727 Quotes by Robin Hobb

It was possible to be homesick for a time, and to be lonely for the only other person who could recall it.

Too much on my mind. Too many directions to think in all at once. I sometimes feel that if I had time to focus my mind on just one problem, I could solve it. And then go on to solve the others.” “Every man believes that. It isn’t so. Slay the ones you can as they come to hand, and after a while you get used to the ones you can do nothing about.

He felt her dim groping towards him, a plea for companionship and comfort. He didn’t want to give it. But he had never been a hard-hearted man. When she invaded his mind, pleading, he had to reach back. ‘You are stronger than you know,’ he told her. ‘Keep moving. Follow the other ones, my copper beauty. Soon there will be better days for you, but for now you must be strong.

Battered at my dreams like a moth trying to destroy itself in a lantern’s flame.

You see, said the wolf. He senses me. Not clearly, but he does. Hello, Fool. My ears itch. Outside the tent, the Fool reached down suddenly to scratch the wolf’s ears.

There is something about you, Etta. Something in you that cannot be quenched, by hardship or ill treatment. Your soul gleams like silver beneath a patina of hard use. He is right to love you. Any man would love you.

I have known beauties and joys that tried my heart’s strength as surely as the tragedies and uglinesses have.

It made me wish there were a place as much me as that place is you. A place I would keep as secret.

Words do not contain or define any person. A heart can, if it is willing.