Robin Hobb citations

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“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.”

“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.”

“One can only walk so far from one's true self before the bond either snaps, or pulls one back.”

“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.”