Quotes from Robin Hobb

The man who must brag for himself knows that no one else will

Very little worth knowing is taught by fear.

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

The fight isn't over until you win.

Nothing takes the heart out of a man more than the expectation of failure.

Tomorrow owes you the sum of your yesterdays. No more than that. And no less.

Not being able to think of a reply is not the same thing as accepting another's words.

Thinking is not always...comforting. It is always good, but not always comforting.

I healed. Not completely. A scar is never the same as good flesh, but it stops the bleeding.

Death is not the opposite of life, but the opposite of choice.

A woman of many talents. And intelligent, too. He'd probably have to kill her soon.

Stop thinking of what you intend to do. Stop thinking of what you have just done. Then, stop thinking that you have stopped thinking of those things. Then you will find the Now, the time that stretches eternal, and is really the only time there is.

Leave the pain behind and let your life be your own again. There is a place where all time is now, and the choices are simple and always your own. Wolves have no kings

When you spring to an idea, and decide it is truth, without evidence, you blind yourself to other possibilities.

It's too late to apologize for I have already forgiven you." -FitzChivalry Farseer

Too late to apologize, I've already forgiven you.

Time is an unkind teacher, delivering lessons that we learn far too late for them to be useful. Years after I could have benefited from them, the insights come to me.

Sometimes it seems unfair that events so old can reach forward through the years, sinking claws into one's life and twisting all that follows it. Yet perhaps that is the ultimate justice: we are the sum of all we have done added to the sum of all that has been done to us. There is no escaping that, not for any of us.

Wolves have no kings.

if love doesnt come first and linger after, if love cant wait and endure disappointment and seperation, then its not love.

Death is always less painful and easier than life! You speak true. And yet we do not, day to day, choose death. Because ultimately, 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.

That is the challenge Companion. To take what has happened to you and learn from it. Nothing is quite so destructive as pity, especially self-pity. No event in life is so terrible that one cannot rise above it.

When considering a man's motives, remember you must not measure his wheat with your bushel. He may not be using the same standard at all.

For, "Yes," he had sighed on his dying breath, and all knew that was the ultimate prayer one could offer to life.