727 Quotes by Robin Hobb

Gankis lifted an arm to point at the distant shale cliffs. "And in the face of it there were thousands of little holes, little what-you-call-'ems...""Alcoves," Kennit supplied in an almost dreamy voice. "I call them alcoves, Gankis. As would you, if you could speak your own mother tongue.

No. You stop. Stop thinking you're the son your father disowned. You're not who he expected you to be; that doesn't mean you aren't somebody. Nor are you perfect. Stop using every mistake you make as an excuse to fail completely.

He thought perhaps it was a woman's way, to come out of such a storm of emotion and pain as if she were a ship emerging onto calm seas. She had seemed, not at peace, but emptied of sorrow. As if she had run out of that particular emotion and no other one arose to take its place.

I wanted us to share all our lives. You wish to keep me in a box, separate from your life. I cannot be someone you come to when you have nothing more important to do.

Humans could never accept the world as it was and live in it. They were always breaking it and living amongst the shattered pieces.

There are always choices. But sometimes there are no good ones.

But in my heart, when I said “my king,” I meant Verity.

I think that old magic draws much of its strength from that acknowledgment: that we are a part of that world.

For the weakest has but to try his strength to find it, and then he shall be strong.