Home > Author > Robin Hobb
121 " One does not have to be Witted to know the companionship of a beast, and to know that the friendship of an animal is every bit as rich and complicated as that of a man or woman. "
― Robin Hobb , Assassin's Quest (Farseer Trilogy, #3)
122 " I don't want to have these burdens. But I can't bear to turn them over to anyone else, either. Because, despite all the work, I like being in control of my own life. "
― Robin Hobb , Ship of Destiny (Liveship Traders, #3)
123 " There is a dead spot in the night, that coldest, blackest time when the world has forgotten evening and dawn is not yet a promise. A time when it is far too early to arise, but so late that going to bed makes small sense. "
124 " I think I made a better boy than I do a man, I admitted ruefully to the wolf. Why not wait until you've been at it a bit longer and then decide? he suggested. "
125 " I feared my own kind more than anything the natural world could ever threaten me with. "
126 " The fight isn't over until you win. "
― Robin Hobb , Royal Assassin (Farseer Trilogy, #2)
127 " The word of a cat is not to be relied upon. "
― Robin Hobb , Fool's Quest (The Fitz and The Fool, #2)
128 " It's not the sort of thing one asks of a friend. He hasn't offered, and I will not ask it. I will not tear him that way. I am trying to let go. I don't know how. "
― Robin Hobb , Assassin's Fate (The Fitz and the Fool, #3)
129 " Had they been dogs they would have sniffed me over and then drawn back. But humans have no such inbred courtesies. "
― Robin Hobb , Assassin's Apprentice (Farseer Trilogy, #1)
130 " Besides, if there were no dragons of flesh and blood and fire, whence would come the idea for these stone carvings? "
131 " Dragons don't bother with introductions. "
132 " I wanted us to share all our lives. You wish to keep me in a box, separate from your life. I cannot be someone you come to when you have nothing more important to do. "
133 " But in my heart, when I said “my king,” I meant Verity. "
134 " A terrible premonition washed over me. This was how the whole world would end.... They would devour the forest and excrete piles of buildings made of stone wrenched from the earth or from dead trees. They would hammer paths of bare stone between their dwellings, and dirty the rivers and subdue the land until it could recall only the will of man. They could not stop themselves from doing what they did. They did not see what they did, and even if they saw, they did not know how to stop. They no longer knew what was enough. "
― Robin Hobb , Shaman's Crossing (Soldier Son, #1)
135 " That is one thing that in all my years among your folk I have never become accustomed to. The great importance that you attach to what gender one is. "
136 " And like a child, I'd be testing the people who loved me, pulling away from them almost for the sole reason of seeing if anyone would come after me. "
― Robin Hobb , Fool's Assassin (The Fitz and The Fool Trilogy, #1)
137 " When you want a thing so badly for so long, and then it comes time to face that you cannot have it, sometimes—’‘Sometimes you can’t believe it when it comes to you. Sometimes you’re afraid to believe it. I understand your hesitation. "
138 " When you cut pieces out of the truth to avoid looking like a fool, you end up sounding like a moron instead. "
139 " Perhaps once one realised how deeply one could bond with a creature as foreign as a dragon, all forms of human love seemed more acceptable. "
― Robin Hobb , Blood of Dragons (Rain Wild Chronicles, #4)
140 " Did you feel that?' I asked him.He smiled sadly. 'Fitz, I have never needed to touch you to feel that. It was always there. No limits. "