727 Quotes by Robin Hobb

This terrible event – whatever it was – is over and done. Cling to it and let it shape you and you are doomed to live it forever. You are granting it power over you. Set it aside, and shape your future as you wish it to be, in spite of what happened to you. Then you have seized control of it.

The weapon we throw away today is the one at our throats tomorrow.

He spoke solemnly. “This is our last hunt, old wolf. And as we always have, we go to it together.

There is, in all honesty, no way to kill someone mercifully. There are those who count it no crime to drown an imperfect newborn in warm water, as if the infant will not struggle desperately to draw air into its lungs. Did it not try to breathe, it would not drown. But they do not hear the screams nor feel the darkening of the mind that the child endures, so they have been merciful. To themselves. This is true of most “mercy killings.

How much do you understand?’ I demanded of her one afternoon. She cocked her head at me, met my gaze and demanded, ‘How much do YOU understand?

There can be no misunderstandings if there are no understandings at all.

The fight isn’t over until you win it, Fitz. That’s all you have to remember. No matter what the other man says.

Sometimes it is easier to pull a knife out of a man than to ask him to forget words you have uttered.

Some people say ‘I want to be a writer,’ and some people say, ‘I want to write.’