Robin Hobb, Golden Fool Quotes
To be part of a family, or any community, is to have duties and responsibility, to be bound by the rules of that group.
We were both smiling, in that bittersweet way one does when imagining something the heart longs for and the head would dread.
Strange, how being left out of a secret always feels like a betrayal of trust.
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.
...You won't even see what is put right on the table before you. Men. If it was raining soup you'd be out there with a fork.
...some secrets beg to be betrayed. The secret of undeclared love is like that.
Still I promise myself, "Next time I will do better" in the all-too-human conceit that I will always be offered a "next time.
