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Robin Hobb QUOTES

1 " Everyone thinks that courage is about facing death without flinching. But almost anyone can do that. Almost anyone can hold their breath and not scream for as long as it takes to die.

True courage is about facing life without flinching. I don't mean the times when the right path is hard, but glorious at the end. I'm talking about enduring the boredom, the messiness, and the inconvenience of doing what is right. "

― Robin Hobb , The Mad Ship (Liveship Traders, #2)

2 " That is the challenge Companion. To take what has happened to you and learn from it. Nothing is quite so destructive as pity, especially self-pity. No event in life is so terrible that one cannot rise above it.
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― Robin Hobb , Ship of Destiny (Liveship Traders, #3)

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

― Robin Hobb , Assassin's Apprentice (Farseer Trilogy, #1)

4 " That no man can truly imagine being happy and that's why happiness isn't for sale here. "

― Robin Hobb , Ship of Magic (Liveship Traders, #1)

5 " 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 afterlife was available to me. I'd simply stop being. Apparently I hadn't died correctly. Oops. "

― Robin Hobb , Renegade's Magic (Soldier Son, #3)

6 " 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 measure of hurt...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 chosen, a thing completed even as some part of my soul still dangled, waiting for his return. "

― Robin Hobb , Fool's Assassin (The Fitz and The Fool Trilogy, #1)

7 " 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 measure of hurt. "

― Robin Hobb , Fool's Assassin (The Fitz and The Fool Trilogy, #1)

8 " 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.
There is power in the keeping of a secret, and power in the revelation of a secret. Sometimes it takes a very wise man to discern which is the path to greater power.
All men desirous of power should become collectors of secrets. There is no secret too small to be valuable. All men value their own secrets far above those of others. A scullery maid may be willing to betray a prince before allowing the name of her secret lover to be told. "

― Robin Hobb , Fool's Quest (The Fitz and The Fool, #2)

9 " 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 delight, is far better. I knew now what gleamed in the eyes of old couples when they stared at each other across a room...My familiarity with her was a more potent love elixir than any potion sold by a hedge-witch in the market. "

― Robin Hobb , Fool's Assassin (The Fitz and The Fool Trilogy, #1)

10 " 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. The itching distracts from the immense knowledge that one will forever after hobble through life. "

― Robin Hobb , Golden Fool (Tawny Man, #2)

11 " Time and tide wait for no man. "

― Robin Hobb , Assassin's Apprentice (Farseer Trilogy, #1)

12 " One had a knife. But I had a staff and was trained to use it. "

― Robin Hobb , Assassin's Apprentice (Farseer Trilogy, #1)

13 " Surprise!-FitzChivalry "

― Robin Hobb , Royal Assassin (Farseer Trilogy, #2)

14 " 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. "

― Robin Hobb , Royal Assassin (Farseer Trilogy, #2)

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

― Robin Hobb

16 " I was amazed at how strong women were when they were angry. "

― Robin Hobb , Royal Assassin (Farseer Trilogy, #2)

17 " 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 our own lives? If we can, then we form bonds, bonds that make wars less likely. If we cannot, if we believe that we must do things as we have always done them, then we must either fight to remain as we are, or die "

― Robin Hobb , Golden Fool (Tawny Man, #2)

18 " 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. "

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19 " 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. "

― Robin Hobb , Fool's Quest (The Fitz and The Fool, #2)

20 " ...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 frightening part is that, actually, you will go on, you'll have to go on, with them or without them. There's just no telling what you'll become "

― Robin Hobb , Fool's Errand (Tawny Man, #1)