727 Quotes by Robin Hobb

Someday is someday, and maybe it will be or maybe it won't. This is a human thing, to worry about things that may or may not come to be. You can't eat meat until you've killed it.

Not being able to think of a reply is not the same thing as accepting another's words.

But a living is not a life.

Nothing takes the heart out of a man more than the expectation of failure.

Very little worth knowing is taught by fear.

Thinking is not always...comforting. It is always good, but not always comforting. Royal Assassin

Death is not the opposite of life, but the opposite of choice.

It was hard to reconcile the drumbeats and lifted voices in the night with my memories of flames and the screams of dying men. How could humanity range so effortlessly from the sublime to the savage and back again?

All events, no matter how earthshaking or bizarre, are diluted within moments of their occurrence the the continuance of the necessary routines of day-to-day. -Fitz Most prisons are of our own making. A man makes his own freedom, too. -Chade When you cut pieces out of the truth to avoid looking like a fool, you end up sounding like a moron instead. -Burrich We left. Walking uphill and into the wind. That suddenly seemed a metaphor for my whole life. -Fitz