Quotes by Robin Hobb

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…sometimes it only makes one more lonely to know that somewhere else, one’s friends and family are well.

Family And Friends

Lonely

Somewhere Else

…To free humanity of time. For time is the great enslaver of us all. Time that ages us, time that limits us. Think how often you have wished to have more time for something, or wished you could go back a day and do something differently. When humanity is freed of time, old wrongs can be corrected before they are done.

Age

Humanity

Thinking

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.

Dirty

Men

Rivers

A time when it is far too early to arise, but so late that going to bed makes small sense.

Arise

Bed

Late

A woman of many talents. And intelligent, too. He’d probably have to kill her soon.

Intelligent

Talent

Women

Ah, Beloved. Of all the things I must bid farewell to, you are the most difficult to lose. Forgive me that I have avoided you. Better, perhaps, that we make a space between us and become accustomed to it before fate forces that upon us.

Farewell

Fate

Space

Ah, Catylast, can it be that you do not see all the changes you have made? Some by your resignation and acceptance of circumstance, some by your wild struggles. You say that you hate change, but you are change. The Fool in Fool’s Fate

Fate

Hate

Struggle

All events, no matter how earthshaking or bizarre, are diluted within moments of their occurrence the the continuance of the necessary routines of day-to-day. -Fitz Most prisons are of our own making. A man makes his own freedom, too. -Chade When you cut pieces out of the truth to avoid looking like a fool, you end up sounding like a moron instead. -Burrich We left. Walking uphill and into the wind. That suddenly seemed a metaphor for my whole life. -Fitz

Cutting

Men

Wind

Anticipating pain was like enduring it twice. Why not anticipate pleasure instead?

Anticipation

Pain

Why Not

As I apologized to her a flicker of panic raced through me and then faded away. There wasn’t enough life left in me to panic. I’d made a mistake and I was dying. Apparently not even a Speck afterlife was available to me. I’d simply stop being. Apparently I hadn’t died correctly. Oops.

Afterlife

Dying

Mistake

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Able

Accepting

Afterlife

Age

Air

And Love

Anticipate

Anticipation

Anxiety

Apologizing

Arise

Asks

Assassins

Assumption

Balance

Be Kind

Bed

Believe

Bleeding

Blessing

Blind

Blood

Body

Book

Boredom

Boys

Cat

Challenges

Character

Children

Choices

Comfort

Comforting

Communication

Community

Confusing

Cost

Cutting

Danger

Dangerous

Dark

Death

Demand

Desire

Determination

Differences

Dirty

Disappointment

Dog

Done

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Quotes by Robin Hobb

Robin Hobb

…sometimes it only makes one more lonely to know that somewhere else, one’s friends and family are well.

A time when it is far too early to arise, but so late that going to bed makes small sense.

A woman of many talents. And intelligent, too. He’d probably have to kill her soon.

Ah, Beloved. Of all the things I must bid farewell to, you are the most difficult to lose. Forgive me that I have avoided you. Better, perhaps, that we make a space between us and become accustomed to it before fate forces that upon us.

Ah, Catylast, can it be that you do not see all the changes you have made? Some by your resignation and acceptance of circumstance, some by your wild struggles. You say that you hate change, but you are change. The Fool in Fool’s Fate

Anticipating pain was like enduring it twice. Why not anticipate pleasure instead?

As I apologized to her a flicker of panic raced through me and then faded away. There wasn’t enough life left in me to panic. I’d made a mistake and I was dying. Apparently not even a Speck afterlife was available to me. I’d simply stop being. Apparently I hadn’t died correctly. Oops.

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