Quotes from Robin Hobb

The ones who chose to live free of inconvenience by tolerating the agony and degradation of others?

May fortune be kind, and the night gentle.

I'd have wished myself elsewhere, but there is something in a boy that takes the mundanely difficult and unpleasant and turns it into a personal challenge and an adventure.

You poison today's ease, reaching always for tomorrow.

Vanity is such a strange thing. They mourned me, and I was warmed that they loved me.

He was stupid, stupid, stupid, and his only hope of surviving was in not letting anyone else know how stupid he was.

He would protect your cub as his own, he pointed out quietly. That is pack. He meant the words for comfort. I did not need them. Instead I reached to rest a hand on his ruff. Did you see how she stood and faced them down? I demanded with pride. A most excellent bitch, Nighteyes agreed.

The Chalcedean slave trade had largely created the pirates and their settlements.

They also found the cocooned dragons. They had no idea that was what they were, of course. They thought … who knows what they thought at first? Perhaps they seemed like massive sections of tree trunks. So they refer to it: wizardwood.

Twas Chivalry's son, His eyes like flame, Who shared his blood If not his name. A Farseer son, But ne'er an heir. Whose bloodied locks No crown would bear.

Better. I think. That is, some hurts have lessened, but the ones that remain are still sharp enough that I don't know if I'm better or just becoming more adept at ignoring pain.

Be a little puppet on their strings. That was what Reyn wanted from her, also. She recognized that even if he did not. He was attracted to her not just for her beauty and charm, but because she was young. He thought he could control all her actions and even her thoughts.

Men it is who think they can rule others' lives, but have no bonds to them. Do you think that to bond or not to bond is for you alone to decide? My heart is my own. I give it where I will. I will not give it to one who thrusts me aside.

I tried to leave you alone, Fitz. To find what peace you could, even if it excluded me from your life." Ten years ago, I could not have understood the pain in his voice. I would only have seen him as interfering and calculating. Only now, with a son of my own intent on ignoring every bit of advice I'd ever given him, could I recognize what it had cost him to let me go my own way and make my own choices. He

One part braggart to one part coward. He would fear everyone he did not control. And the next day he would fear those he controlled even more.

I tried a last time. "When you want a thing so badly for so long, and then it comes time to face that you cannot have it, sometimes—

La mort nous guette et elle est toujours assurée de sa prise. Il ne sert à rien d'y songer sans cesse, mais, dans nos entrailles dans nos os, nous savons tous qu'elle est là. Tous sauf les humains.

She held his hand and did not look down nor back.

You have no idea what that would do to my life," I pleaded quietly. "No. I don't," he admitted easily, but with growing outrage. "And neither do you. You go around making these monumental decisions about what other people should know or not know about their own lives. But you don't really have any more idea how it will turn out than I do! You just do what you think is safest and then crawl around hoping no one will find out and blame you later if things go wrong!

All life was danger and death was the only way to be safe.

when all the things in my life seem to collide and contradict each other, I pick one set of facts and believe those, no matter what." I lifted my eyes and met his as I asked him, "Do you blame me?

Become indispensable to everyone on this journey. Then you will have reasons to go everywhere and hear everything and no one will question your presence

When you cut pieces out of the truth to avoid looking like a fool, you end up sounding like a moron instead. Let's start again.

Truly, the girl had grown up. Althea recalled ashamedly that she had once felt that some hardship would improve Malta. Undoubtedly she had been improved, but the cost had been high.