727 Quotes by Robin Hobb

Little Brother, do not treat me as if I am already dead, or dying. If you see me that way, then I would rather truly be dead. You steal the now of my life away, when you constantly fear that tomorrow will bring my death. Your fears clutch cold at me and snatch all my pleasure in the day's warmth from me.

Why do you chop your life into bits and give the bits names? Hours, days. It is like a rabbit. If I kill a rabit, I eat a rabbit. When you have a rabbit, you chop it up and call it bones and meat and fur and guts. And so you never have enough.

Ota kissa syliin. Tuntuu paremmalta.

Zo! We hebben na vijftien jaar eindelijk weer een echte Ziener op de troon?

We all perish in our last attempt to live.

The wisest man takes the shortest path to peace with himself.

Writing and reading fiction is, I think, a human effort to make sense of the world.

I wonder if I can write this history, or if on every page there will be some sneaking show of a bitterness I thought long dead. I think myself cured of all spite, but when I touch pen to paper, the hurt of a boy bleeds out with the sea-spawned ink, until I suspect each carefully formed black letter scabs over some ancient scarlet wound.

I actually think that short stories transfer to film much better than novels do.