727 Quotes by Robin Hobb

We are as we are. How can you claim to know what life I was meant to lead, let alone threaten to force me into it? All your quibbling is nonsense. As well forbid your nose to snuff, or your ears to hear. We are as we do.

I know you think me foolish, but then, I am the Fool. You know then I must be Foolish.

Here we do not believe in wasting time simply for the purpose of impressing others.

You can wait a very long time for them to give you your freedom. Taking it might be faster.

Dying is boring, Nighteyes observed.

Sometimes, it would be much easier to die for one's king than to give one's life for him.

...To free humanity of time. For time is the great enslaver of us all. Time that ages us, time that limits us. Think how often you have wished to have more time for something, or wished you could go back a day and do something differently. When humanity is freed of time, old wrongs can be corrected before they are done.

I thought we had lost you. I thought we'd done something worse than let you die.' His old arms were tight and strong about me. I was kind to the old man. I did not tell him they had.

How do you politely explain to someone that you had believed for years he was a moron as well as a Fool? Fitz in Assassin's Apprentice