727 Quotes by Robin Hobb

I am the King’s Fool. He is the King-In-Wating. Let him wait.

For, “Yes,” he had sighed on his dying breath, and all knew that was the ultimate prayer one could offer to life.

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. As.

If the divine is also female, and the female also divine, then she understands that woman is more than mother, more than daughter, more than wife. Those are the facets of a full life, but no single facet defines the jewel.

When you borrow trouble against what might be, you neglect the moment you have now to enjoy.

Still I promise myself, “Next time I will do better” in the all-too-human conceit that I will always be offered a “next time.

Don’t go mooning after the stars, when the wide sea is all around you. It’s a sky of its own, you know.

Love isn’t just about feeling sure of the other person, knowing what he would give up for you. It’s knowing with certainty what you are willing to surrender for his sake. Make no mistake; each partner gives up something. Individual dreams are surrendered for a shared one.

The man who worries about what will next be happening to him loses this moment in dread of the next, and poisons the next with pre-judgement.