Quotes from Robin Hobb

Not a perfect quote, but close." "Don't do what you can't undo, until you've considered what you can't do once you've done it.

I know you meant no harm by it, boy. But men don't talk about times spent among the pillows with a lady. And assassins don't talk about…our business.

Few things are so exhilarating as good health on a clear spring morning

Once a person had realized death, if they could turn aside from pain they immediately turned toward wonder and Sa. It took both steps, Wintrow knew that. If a person had not accepted death as a reality, the touch could be refused. Some accepted death and the touch, but could not let go of their pain. They clung to it as a final vestige of life.

A bed unslept, and a woman unbedded. The bed is yours by right, but the woman, though she may come to you in time, never completely belongs to you. Yet the child is yours, for the child belongs not to who makes him but to he who takes him.

Poverty and simplicity were not shields from the greed of others. If you had nothing left to steal, they'd take your body and enslave it.

She thinks you will succeed. But whether you will know you have succeeded, or if the success will be the one you would have chosen for yourself, well, those are things no one can say now. But she knows you will succeed at whatever you are meant to do." p.613: Paragon to Brashen (about Mother)

Nothing is quite so destructive as pity, especially self-pity.

more to curry favor than to educate.

alone came, pitched in a normal tone but carrying clearly. 'Somehow,' she said coldly, 'you have confused profitable and not profitable with right and wrong.

Work, the old people say, keeps a man young. But perhaps that is something old folk say just because they know they must go on working.

Artists and whores, gold always bought them. An artist was no more than a whore who had been well-paid.

He said nothing to any of them, and they knew better than to speak to the captain when he stood thus, deep in thought. He had a problem. He'd settle it without help from any of them. That was what captains did.

We dream of carving our dragon.

no man could make time, but only use that which he was given wisely.

Existuje místo, kde veÅ¡kerý ?as je nyní a vÅ¡echny volby prosté a vždycky tvé vlastní.

It's all connected. 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.

No. Not tonight. Not by impulse, not without thought, No. It did not matter what others did. She had to think for herself about such things.

One way to disperse fear and create decision was to consider the worst possible outcome of one's actions.

Vlci žádného krále nemají.

Demain vous doit la somme de vos jours passés.

Jsme tady, Fitzi, ty a já, abychom zmÄ›nili budoucnost svÄ›ta. Abychom hmátli a podrželi na místÄ› ten malinký oblázek, který by mohl uvolnit padající balvany.

Dawn came as early as it always does

Man cannot grieve as dogs do. But we grieve for many years.