Robin Hobb citations

“La mort nous guette et elle est toujours assurée de sa prise. Il ne sert à rien d’y songer sans cesse, mais, dans nos entrailles dans nos os, nous savons tous qu’elle est là. Tous sauf les humains.”

“Tomorrow owes you the sum of your yesterdays. No more than that. And no less.”

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

“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.”

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

“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.”

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

“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.”

“Diplomacy is the velvet glove that cloaks the fist of power.”

“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.”