Robin Hobb: Man

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

“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 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.”

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

“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.”

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

“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.”

“It doesn't have to be that bad,' Chade said quietly. 'Most prisons are of our own making. A man makes his own freedom, too.”

“Most prisons are of our own making. A man makes his own freedom, too.”