Quotes by Robin Hobb

“It is worse than useless to do things halfway Bee, for then you think the work is done, but someone must come behind you later to do it all over again. Even if you must work much harder and get les...”

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

“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 thought perhaps it was a woman's way, to come out of such a storm of emotion and pain as if she were a ship emerging onto calm seas. She had seemed, not at peace, but emptied of sorrow. As if sh...”

“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.”

“There is nothing dishonorable about abandoning pain. Sometimes peace is most quickly found when a man simply stops avoiding it.”

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

“Leave off sniffing the carcass of your old life-do you enjoy unending pain? There is no shame in walking away from bones. Nor is there any special wisdom in injuring oneself over and over. What is ...”

“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.”

“Life is a balance. We tend to forget that as we go blithely from day to day. We eat and drink and sleep and assume we will always rise up the next day, that meals and rest will always replenish us....”

“Love isn't just about feeling sure of the other person, knowing what he would give up for you. It's knowing with certainty what you are willing to surrender for his sake. Make no mistake; each part...”

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

“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.”

“Men of passion and vision are often seen as mad.”