Quotes from Robin Hobb

Regrets are useless, " the Fool replied. "All you can do is start from where you are.

One devoted to his cat would not leave it long alone. A cat's loyalty is not a thing to be taken for granted, but courted day by day.

Strange, how being left out of a secret always feels like a betrayal of trust.

Silent," the carved wizardwood on his wrist breathed. "Silent as a blinded ship, floating hull-up in the sea. Silent as a scream underwater.

Time is an unkind teacher, delivering lessons that we learn far too late for them to be useful.

Silence asks the questions that are too awkward to phrase. It even asks the questions one does not know to ask.

I felt a familiar squeezing in what I thought must be my heart. I had heard of being "heartbroken" or "heavy-hearted" but I had never known it was an actual sensation one felt when the whole world abandons you

Drink up your false courage and move forward. It's the only direction a man can move in.

It's not the kind of work a man does that says he can be proud or not. It's how he does it.

It is the nature of humans that we tend to pass our pain along. As if we could get rid of it by inflicting an equal hurt on someone else.

Do not agonize about yesterday. Do not borrow tomorrow's trouble. Let your heart hunt. Rest in the now.

I don't know" "When a man says that, it usually means, "No, I won't but from time to time, I'll toy with the idea, so I can pretend i eventually intend to do it.

Open your eyes. This horrible mess is your life. There is no sense in waiting for it to get better. Stop putting it off and live it.

As if he hadn't always known he was loved the best. That he was the Beloved.

It is like being two foreigners, trapped in a land we have come to, unable to return to our own, and having only each other to confirm the reality of the place we once lived.

As long as you believe it is impossible, you close your mind to understanding it.

Refuse the anxiety. When you borrow trouble against what might be, you neglect the moment you have now to enjoy. The man who worries about what will next be happening to him loses this moment in dread of the next, and poisons the next with pre-judgment.

Instead, we must focus on our hopes. If we cannot anchor ourselves in a belief that we will succeed, we have already been defeated.

King Shrewd is expecting me, rather he isn't expecting me, and that is precisely why I must go to him now.

None of us ever know what we are choosing when we choose life. If certainty is so important to you, than you should have chosen to be dead. That is a certain thing.

Leave old pains alone. When they cease coming to call, do not invite them back.

How different would our perception of reality be if... we discarded the mundane events that cannot coexist with our dreams?

when you let go and follow your fate instead of trying to twist your life around and master it, a man finds that happiness follows him.

Love is more than bedding, boy. If love doesn't come first and linger after, if love can't wait and endure disappointment and separation, then it's not love. Love doesn't require bedding to make it true. It doesn't even demand day-to-day contact. I know this because I have known love, many kinds of love, and amongst them, I've know what I felt for you.