Robin Hobb Quotes
There is nothing dishonorable about abandoning pain. Sometimes peace is most quickly found when a man simply stops avoiding it.
And the world re-ordered itself around me. I spoke each word carefully. 'You are so stupid.
Had she learned to feel again, only to have to feel this? Could any amount of love ever be worth the pain of losing it?
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.
When has been disappointed for so long, hope becomes the enemy. One cannot be dashed to the earth unless one is lifted first, and I learned to avoid hope.
Leave old pains alone. When they cease coming to call, do not invite them back.
It is the nature of human that we tend to pass our pain along. As if we could get rid of it by inflicting an equal hurt on someone else.
Isn't it strange how wise counsel can cool the hottest head? He made sense but my heart screamed protest.
We were both smiling, in that bittersweet way one does when imagining something the heart longs for and the head would dread.
It was as if I had been following a narrow trail, and had suddenly realized that at any time I could leave it and strike out cross-country.
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.
Suspense was an excellent tool for keeping powerful people off balance. It gave one bargaining power.
One way to disperse fear and create decision was to consider the worst possible outcome of one's actions.
As much as I had always longed to be freed of my duties and obligations, being released from such bonds was as much a severing as an emancipation.
There was a danger in asking too much of a child, but the danger of asking too little was almost equal.
I will always take your part, Bee. Right or wrong. That is why you must always take care to be right, lest you make your father a fool.
Why must it be one or the other?' she countered. 'You are both a capable seaman and the son of a Bingtown Trader. Why should not I have both sets of skill?
That destiny is not reserved for a few chosen ones. Each man has a destiny. Recognizing it and fulfilling it are the purpose of a man's life.
Many great ideas are not unique. They only become unique when the men who have the wherewithal actually to implement them come together.
Fool, there is no sense in trying to play that game with the past. Here is where we are today, and we can only make our moves from here.
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.
Some part of me knew that was important. That once it would have mattered terribly to me.
For he was the Fool now, all of Lord Chance and Lady Amber and Lord Golden scraped away by sorrow. He was no one's Beloved now.
...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.
As dye soaks fibres, drawn into them to change their colour forever, so does a memory, stinging or sweet, change the fibre of a man’s character.
Every small, unselfish action nudges the world into a better path. An accumulation of small acts can change the world.
I was lonely, and a lonely heart has hungers that can overpower both common sense and dignity.
They were all gone now, broken or taken by people who had no idea what such items represented. Let them go. She held the past in her heart, with no need of physical items to tie it down.
...there was no point in sighing after what I could not have. It only distracted me from what I did have.
If all of her was not enough for him, then let him have none of her and seek what he needed elsewhere.
...some secrets beg to be betrayed. The secret of undeclared love is like that.
...once students have been taught that learning is tedious, difficult, and useless, they will never learn another lesson.
Perhaps there can be no thanks nor any blame, but only recognition of the forces that brought us and bound us to our inevitable fates.
As long as you believe it is impossible, you close your mind to understanding it.
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
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.
And what do you believe?”A slow smile spread over his face. “I believe in you. You are my new beginning.
Somehow, " she said coldly, "you have confused profitable and not profitable for right and wrong. I, however, have not.
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.
How often does a man know, without question, that he has done well? I do not think it happens often in anyone's life, and it becomes even rarer once one has a child.
I lied to hurt you. For letting him be dead while you lived. For being loved by him more than he loved me!He loved you more than he ever loved any of the rest of us!
Those were some astounding lies, cub. And the very last one the most inspired of all. You have your father's talent for it.
Stop your whining. If you are frightened, be silent. Whining is for prey. It attracts predators. And you are not prey.