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Robin Hobb Quotes | Quotes said by Robin Hobb

  • Robin Hobb Quote #1

    A terrible premonition washed over me. This was how the whole world would end.... They would devour the forest and excrete piles of buildings made of stone wrenched from the earth or from dead trees. They would hammer paths of bare stone between their dwellings, and dirty the rivers and subdue the land until it could recall only the will of man. They could not stop themselves from doing what they did. They did not see what they did, and even if they saw, they did not know how to stop. They no longer knew what was enough.


  • Robin Hobb Quote #2

    A while later, I lingered in the hinterlands of sleep. Sometimes I think there is more rest in that place between wakefulness and sleep than there is in true sleep. The mind walks in the twilight of both states, and finds the truths that are hidden alike by daylight and dreams. Things we are not ready to know abide in that place, awaiting that unguarded frame of mind.

  • Robin Hobb Quote #3

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

  • Robin Hobb Quote #4

    And what do you believe?”

    A slow smile spread over his face. “I believe in you. You are my new beginning.

  • Robin Hobb Quote #5

    Anticipating pain was like enduring it twice. Why not anticipate pleasure instead?

  • Robin Hobb Quote #6

    As dye soaks fibres, drawn into them to change their colour forever, so does a memory, stinging or sweet, change the fibre of a man’s character.

  • Robin Hobb Quote #7

    As I apologized to her a flicker of panic raced through me and then faded away. There wasn't enough life left in me to panic. I'd made a mistake and I was dying. Apparently not even a Speck afterlife was available to me. I'd simply stop being. Apparently I hadn't died correctly. Oops.

  • Robin Hobb Quote #8

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

  • Robin Hobb Quote #9

    Be a little puppet on their strings. That was what Reyn wanted from her, also. She recognized that even if he did not. He was attracted to her not just for her beauty and charm, but because she was young. He thought he could control all her actions and even her thoughts.

  • Robin Hobb Quote #10

    Boredom is vastly underrated. Boredom means that nothing is trying to kill you every day.

  • Robin Hobb Quote #11

    But change proves that you are still alive. Change often measures our tolerance for folk different from ourselves. Can we accept their languages, their customs, their garments, and their foods into our own lives? If we can, then we form bonds, bonds that make wars less likely. If we cannot, if we believe that we must do things as we have always done them, then we must either fight to remain as we are, or die

  • Robin Hobb Quote #12

    But if she is alone now, it is because she chose to be alone, not someone decree if for her. Her life is hers to live, not yours to repair.

  • Robin Hobb Quote #13

    But in my heart, when I said “my king,” I meant Verity.

  • Robin Hobb Quote #14

    Despite my pain, I felt not the regret of an ending, but the foreboding of a beginning.

  • Robin Hobb Quote #15

    Did you see how she stood and faced them down? I demanded with pride. A most excellent bitch, Nighteyes agreed.

  • Robin Hobb Quote #16

    Do you not see how strange and wonderful that is? That all history balances on an affair of the human heart?

  • Robin Hobb Quote #17

    Don't do what you can't undo, until you've considered what you can't do once you've done it.

  • Robin Hobb Quote #18

    Every small, unselfish action nudges the world into a better path. An accumulation of small acts can change the world.

  • Robin Hobb Quote #19

    For the weakest has but to try his strength to find it, and then he shall be strong.

  • Robin Hobb Quote #20

    Had they been dogs they would have sniffed me over and then drawn back. But humans have no such inbred courtesies.

  • Robin Hobb Quote #21

    He shook his head pityingly. “This, more than anything else, is what I have never understood about your people. 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 naught 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 draft.”
    “Not all men are destined for greatness,” I reminded him.
    “Are you sure, Fitz? Are you sure? What good is a life lived as if it made no difference at all to the great life of the world? A sadder thing I cannot imagine. Why should not a mother say to herself, if I raise this child aright, if I love and care for her, she shall live a life that brings joy to those about her, and thus I have changed the world? Why should not the farmer that plants a seed say to his neighbor, this seed I plant today will feed someone, and that is how I change the world today?”
    “This is philosophy, Fool. I have never had time to study such things.”
    “No, Fitz, this is life. And no one has time not to think of such things. Each creature in the world should consider this thing, every moment of the heart's beating. Otherwise, what is the point of arising each day?

  • Robin Hobb Quote #22

    His absence seemed a solid thing, a burden I must carry in addition to my grief... Yet I knew I would continue to live. Sometimes that knowledge seemed the worst part of my loss.

  • Robin Hobb Quote #23

    History is no more fixed and dead than the future. The past is no further away than the last breath you took.

  • Robin Hobb Quote #24

    Home is people. Not a place. If you go back there after the people are gone, then all you can see is what is not there any more.

  • Robin Hobb Quote #25

    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 becomes even rarer once one has a child.

  • Robin Hobb Quote #26

    I am shocked to find that some people think a 2 star 'I liked it' rating is a bad rating. What? I liked it. I LIKED it! That means I read the whole thing, to the last page, in spite of my life raining comets on me. It's a good book that survives the reading process with me. If a book is so-so, it ends up under the bed somewhere, or maybe under a stinky judo bag in the back of the van. So a 2 star from me means,yes, I liked the book, and I'd loan it to a friend and it went everywhere in my jacket pocket or purse until I finished it. A 3 star means that I've ignored friends to finish it and my sink is full of dirty dishes. A 4 star means I'm probably in trouble with my editor for missing a deadline because I was reading this book. But I want you to know . . . I don't finish books I don't like. There's too many good ones out there waiting to be found. Robin Hobb, author

  • Robin Hobb Quote #27

    I feared my own kind more than anything the natural world could ever threaten me with.

  • Robin Hobb Quote #28

    I loved that man as I have loved no one else. I do not say I loved him more than I love your mother. But that the way I loved him was different. But if you have heard there was anything improper in our bond, there was not. That was not what we were to one another. What we had went beyond that.

  • Robin Hobb Quote #29

    I should live each day as if it were significant, as if everyday the fate of the world depended on my action.

  • Robin Hobb Quote #30

    I think I made a better boy than I do a man, I admitted ruefully to the wolf.
    Why not wait until you've been at it a bit longer and then decide? he suggested.

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