Robin Hobb: Trending quotes

“Don’t do what you can’t undo, until you’ve considered what you can’t do once you’ve done it.”

“Nothing takes the heart out of a man more than the expectation of failure.”

“Silence can ask all the questions, where the tongue is prone to ask only the wrong one.”

“Everyone thinks that courage is about facing death without flinching. But almost anyone can do that. Almost anyone can hold their breath and not scream for as long as it takes to die.

True courage is about facing life without flinching. I don't mean the times when the right path is hard, but glorious at the end. I'm talking about enduring the boredom, the messiness, and the inconvenience of doing what is right.”

“Home is people. Not a place. If you go back there after the people are gone, then all you can see is what is not there any more.”

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

“The man who must brag for himself knows that no one else will”

“The fight isn't over until you win.”

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

“Stop longing. You poison today’s ease, reaching always for tomorrow.”

“Very little worth knowing is taught by fear.”

“Not being able to think of a reply is not the same thing as accepting another's words.”

“Death is not the opposite of life, but the opposite of choice.”

“Thinking is not always… comforting. It is always good, but not always comforting.”

“I healed. Not completely. A scar is never the same as good flesh, but it stops the bleeding.”

“Stop thinking of what you intend to do. Stop thinking of what you have just done. Then, stop thinking that you have stopped thinking of those things. Then you will find the Now, the time that stretches eternal, and is really the only time there is.”

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

“That is the challenge Companion. To take what has happened to you and learn from it. Nothing is quite so destructive as pity, especially self-pity. No event in life is so terrible that one cannot rise above it.”

“if love doesnt come first and linger after, if love cant wait and endure disappointment and seperation, then its not love.”