Quotes by Robin Hobb

“I lied to hurt you. For letting him be dead while you lived. For being loved by him more than he loved me!He loved you more than he ever loved any of the rest of us!”

“Those were some astounding lies, cub. And the very last one the most inspired of all. You have your father's talent for it.”

“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.”

“...there was no point in sighing after what I could not have. It only distracted me from what I did have.”

“Why does the forbidden always add that edge of sweetness?”

“If all of her was not enough for him, then let him have none of her and seek what he needed elsewhere.”

“...some secrets beg to be betrayed. The secret of undeclared love is like that.”

“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.”

“...once students have been taught that learning is tedious, difficult, and useless, they will never learn another lesson.”

“Stop longing.You poison todays ease, reaching always for tomorrow.”

“Perhaps there can be no thanks nor any blame, but only recognition of the forces that brought us and bound us to our inevitable fates.”

“I truly wanted to live a life in which I could make my own choices, independent of the 'duties' of my birth and position. It was only when fate granted that to me that I realized the cost of it. I ...”

“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...”

“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.”

“As long as you believe it is impossible, you close your mind to understanding it.”

“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.”