Robin Hobb: Trending quotes (page 2)

“Time is an unkind teacher, delivering lessons that we learn far too late for them to be useful. Years after I could have benefited from them, the insights come to me.”

“History is no more fixed and dead than the future. The past is no further away than the last breath you took.”

“I thought we had lost you. I thought we'd done something worse than let you die.' His old arms were tight and strong about me.

I was kind to the old man. I did not tell him they had.”

“When you spring to an idea, and decide it is truth, without evidence, you blind yourself to other possibilities.”

“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.”

“That is the trick of good government. To make folk desire to live in such a way that there is no need for its intervention.”

“You seek a false comfort when you demand that I define myself for you with words. Words do not contain or define any person. A heart can, if it is willing.”

“Wolves have no kings.”

“But a living is not a life.”

“Too late to apologize, I've already forgiven you.”

“Look forward, not back. Correct your course and go on. You cannot undo yesterday's journey.”

“Someday is someday, and maybe it will be or maybe it won't. This is a human thing, to worry about things that may or may not come to be. You can't eat meat until you've killed it.”

“When you fear to fail, you fear something that has not happened yet. You predict your own failure, and by inaction, lock yourself into it.”

“Learning is never wrong. Even learning how to kill isn't wrong. Or right. It's just a thing to learn, a thing I can teach you. That's all.”

“For the weakest has but to try his strength to find it, and then he shall be strong.”

“His absence seemed a solid thing, a burden I must carry in addition to my grief… Yet I knew I would continue to live. Sometimes that knowledge seemed the worst part of my loss.”

“When considering a man's motives, remember you must not measure his wheat with your bushel. He may not be using the same standard at all.”

“Men of passion and vision are often seen as mad.”

“No man is so dangerous as the man who cannot decide what he fears.”