Quotes by Robin Hobb

“The problem is not that we forget the past. It is that we recall it too well. Children recall wrongs that enemies did to their grandfathers, and blame the granddaughters of the old enemies. Childre...”

“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.”

“Why does the forbidden always add that edge of sweetness?”

“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.”

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

“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.”

“Gankis lifted an arm to point at the distant shale cliffs. "And in the face of it there were thousands of little holes, little what-you-call-'ems...""Alcoves," Kennit supplied in an almost dreamy v...”

“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.”

“To sate your need without love is theft”

“Somehow," she said coldly, "you have confused profitable and not profitable for right and wrong. I, however, have not.”

“I'll never miss a chance to remind you of what a brat you were. A gloriously beautiful and very spoiled brat. I was utterly charmed by your complete self-absorption. It was rather like courting a cat.”

“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.”