727 Quotes by Robin Hobb

The white prophet Gerda was barely twenty when she set out into the world to find her Catalyst. She had dreamed of her often since she was an infant. She travelled far from the peaceful green lands of her birth, going both by sea and by land, to a village far in the mountains where a peak smoked in the distance and glowed red at night.

Horns not grown, he swings his head in warning and still all take heed.

Fitz, you are angry. I can feel it like storm waves lashing my shores.

It is hard for loneliness to gaze on happiness.

There is power in the keeping of a secret, and power in the revelation of a secret. Sometimes it takes very wise man to discern which is the path to greater power.

It is hard to write down a story that has no sequence or sense, let alone make a picture of what my dream showed me.

If a man hits you once, he’ll hit you again, they say. And the same is true for lying. But I stayed, and I listened and I believed. What a fool I’ve been!

Who had that young man been who had thought himself so old and worldly-wise? He was a stranger to me now.

My dream was dead in my arms.