Quotes by Robin Hobb

“If one bad thing befell me, I immediately linked it to every bad thing that had happened in the last week or might happen in the coming week. And when I became sad, I was prone to wallow in grief, ...”

“Fool, there is no sense in trying to play that game with the past. Here is where we are today, and we can only make our moves from here.”

“He had wished me well in finding my own fate to follow, and I never doubted his sincerity. But it had taken me years to accept that his absence in my life was a deliberate finality, an act he had c...”

“Refuse anxiety. When you borrow trouble against what might be, you neglect the moment you have now to enjoy. The man who worries about what will next be happening to him loses this moment in dread ...”

“There was a danger in asking too much of a child, but the danger of asking too little was almost equal.”

“There are endings. There are beginnings. Sometimes they coincide, with the ending of one thing marking the beginning of another. But sometimes there is simply a long space after an ending, a time w...”

“I will always take your part, Bee. Right or wrong. That is why you must always take care to be right, lest you make your father a fool.”

“It's a fine day for a prayer. But then, most days are.''That's what you were doing? Praying?' At his nod, I asked, 'For what do you petition the gods?'He raised his brows. 'Petition?''Isn't that wh...”

“She had come to letters late in her life, and though she had mastered them, they had never become her good friends.”

“Back when he had first come to the monastery, they had given him a very simple ritual called Forgiving the Day. Even the youngest child could do this; all it required was looking back over the day ...”

“History is no more fixed and dead than the future. The past is no further away than the last breath you took.”

“Strange, how being left out of a secret always feels like a betrayal of trust.”

“As dye soaks fibres, drawn into them to change their colour forever, so does a memory, stinging or sweet, change the fibre of a mans character.”

“To be part of a family, or any community, is to have duties and responsibility, to be bound by the rules of that group.”

“The days we shared I alone would remember now.I suddenly felt less real.”

“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...”

“His absence seemed a solid thing, a burden I must carry in addition to my grief... Yet I knew I would continue to live. Sometimes that knowledge seemed the worst part of my loss.”

“Leave the pain behind and let your life be your own again. There is a place where all time is now, and the choices are simple and always your own.Wolves have no kings”

“Men cannot grieve as dogs do. But they grieve for many years.”

“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.”