727 Quotes by Robin Hobb

Maybe you have to keep your pain and loss to know that you can survive whatever life deals you. Perhaps without putting your pain in its place in your life, you became something of a coward.

As you will, King Fitz.

The separate parts of my life became like beads and I the string that ran through them all. I believe if I had ever paused to consider the intricacy of all I did to keep those parts separate, I would have found it impossible. But I was young then, much younger than I suspected, and somehow I found the energy and time to do and be it all.

Bee. Nothing happens to you. You happen to everything.

It was not that these emotions were unworthy or inappropriate; it was simply that they were wasted upon the man.

For time is the great enslaver of us all.

Now, anyone with two thoughts in their mind can see that no future is set in stone. An infinite number of futures bud at the end of every moment, and each one of them can be changed by a falling rose petal.

To Fitz and the Fool, my best friends for over twenty years.

I was sick of strife, and weary of being wary.