Quotes by Robin Hobb

“And what do you believe?A slow smile spread over his face. I believe in you. You are my new beginning.”

“It's too late to apologize for I have already forgiven you." -FitzChivalry Farseer”

“One had a knife. But I had a staff and was trained to use it.”

“Surprise!-FitzChivalry”

“Every small, unselfish action nudges the world into a better path. An accumulation of small acts can change the world.”

“I lied!' I spat my whisper at him. 'I knew you read my journal. I knew you read my dreams. I wrote there what I thought would hurt you most! I lied to hurt you. For letting him be dead while you li...”

“Some part of me knew that was important. That once it would have mattered terribly to me.”

“For he was the Fool now, all of Lord Chance and Lady Amber and Lord Golden scraped away by sorrow. He was no one's Beloved now.”

“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.”

“To sate your need without love is theft”

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

“I was lonely, and a lonely heart has hungers that can overpower both common sense and dignity.”

“...You won't even see what is put right on the table before you. Men. If it was raining soup you'd be out there with a fork.”

“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.”

“The past is no further away than the last breath you took.”

“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.”

“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.”