Robin Hobb Quotes

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

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

Leave the pain behind and let your life be your own again. There is a place where all time is now, and the choices are simple and always your own. Wolves have no kings

There is little in life so reassuring as a genuine welcome.

Stop longing.You poison today’s ease, reaching always for tomorrow.

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

Tomorrow owes you the sum of your yesterdays. No more than that. And no less.

Diplomacy is the velvet glove that cloaks the fist of power.

Look forward, not back. Correct your course and go on. You cannot undo yesterday's journey.

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

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.

Cats talk to whomever they please.

I never confuse the cost of something with its value

Silence can ask all the questions, where the tongue is prone to ask only the wrong one.

Perhaps having the courage to find a better path is having the courage to risk making new mistakes.

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

The man who must brag for himself knows that no one else will

Your future. It awaits only you, to live it and to write it. - Shaman's Crossing by Robin Hobb

How different would our perception of reality be if... we discarded the mundane events that cannot coexist with our dreams?

Someday is someday, and maybe it will be or maybe it won't. This is a human thing, to worry about things that may or may not come to be. You can't eat meat until you've killed it.

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

When considering a man's motives, remember you must not measure his wheat with your bushel. He may not be using the same standard at all.

What a man can take with a sword, a woman can give by her flesh alone. Life.

In real life, things don't all end at the nice same place. To keep the story real, there has to be kind of a ragged edge at the end of a novel.

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

if love doesnt come first and linger after, if love cant wait and endure disappointment and seperation, then its not love.

Death is not the opposite of life, but the opposite of choice.

For, "Yes," he had sighed on his dying breath, and all knew that was the ultimate prayer one could offer to life.

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

I think that old magic draws much of its strength from that acknowledgment: that we are a part of that world.

Men of passion and vision are often seen as mad.

One must plan for the future and anticipate the future without fearing the future.

You seek a false comfort when you demand that I define myself for you with words. Words do not contain or define any person. A heart can, if it is willing.

One can only walk so far from one's true self before the bond either snaps, or pulls one back.

The fight isn't over until you win it, Fitz. That's all you have to remember. No matter what the other man says.

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

Thinking is not always...comforting. It is always good, but not always comforting. Royal Assassin

Most prisons are of our own making. A man makes his own freedom, too.

Silent," the carved wizardwood on his wrist breathed. "Silent as a blinded ship, floating hull-up in the sea. Silent as a scream underwater.

Start writing sooner. Don't wait for permission. Don't hesitate.

I was dressed up as a witch for Halloween, and wanted to write a story about my black cat before I went out trick-or-treating. I think it went out with the trash the next day.

It's all connected. When you save any part of the world, you've saved the whole world. In fact, that's the only way it can be done.

the greatest danger is always the one we are ignorant of.

I am the King's Fool. He is the King-In-Wating. Let him wait.

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

The fight isn't over until you win.

Men cannot grieve as dogs do. But they grieve for many years.

Life is not a race to restore a past situation. Nor does one have to hurry to meet the future. Seeing how things change is what makes life interesting.

To be part of a family, or any community, is to have duties and responsibility, to be bound by the rules of that group.

One had a knife. But I had a staff and was trained to use it.