Quotes from Robin Hobb

What I said to you earlier, I was angry, I was..." "Right on target." The sound he made might have been a laugh, if not so freighted with bitterness. "Only in the way that people who know one another best know how to hurt one another best," I pleaded.

I have since come to know that many men always see another's good fortune as a slight to themselves.

Half the evil in this world occurs while decent people stand by and do nothing wrong. It's not enough to refrain from evil, Trell. People have to attempt to do right, even if they believe they cannot succeed.

All of us stand on the edge of the future; why venture off the precipice?

For some things, there is no forgiving or unforgiving. They are simply a crossroads, and a direction taken, whether I would or no. Someone else set my feet on that path. All I can control is every step I take after that.

And I had gone along with such a crooked piece of logic. Why? Did either of us believe that teaching children might be easier than killing them?

Everyone thinks that courage is about facing death without flinching. But almost anyone can do that. Almost anyone can hold their breath and not scream for as long as it takes to die. True courage is facing life without flinching. I don't mean the times when the right path is hard, but glorious at the end. I'm talking about enduring the boredom, and the messiness, and the inconvenience of doing what is right.

Butter for the cat. I have no reason to be nice to you. Yes you do. I am the cat.

Deja de definirte por lo que no puedes hacer. ¿Por qué no piensas en lo que no has perdido?

When I wallow in something dead to reawaken the savor of it, you rebuke me.

I'd rather be forgotten for the things people think I've done. And I'd give it all if I could forget the things I failed to do.

She stared at him suspiciously. 'You drank all

I did not see you there I said. You never did replied Ketrikken.

Males are timorous creatures at best. They think only to feed and breed. But you and I, young queen, we know there is more. Females must be ruthless, to shelter their young and continue the race. Chances must be taken. Males will quiver in their shadow, fearing their own deaths. We know that the only thing to be feared is the end of the race.

It all seems pretty obvious now." "It usually is, after someone else thinks of it.

Sometimes a man doesn't know how badly he's hurt until someone else probes the wound.

Idle hands on a boat made for troubles all around.

Something killed them. Long ago. I don't know exactly what. Some great cataclysm of the earth, that buried whole cities in a matter of days. It sank the coast, drowning harbour towns, and changed the courses of rivers. It wiped out the dragons, and I think it killed the Elderlings as well.

True courage is facing life without flinching. I don't mean the times when the right path is hard, but glorious at the end. I'm talking about enduring the boredom, and the messiness, and the inconvenience of doing what is right.

Is there anything more chilling than looking at a righteous fifteen-year-old and realizing he has the power to unravel your entire life?

True courage is facing life without flinching. I don't mean the times when the right path is hard, but glorious at the end. I'm talking about enduring the boredom, and the messiness, and the inconvenience of doing what is right.' She

make." He bit off a chunk of the dry meat

Perhaps to another man it would have been obvious. Leave old pains alone. When they cease coming to call, do not invite them back.

Humans could never accept the world as it was and live in it. They were always breaking it and living among the shattered pieces.