Quotes by Robin Hobb

Think of what is and dont let what might have been distract you.

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.

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.

I was dying. And I had never been enough for anything.

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

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

If he ever wanted vengeance on me for all I did, he has it now. This is the worst thing he could do to me. Now I know how it feels to be left behind. As I left him.

As if he hadnt always known he was loved the best. That he was the Beloved.

His face was so ravaged, it was like looking at death itself. Except for the smooth, silvered part of it. By creeping degrees, his human hand lifted. He turned it over, showing a bloody palm. His cracked lips moved. Beloved.He could not say the word, but I knew it. So did his Fool.

His face was so ravaged, it was like looking at death itself. Except for the smooth, silvered part of it. By creeping degrees, his human hand lifted. He turned it over, showing a bloody palm. His cracked lips moved. Beloved.He could not say the word, but I knew it. So did his Fool.

I could not make it right, but I could make someone pay for how wrong it had been.

This was misery that could not yield, for he sorrowed for a time he could not return to, and a self he would never again be.

One does not have to be Witted to know the companionship of a beast, and to know that the friendship of an animal is every bit as rich and complicated as that of a man or woman.

When the mainstay of ones world is taken away, its only natural to cling to all the rest, to try desperately to keep things as close to the way they were as one can. He shook his head sorrowfully. But no one can ever go back to yesterday.

I dont want to have these burdens. But I cant bear to turn them over to anyone else, either. Because, despite all the work, I like being in control of my own life.

Why not break free now, and make Bingtown a place where folk begin anew, all men standing on an equal footing?And all women, too.She must be Sparses daughter, thought Keffria. Even her voice echoed his in tone. Devouchet looked at her in surprise.It was but a manner of speaking, Ekke, he said mildly.A manner of speaking becomes a manner of thinking.

There is a dead spot in the night, that coldest, blackest time when the world has forgotten evening and dawn is not yet a promise. A time when it is far too early to arise, but so late that going to bed makes small sense.

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

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

I must talk to Kennit first. He will tell me when he is ready for us to have a baby.Never, Bolt said flatly.What?Never wait for a male on any such decision. You are the queen. You decide. Males are not made for such decisions. I have seen it time and time again. They would have you wait for days of sunshine and wealth and plenty. Yet to a male, enough is never sufficient, and plenty never reached. A queen knows that when times are hardest and game most scarce, that is when one must care most about the continuance of the race. Some things are not for males to decide.