Robin Hobb, Fool's Quest Quotes

The world had to change and for some reason the prosperity of men always results in them taking ever more from wild creatures and places.

In the dead of night I stirred. Wakefulness flowed back into me. I was a cup full of sorrow, but that sorrow was stilled, like a pain that abates as long as one does not move.

Isn't it strange how wise counsel can cool the hottest head? He made sense but my heart screamed protest.

Be very chary of telling your hoarded secrets. Many lose all power once they have been divulged.

There would always be dishonorable things done to preserve the honor of any power.

Everything she sang was true. I will leave it to you as to whether the truth can exist with details omitted, or if those lacks make a lie of it.

Assassins take no pride in fighting fairly. We take pride in winning.

Think of what is and don't let what might have been distract you.

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.

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