Quotes from Robin Hobb

Know your heart before you do, Fitz," he added. "If you've nothing to offer her, let her go. Are you crippled? Only if you decide so. But if you're determined that you're a cripple now, then perhaps you've no right to go and seek her out.

Many men hope that by saying a thing they can make it so

But gone was gone and done was done, I told myself. And life would go on.

How often does a man know, without question, that he has done well? I do not think it happens often in anyone's life, and it become even rarer once one has a child.

I can see that this hurts you. You should fix it. You can't make it unhappen, but you don't have to carry around what they did to you. Don't give them that power over you.

To me there was no catharsis, only an unearthing of rotting corpses of memories, a baring og still suppurating wounds.

Have you ever felt as if you could actually feel time flowing away from you? As if life was passing you by and you were caught in a backwater with the dead fish and old sticks?

We who serve the Servants aid them to keep that heart beating steadily.

You should have asked me! You should have asked me!" I hated the tears that suddenly flooded my eyes and how my throat closed and choked me. I didn't want to be sad. I wanted to be angry. Angry hurt less." p. 501 Bee to Fitz

La historia de los Seis Ducados es por fuerza la historia de su familia regente, los Vatídico - Aprendiz de asesino

No one has the right to die uselessly

Amazing what folk will take comfort in when there's nothing else to hold on to.

But refusing to think about a thing only brings it more strongly to mind.

I think there is in the heart of a man a place made for wonder. It sleeps inside, awaiting fulfillment. All one's life, one gathers treasures to fill it.

Her anger was hard for me to bear, but weeping would have been worse." p. 513

Better to regret unsaid words than repent of words I could never call back.

The past had broken free of my effort to define and understand it. History is no more fixed and dead than the future. The past is no further away than the last breath you took.

A few of the other Traders who dispute that the dragons are anything but animals said that she was taking the matter too seriously, that creatures that can only communicate with some people rather than everyone should not be treated as if they are equal to humans. And then, of course, the arguments degenerated. Some demanded to know if that meant speakers of foreign languages were not full humans. Someone else quipped that surely.

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

My father may once have been an assassin. My mother remained one.

is deceived about what is offered by the other. What danger do you fear here, Tom?

Time. I was trapped in it, fenced into a tiny piece of now that was the only time I could influence. All the soons and tomorrows I might plan were ghost things that might be snatched from me at any moment. Intentions were nothing. Now was all I had.

You've the saddest song of any man I've ever known." The

She had called herself a whore. That was a man's word, a shame-word flung at a woman. But she did not seem ashamed. She wielded the word like a sword, slicing away all his preconceptions of who she was. She had earned her living by her sex, and she did not seem to regret it.