727 Quotes by Robin Hobb

Stop longing. You poison today’s ease, reaching always for tomorrow.

Assassins take no pride in fighting fairly. We take pride in winning.

Fool, there is no sense in trying to play that game with the past. Here is where we are today, and we can only make our moves from here.

I feared my own kind more than anything the natural world could ever threaten me with.

Leave old pains alone. When they cease coming to call, do not invite them back.

They were all gone now, broken or taken by people who had no idea what such items represented. Let them go. She held the past in her heart, with no need of physical items to tie it down.

...some secrets beg to be betrayed. The secret of undeclared love is like that.

We were both smiling, in that bittersweet way one does when imagining something the heart longs for and the head would dread.

Strange, how being left out of a secret always feels like a betrayal of trust.