727 Quotes by Robin Hobb

Vultures and peacocks might both have feathers and beaks, but one did not confuse the two creatures.

Even now. Even when I feel like most of me is dead, life breaks through sometimes. Food tastes good. Or something Per says makes me laugh. A hot cup of tea when I’m cold and wet. I’ve thought of ending my life, Fool. I admit it. But always, no matter the damage to it, the body tries to go on. And if it manages to, then the mind follows it. Eventually, no matter how I try to deny it, there are bits of my life that are still sweet. A conversation with an old friend. Things I am still glad to have.

But that is not true for all folk. Some folk are meant to argue with fate. And win.

A message is not delivered until it is understood.

Be the night. Not the wind that stirs the trees, not even the soundless owl a-wing or the tiny mouse crouched motionless. Be the night that flows over all, touching without being felt. For night is a cat.

I could do as my father did: that is, lift my eyes and meet her gaze and let nothing of what I was thinking show in my face.

There is no such thing as an extraordinary coincidence. There is only destiny.

Her nakedness was not vulnerability, but armour.

Perhaps the greatest thing one can discover is that you can decide who you are. You don’t have to be whom the Ludlucks made you. You don’t even have to be who you were before that. You can choose. We are all creatures of our own devising.