Quotes by Robin Hobb

“For the weakest has but to try his strength to find it, and then he shall be strong.”

“A woman of many talents. And intelligent, too. He'd probably have to kill her soon.”

“I was amazed at how strong women were when they were angry.”

“But change proves that you are still alive. Change often measures our tolerance for folk different from ourselves. Can we accept their languages, their customs, their garments, and their foods into...”

“Life is not a race to restore a past situation. Nor does one have to hurry to meet the future. Seeing how things change is what makes life interesting.”

“One way to disperse fear and create decision was to consider the worst possible outcome of one's actions.”

“The world had to change and for some reason the prosperity of men always results in them taking ever more from wild creatures and places.”

“...it's strange, isn't it, how you don't know how big a part of you someone is until they're threatened? And then you think you can't possibly go on if something happens to them, but the most frigh...”

“Like a flower pressed flat and dried, we try to hold it still and say, this is exactly how it was the day I first saw it. But like the flower, the past cannot be trapped that way. It loses its frag...”

“I can see that you go through life athwart it. You see the flow of events, you are able to tell how you could most easily fit yourself into it. But you dare to oppose it. And why? Simply because yo...”

“That part of your life is over. Set it aside as something you have finished. Complete or no, it is done with you. No being gets to decide what his life is "supposed to be"...'Be a man. Discover whe...”

“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.”

“There are always choices. But sometimes there are no good ones.”

“Many great ideas are not unique. They only become unique when the men who have the wherewithal actually to implement them come together.”

“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.”

“One must plan for the future and anticipate the future without fearing the future.”

“There is no path to the future, Fitz. The path is now. Now is all there is, or ever will be. You can change perhaps the next breaths in your life. But after that, random chance seizes you in its ja...”

“The knowledge that he had left me with no intent ever to return had come over me in tiny droplets of realization spread over the years. And each droplet of comprehension brought its own small measu...”

“I once knew of a minstrel who bragged of having had a thousand women, one time each. He would never know what I knew, that to have one woman a thousand times, and each time find in her a different ...”

“The death of Nighteyes gutted me. I walked wounded through my life in the days that followed, unaware of just how mutilated I was. I was like the man who complains of the itching of his severed leg...”