Quotes by Robin Hobb

“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...”

“When you cut pieces out of the truth to avoid looking like a fool you end up looking like a moron instead.”

“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.”

“As I apologized to her a flicker of panic raced through me and then faded away. There wasn't enough life left in me to panic. I'd made a mistake and I was dying. Apparently not even a Speck afterli...”

“I found myself speaking softly as if I were telling an old tale to a young child. And giving it a happy ending, when all know that tales never end, and the happy ending is but a moment to catch one...”

“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.”

“Home is people. Not a place. If you go back there after the people are gone, then all you can see is what is not there any more.”

“You," I surmised, and gestured round. "Thank you.""No," he denied. His pale hair floated out from beneath his cap in a halo as he shook his head. "But I assisted. Thank you for bathing. It makes my...”

“She had called herself a whore. That was a man's word, a shame-word flung at a woman. But she did not seem ashamed. She wielded the word like a sword, slicing away all his preconceptions of who she...”

“You want a mate who will follow your dream. You don't want to give up your own ambitions to make someone else's life possible.''I supposed that's true,' Althea admitted reluctantly. An instant late...”

“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?”

“Be a little puppet on their strings. That was what Reyn wanted from her, also. She recognized that even if he did not. He was attracted to her not just for her beauty and charm, but because she was...”

“There would always be dishonorable things done to preserve the honor of any power.”

“What is a secret? It is much more than knowledge shared with only a few, or perhaps only one another. It is power. It is a bond. It is a sign of deep trust, or the darkest threat possible.... Be ve...”

“Suspense was an excellent tool for keeping powerful people off balance. It gave one bargaining power.”

“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.”