727 Quotes by Robin Hobb

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.

How different would our perception of reality be if... we discarded the mundane events that cannot coexist with our dreams?

My blood will only buy you that fool's regard. I will pay a high price for you to be respected by a churl. Nothing bought with blood is worth having, young man.

If I had a dog that was sick as often as you are, I'd put it down," he observed kindly.

That is the trick of good government. To make folk desire to live in such a way that there is no need for its intervention.

The biggest doubts come in the five minutes after I hit send.

Cats talk to whomever they please.

Very little about being a writer is signing an autograph. It's sitting in a room and writing. Getting it out.

the greatest danger is always the one we are ignorant of.