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Quotes About Choice

It was as if I had been following a narrow trail, and had suddenly realized that at any time I could leave it and strike out cross-country.
~ Robin Hobb
The future cannot take from us the days we have left…unless we let it. p. 46 The Fool to Fitz
~ Robin Hobb
Não tem de ser assim tão ruim - disse Breu calmamente. - A maior parte das nossas prisões é criada por nós mesmos. Um homem também faz a própria liberdade.
~ Robin Hobb
You can roll dice, and understand that the whole game may hinge on one turn of a die. You deal out cards, and say that all a man's fortune for the night may turn upon one hand. But a man's whole life, you sniff at, and say, what, this nought of a human, this fisherman, this carpenter, this thief, this cook, why, what can they do in the great wide world? And so you putter and sputter your lives away, like candles burning in a draught.
~ Robin Hobb
Your mother was a good mate for Fitz. She gave him what he needed. But this is the woman I would have chosen for us.
~ Robin Hobb
There's a difference between thinking an action is wise and doing it.
~ Robin Hobb
Tell him to turn away from death and choose life. Choose struggle and toil and pain and lovely, lovely life.
~ Robin Hobb
Existuje místo, kde veÅ¡kerý ?as je nyní a vÅ¡echny volby prosté a vždycky tvé vlastní.
~ Robin Hobb
For some things, there is no forgiving or unforgiving. They are simply a crossroads, and a direction taken, whether I would or no. Someone else set my feet on that path. All I can control is every step I take after that.
~ Robin Hobb
My life has become too heavy with purpose. I cannot remember the last time I did something simply because I wanted to do it.
~ Robin Hobb
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.
~ Robin Hobb
I don't finish books I don't like. There's too many good ones out there waiting to be found.
~ Robin Hobb
Most prisons are of our own making. A man makes his own freedom, too
~ Robin Hobb
The pain was just a part of all that. I had lives before this one, and they are just as much mine as this. I can take all my pasts, keep them and determine my own future. I don't have to be what anyone made me, Brashen. I can be Paragon.
~ Robin Hobb
Do not you sense it? A crossroads, a vertex, a vortex. All paths change from here.
~ Robin Hobb
I know you think it slatternly, the way I am with men. But once you have been forced, it is … different. Ever after. I say to myself, well, I know that it can happen to me at any time. So this way, at least I decide with whom and when. There will never be children for me, and hence there will never be a permanent man. So why should not I take my pick of what I can have?
~ Robin Hobb
Don't do what you can't undo, until you've considered what you can't do once you've done it.
~ Robin Hobb
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.
~ Robin Hobb
No hagas lo que no puedas deshacer, hasta que hayas considerado lo que no podrás deshacer cuando lo hayas hecho.
~ Robin Hobb
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. Am I right?
~ Robin Hobb
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?
~ Robin Hobb
Vindeliar told me he could feel when he was on the true Path. Well, I feel mine now. It feels right, Prilkop." "So many things do when they are the things we want to do.
~ Robin Hobb
But then, you probably have a greater variety of memories to choose from...One does not gather many unique memories, hauled out on a beach.
~ Robin Hobb
Just because a man can do a thing does not mean he should do a thing.
~ Robin Hobb