Robin Hobb Quotes

Very little worth knowing is taught by fear.

It's too late to apologize for. I have already forgiven you.

Nothing takes the heart out of a man more than the expectation of failure.

When you spring to an idea, and decide it is truth, without evidence, you blind yourself to other possibilities.

Fitz fixes fyces fitz.Fatsafices.

I do not know whom I wish to win; until I do, I will let no player be eliminated.

How do you politely explain to someone that you had believed for years he was a moron as well as a Fool?

learning is never wrong. Even learning how to kill isn't wrong. Or right. It's just a thing to learn, a thing I can teach you. That's all.

I healed. Not completely. A scar is never the same as good flesh, but it stops the bleeding.

Not being able to think of a reply is not the same thing as accepting another's words.

That is the trick of good government. To make folk desire to live in such a way that there is no need for its intervention.

What good is a life lived as if it made no difference at all to the great life of the world? - Fool

Locked into loneliness were we two and looking at one another every evening we each saw the one we blamed for it.

Fitz: Shall we get up tomorrow and go looking for a wild pig? Nighteyes: I didn’t lose any wild pigs, did you?

Useless to worry until we find outselves blocked. ... If it happens, then we must simply find a way around it. It may slow us down. But we will never get there at all if we stand still and worry.

When both my editors say 'This is really bad, you need to change this,' I ignore that at my peril.

You are confusing plumbing and love again.

No man is so dangerous as the man who cannot decide what he fears.

Sometimes it seemed to me a cruelty that so much was unresolved between us; at other times, a blessing that a hope of reunion lingered.

But a living is not a life.

King Shrewd is expecting me, rather he isn't expecting me, and that is precisely why I must go to him now.

Very little about being a writer is signing an autograph. It's sitting in a room and writing. Getting it out.

I began reading everyhing in the family library. Kidnapped, Treasure Island, Robinson Crusoe. And of course, if you're running out of books to read you can always read Shakespeare.

Fitz: How bad is it? Nighteyes: Mind your own business. Fitz: You ARE my business. Nighteyes: Sharing pain doesn’t loosen it. Fitz: I’m not sure about THAT.

If I had a dog that was sick as often as you are, I'd put it down," he observed kindly.

...sometimes it only makes one more lonely to know that somewhere else, one's friends and family are well.

Wolves have no kings.

The biggest doubts come in the five minutes after I hit send.

I thought we had lost you. I thought we'd done something worse than let you die.' His old arms were tight and strong about me. I was kind to the old man. I did not tell him they had.

The truth, I discovered, is a tree that grows as a man gains access to experience. A child sees the acorn of his daily life, but a man looks back on the oak.

No. This is right. I feel it. I am the Catalyst, and I came to change all things. Prophets become warriors, dragons hunt as wolves. Fitz in Assassin's Quest

You can be the dead fish. I'll be the old stick

THE HEIR OF NIGHT by Helen Lowe is a richly told tale of strange magic, dark treachery and conflicting loyalties, set in a well realized world.

Some people say 'I want to be a writer,' and some people say, 'I want to write.'

Her stillness was such a contrast to all the jumbled communication inside me that I suddenly felt what a tiresome fellow I was, always filling the air with the rattle of words and anxieties.

To be honest, I don't think of any of my characters as minor characters - they're all the main characters in a story that I don't necessarily get to tell.

Every writer knows a lot more about their characters and story than actually makes it onto the page.

A time when it is far too early to arise, but so late that going to bed makes small sense.

My blood will only buy you that fool's regard. I will pay a high price for you to be respected by a churl. Nothing bought with blood is worth having, young man.

I began attempting to write for children under the mistaken assumption that writing for children was easy.

That no man can truly imagine being happy and that's why happiness isn't for sale here.

It's too late to apologize for I have already forgiven you." -FitzChivalry Farseer

Surprise!-FitzChivalry

One part braggart to one part coward. He would fear everyone he did not control. And the next day he would fear those he controlled even more.

I was amazed at how strong women were when they were angry.

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.

She had come to letters late in her life, and though she had mastered them, they had never become her good friends.

Humans could never accept the world as it was and live in it. They were always breaking it and living amongst the shattered pieces.

He longed for cleanliness and tidiness: it was hard to find peace in the middle of disorder.

Acceptance of what is. That is the shortest path to peace with yourself.