727 Quotes by Robin Hobb

This is our last hunt, old wolf. And as we have always done, we go to it together.

We’d had a message from Just, the first to reach us in many a month. He and Hearth had left home almost three years ago. With youth’s fine disregard for the concerns of their elders, they’d sent messages only sporadically.

A moment ago you spoke of love without need. To sate your need without love is theft. If you ust have that, hire it done.

One man armed with the right word may do what an army of swordsmen cannot.

Somehow,” she said coldly, “you have confused profitable and not profitable for right and wrong. I, however, have not.

So grief has always seemed to me, a time of waiting not for the hurt to pass, but to become accustomed to it.

Isn’t it strange how wise counsel can cool the hottest head? He made sense but my heart screamed protest.

Such a storm of emotions as humans can evoke, all on the basis of imagination,” the dragon observed condescendingly. In a more reflective voice she asked, “Do you do this because you live such short lives? Tell yourselves wild tales of what might happen tomorrow, and feel all the feelings of events that will never happen? Perhaps to make up for the pasts you cannot recall, you invent futures that will not exist.

Oh, the power that lurks in the naming of names.