Quotes by Robin Hobb

The fight isnt over until you win.

The fight isnt over until you win it...Thats all you have to remember. No matter what the other man thinks.

The word of a cat is not to be relied upon.

Its not the sort of thing one asks of a friend. He hasnt offered, and I will not ask it. I will not tear him that way. I am trying to let go. I dont know how.

You will live to love again. You know you have lost your springtime girl, your Molly on the beach with the wind in her brown hair and red cloak. You have been gone too long from her, and too much has befallen you both. And what you loved, what both of you truly loved, was not each other. It was the time of your life. It was the spring of your years, and life running strong in you, and war on your doorstep and your strong, perfect bodies. Look back, in truth. You will find you recall fully as many quarrels and tears as you do lovemaking and kisses. Fitz. Be wise. Let her go, and keep those memories intact. Save what you can of her, and let her keep what she can of the wild and daring boy she loved. Because both he and that merry little miss are no more than memories anymore. She shook her head. No more than memories.

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

Besides, if there were no dragons of flesh and blood and fire, whence would come the idea for these stone carvings?

Dragons dont bother with introductions.

I wanted us to share all our lives. You wish to keep me in a box, separate from your life. I cannot be someone you come to when you have nothing more important to do.

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

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.

That is one thing that in all my years among your folk I have never become accustomed to. The great importance that you attach to what gender one is.

And like a child, Id be testing the people who loved me, pulling away from them almost for the sole reason of seeing if anyone would come after me.

When you want a thing so badly for so long, and then it comes time to face that you cannot have it, sometimes—’‘Sometimes you can’t believe it when it comes to you. Sometimes you’re afraid to believe it. I understand your hesitation.

When you cut pieces out of the truth to avoid looking like a fool, you end up sounding like a moron instead.

Perhaps once one realised how deeply one could bond with a creature as foreign as a dragon, all forms of human love seemed more acceptable.

Did you feel that? I asked him.He smiled sadly. Fitz, I have never needed to touch you to feel that. It was always there. No limits.

I wish they would all go away.Except the Fool. I wished he would join me. Somehow, I had always thought he would join me. Now, I could not recall why. Perhaps I had buried that in the stone.

He gave a final shake of his coat. I go to the hunt!

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