Robin Hobb: Trending quotes (page 3)

“We are the sum of all we have done added to the sum of all that has been done to us.”

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

“What a man can take with a sword, a woman can give by her flesh alone. Life.”

“The fight isn't over until you win it, Fitz. That's all you have to remember. No matter what the other man says.”

“The past is no further away than the last breath you took.”

“It's all connected. When you save any part of the world, you've saved the whole world. In fact, that's the only way it can be done.”

“Life is not a race to restore a past situation. Nor does one have to hurry to meet the future. Seeing how things change is what makes life interesting.”

“You are confusing plumbing and love again.”

“Fitz: Shall we get up tomorrow and go looking for a wild pig?
Nighteyes: I didn’t lose any wild pigs, did you?”

“Sorrow and loss never die. We can put them away in a chest and lock it tight, but whenever it is opened, even a crack, the aroma of lost sweetness will rise to fill our lungs to heaviness.”

“Come, hunt with me, the invitation whispers in my heart. Leave the pain behind and let your life be your own again. There is a place where all time is now, and the choices are simple and always your own.
Wolves have no kings.”

“How do you politely explain to someone that you had believed for years he was a moron as well as a Fool?
Fitz in Assassin's Apprentice”

“Men cannot grieve as dogs do. But they grieve for many years.”

“Do you not see how strange and wonderful that is? That all history balances on an affair of the human heart?”

“Sometimes a man doesn't know how badly he's hurt until someone else probes the wound.”

“When people look most vicious, what you are seeing is not their animal side. It is the savagery that only humans can muster.”

“I never confuse the cost of something with its value”

“One must plan for the future and anticipate the future without fearing the future.”

“People are intimidated by a man who acts with no apparent regard for consequences. Behave as if you cannot be touched and no one will dare to touch you.”