727 Quotes by Robin Hobb

He gave a final shake of his coat. ‘I go to the hunt!

There is nothing dishonorable about abandoning pain. Sometimes peace is most quickly found when a man simply stops avoiding it.” He shifted slightly in the dark. “And you never again lay awake all night, staring at darkness and thinking of them.

All memories are connected, and like a man’s skin, they can heal. In time, left to themselves, those memories would have stopped hurting you. You may someday wish you could call up that pain.

Cats themselves may be very chatty, but they seem to resent it in anyone else. Cats like listeners.

Death could make things stop, but it could not make things right.

How strange to be loved simply for who I was.

That is true. I could not prevent what was done to me, nor can I change what people made of me. But I know what I am and have decided to continue being what I am.

It was well to impress one’s enemies with a show of strength. It was even better to be sure one’s friends remembered it as well.

His heart had pounded with joy at the thought that he might catch her, might playfully hold her in his arms, for just a moment. They were children, I suddenly saw, children at play, only a handful of years older than I was now. They had never grown older, neither one of them, not really. All their lives she had remained that girl to him, that wondrous girl just a few years older than he was, but so worldly wise, so female to all that was so male in his life.