Quotes by Robin Hobb

“Stop your whining. If you are frightened, be silent. Whining is for prey. It attracts predators. And you are not prey.”

“It was better to leave the space empty of words than to choose the wrong ones.”

“She is, Althea thought uneasily, what I pretend to be: a woman who does not let her sex deter her from living as she pleases.”

“He shook his head pityingly. “This, more than anything else, is what I have never understood about your people. You can roll dice, and understand that the whole game may hinge on one turn of a die....”

“...I've returned and I look around me and think, I've missed my life. While I was off and alone, it went on here, without me, and I'm forever doomed to be a stranger in my own home.”

“Assassins take no pride in fighting fairly. We take pride in winning.”

“There are few things so tender as a man's dignity.”

“and to die with the Warrior's Prayer on his lips. For, 'Yes', he had sighed on his dying breath, and all knew that was the ultimate prayer one could offer to life. Acceptance.”

“Think of what is and don't let what might have been distract you.”

“Open your eyes. This horrible mess is your life. There is no sense in waiting for it to get better. Stop putting it off and live it.”

“A while later, I lingered in the hinterlands of sleep. Sometimes I think there is more rest in that place between wakefulness and sleep than there is in true sleep. The mind walks in the twilight o...”

“I was dying. And I had never been enough for anything.”

“Regrets are useless, " the Fool replied. "All you can do is start from where you are.”

“Despite my pain, I felt not the regret of an ending, but the foreboding of a beginning.”

“If he ever wanted vengeance on me for all I did, he has it now. This is the worst thing he could do to me. Now I know how it feels to be left behind. As I left him.”

“As if he hadn't always known he was loved the best. That he was the Beloved.”

“His face was so ravaged, it was like looking at death itself. Except for the smooth, silvered part of it. By creeping degrees, his human hand lifted. He turned it over, showing a bloody palm. His c...”

“I could not make it right, but I could make someone pay for how wrong it had been.”

“This was misery that could not yield, for he sorrowed for a time he could not return to, and a self he would never again be.”

“One does not have to be Witted to know the companionship of a beast, and to know that the friendship of an animal is every bit as rich and complicated as that of a man or woman.”