Robin Hobb Quotes

Regrets are useless, the Fool replied. All you can do is start from where you are.

~ Robin Hobb

Despite my pain, I felt not the regret of an ending, but the foreboding of a beginning.

~ Robin Hobb

If he ever wanted vengeance on me for all I did, he has it now. This is the worst thing he could do to me. Now I know how it feels to be left behind. As I left him.

~ Robin Hobb

As if he hadn't always known he was loved the best. That he was the Beloved.

~ Robin Hobb

His face was so ravaged, it was like looking at death itself. Except for the smooth, silvered part of it. By creeping degrees, his human hand lifted. He turned it over, showing a bloody palm. His cracked lips moved. Beloved.He could not say the word, but I knew it. So did his Fool.

~ Robin Hobb

His face was so ravaged, it was like looking at death itself. Except for the smooth, silvered part of it. By creeping degrees, his human hand lifted. He turned it over, showing a bloody palm. His cracked lips moved. 'Beloved.'He could not say the word, but I knew it. So did his Fool.

~ Robin Hobb

I could not make it right, but I could make someone pay for how wrong it had been.

~ Robin Hobb

This was misery that could not yield, for he sorrowed for a time he could not return to, and a self he would never again be.

~ Robin Hobb

One does not have to be Witted to know the companionship of a beast, and to know that the friendship of an animal is every bit as rich and complicated as that of a man or woman.

~ Robin Hobb

When the mainstay of one's world is taken away, it's only natural to cling to all the rest, to try desperately to keep things as close to the way they were as one can. He shook his head sorrowfully. But no one can ever go back to yesterday.

~ Robin Hobb

I don't want to have these burdens. But I can't bear to turn them over to anyone else, either. Because, despite all the work, I like being in control of my own life.

~ Robin Hobb

There is a dead spot in the night, that coldest, blackest time when the world has forgotten evening and dawn is not yet a promise. A time when it is far too early to arise, but so late that going to bed makes small sense.

~ Robin Hobb

I think I made a better boy than I do a man, I admitted ruefully to the wolf. Why not wait until you've been at it a bit longer and then decide? he suggested.

~ Robin Hobb

I feared my own kind more than anything the natural world could ever threaten me with.

~ Robin Hobb

The fight isn't over until you win.

~ Robin Hobb

The fight isn't over until you win it...That's all you have to remember. No matter what the other man thinks.

~ Robin Hobb

The word of a cat is not to be relied upon.

~ Robin Hobb

It's not the sort of thing one asks of a friend. He hasn't offered, and I will not ask it. I will not tear him that way. I am trying to let go. I don't know how.

~ Robin Hobb

You will live to love again. You know you have lost your springtime girl, your Molly on the beach with the wind in her brown hair and red cloak. You have been gone too long from her, and too much has befallen you both. And what you loved, what both of you truly loved, was not each other. It was the time of your life. It was the spring of your years, and life running strong in you, and war on your doorstep and your strong, perfect bodies. Look back, in truth. You will find you recall fully as many quarrels and tears as you do lovemaking and kisses. Fitz. Be wise. Let her go, and keep those memories intact. Save what you can of her, and let her keep what she can of the wild and daring boy she loved. Because both he and that merry little miss are no more than memories anymore. She shook her head. No more than memories.

~ Robin Hobb

Had they been dogs they would have sniffed me over and then drawn back. But humans have no such inbred courtesies.

~ Robin Hobb

Besides, if there were no dragons of flesh and blood and fire, whence would come the idea for these stone carvings?

~ Robin Hobb

Dragons don't bother with introductions.

~ Robin Hobb

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.

~ Robin Hobb

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

~ Robin Hobb

A terrible premonition washed over me. This was how the whole world would end.... They would devour the forest and excrete piles of buildings made of stone wrenched from the earth or from dead trees. They would hammer paths of bare stone between their dwellings, and dirty the rivers and subdue the land until it could recall only the will of man. They could not stop themselves from doing what they did. They did not see what they did, and even if they saw, they did not know how to stop. They no longer knew what was enough.

~ Robin Hobb

That is one thing that in all my years among your folk I have never become accustomed to. The great importance that you attach to what gender one is.

~ Robin Hobb

And like a child, I'd be testing the people who loved me, pulling away from them almost for the sole reason of seeing if anyone would come after me.

~ Robin Hobb

When you want a thing so badly for so long, and then it comes time to face that you cannot have it, sometimes—’‘Sometimes you can’t believe it when it comes to you. Sometimes you’re afraid to believe it. I understand your hesitation.

~ Robin Hobb

When you cut pieces out of the truth to avoid looking like a fool, you end up sounding like a moron instead.

~ Robin Hobb

Perhaps once one realised how deeply one could bond with a creature as foreign as a dragon, all forms of human love seemed more acceptable.

~ Robin Hobb

Did you feel that?' I asked him.He smiled sadly. 'Fitz, I have never needed to touch you to feel that. It was always there. No limits.

~ Robin Hobb

I wish they would all go away.Except the Fool. I wished he would join me. Somehow, I had always thought he would join me. Now, I could not recall why. Perhaps I had buried that in the stone.

~ Robin Hobb

He gave a final shake of his coat. I go to the hunt!

~ Robin Hobb

I should live each day as if it were significant, as if everyday the fate of the world depended on my action.

~ Robin Hobb

There was, she suddenly saw, many ways to be raped.

~ Robin Hobb

And so the Wolf of the West rose from the stone! And so he will rise again if ever the folk of the Six Duchies call to him in need.

~ Robin Hobb

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.

~ Robin Hobb

I am shocked to find that some people think a 2 star 'I liked it' rating is a bad rating. What? I liked it. I LIKED it! That means I read the whole thing, to the last page, in spite of my life raining comets on me. It's a good book that survives the reading process with me. If a book is so-so, it ends up under the bed somewhere, or maybe under a stinky judo bag in the back of the van. So a 2 star from me means,yes, I liked the book, and I'd loan it to a friend and it went everywhere in my jacket pocket or purse until I finished it. A 3 star means that I've ignored friends to finish it and my sink is full of dirty dishes. A 4 star means I'm probably in trouble with my editor for missing a deadline because I was reading this book. But I want you to know . . . I don't finish books I don't like. There's too many good ones out there waiting to be found. Robin Hobb, author

~ Robin Hobb

But if she is alone now, it is because she chose to be alone, not someone decree if for her. Her life is hers to live, not yours to repair.

~ Robin Hobb

Boredom is vastly underrated. Boredom means that nothing is trying to kill you every day.

~ Robin Hobb