mistake," I said without looking back. "I meant your trying to think.

Petting the cat makes you feel better, Fennel asserted smugly.

You've many tasks and duties, and I won't claim to know all that you do for our prince. I'm sure that at any moment of the day, you can find some reason to be too busy for this. But a man makes time for what is important in his life.

Probeer dit rijk te regeren, en het zal je tot slaaf maken,' fluisterde een geest van de Wilde Regenlanden in mijn oor. 'Word er deel van, en je gaat een nieuw leven tegemoet.

was as charged as if a storm were brewing. It was a storm, she told herself, and one her father had seen gathering for years. Still, it humbled her to watch an old captain like Tenira announce that he would call the first bolt down on himself.

I believe you each have something to offer the other. But you'll only value it if you discover it for yourselves.

For it is said, one may ask of the Elderlings, but what they answer may not be the question you ask, but the one you should have asked. And the answer to that question may be one a man cannot hear and live.

If she could make them both irritated with her, chances are they would commiserate with each other. So it had always worked when they were boys.

My head cleared, and suddenly I had heart to fight again, to ignore pain and damage, to fight! I swear I saw myself, face purpled from strangling, the rich blood streaming and soaking and the smell so maddening.

No man becomes a pirate because he wants to be ruled by another.

The Fool had always asserted that time moved in a great circle, but a decaying one, where at every turning humanity repeated mistakes, making them ever graver.

Even if you cage his flesh and forbid him to utter his thoughts, even to cutting out his tongue, you cannot still a man's soul.

In a moment all became clear to me. How stupid could I have been?

we are the sum of all we have done added to the sum of all that has been done to us. There is no escaping that, not for any of us.

complaints about

Regrets are useless

It is possible to be homesick for a time and lonely for the only other person to recall it.

Tell him to turn away from death and choose life. Choose struggle and toil and pain and lovely, lovely life.

All you can do is start from where you are.

Oh, Traspié, Traspié, muchacho -dijo con la voz cargada de alivio-. Pensaba que te habíamos perdido. Pensaba que te habíamos hecho algo peor que dejarte morir. Sus viejos brazos eran fuertes, tensos, a mi alrededor. Fui considerado con el anciano. No le dije que era precisamente lo que habían hecho.

Almost, it is like a puppet show beginning. Yes, I can see it thus. The curtains parted, and there we stood before that great door. The old man lifted the brass knocker and banged it down, once, twice, thrice on the plate that resounded to his pounding. And

Your wolf still looks out of your eyes. You think that if you stand perfectly still, no one will see you.