Quotes from Robin Hobb

I wanted us to share all our lives. You wish to keep me in a box, separate from your life. I cannot be someone you come to when you have nothing more important to do.

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

I felt suddenly old, and hastily entered Chade's chambers to remind myself that he was much older than I was.

I haven't forgiven anything. And I don't believe in the "us" you think I might take vengeance on. You didn't do this to me. But even if you had, killing you would not undo it.

upended my memory as if it were a crock of oddments

Justicia. Eso es algo que anhelar, algo de lo que nunca estaremos hartos. Pero no. Nos conformamos con la ley

And that he who carries tales has little else in his head.

E o que amastes, aquilo que ambos amastes verdadeiramente, não foi um ao outro. Foi a altura das vossas vidas. Foi a primavera dos vossos anos, e a vida a correr forte em vós, e a guerra à vossa porta e os vossos corpos fortes e perfeitos.

Thuis, dat zijn mensen. Het is niet een plaats. Als je er terugkeert nadat de mensen verdwenen zijn, zie je alleen nog wat er niet is.

Sometimes I wonder about that grip. The hand was hard and rough, trapping mine within it. And yet it was warm, and not unkind, as it held mine. Only firm. It did not let me slip on the icy streets, but it did not let me escape my fate, either.

Suspense was an excellent tool for keeping powerful people off balance.

Doing something stupid and reckless is not a better proof of your love than doing something measured and powerful. You are no longer the boy who chased Regal's coterie through the halls of Buckkeep Castle with a bared blade. You are Prince FitzChivalry Farseer. And we will make them pay with every drop of their blood.

What is a secret? It is much more than knowledge shared with only a few, or perhaps only one other. It is power. It is a bond. It may be a sign of deep trust, or the darkest threat possible.

The fight isn't over until you win it, Fitz. That's all you have to remember. No matter what the other man thinks. Or the horse.

You are different, Bee. It will make some parts of your life very difficult. But if you always fall back on your differences to explain everything you dislike about the world, you will fall into self-pity." p. 293 Fitz to Bee

death is not the opposite of life, but the opposite of choice. Death is what you get when there are no choices left to make. Am I right?

C'est une question de tuyauterie, ni plus ni moins.

Clerres is the heart of the world, and the heartbeat of the world must always be steady.

négliges ma voix comme pets de ton cul

I idly wished for something else, for any situation that was neither this forsaken chamber nor the tenseness of Burrich's room. For a restfulness that perhaps I had once known somewhere else but could no longer recall. And so I drowsed into oblivion.

So they herd sheep with wolves in Buck these days

A moment ago you spoke of love without need. To sate your need without love is theft.

The most reasonable place to end a book is where the next story would begin.

To confront finally the worst there is, to look it squarely in the face and say, 'I know you. You have hurt me, almost to death, but still, I live. And I will go on living.