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.”

“Ah, Beloved. Of all the things I must bid farewell to, you are the most difficult to lose. Forgive me that I have avoided you. Better, perhaps, that we make a space between us and become accustomed to it before fate forces that upon us.”

“To recognize you are the source of your own loneliness is not a cure for it. But it is a step toward seeing that it is not inevitable, and that such a choice is not irrevocable.”

“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.”

“Justice. There's a thing we shall ever thirst after, and ever be parched. No. We content ourselves with law.”

“One does not need the size of a dragon to have the soul of a dragon.”

“No. This is right. I feel it. I am the Catalyst, and I came to change all things. Prophets become warriors, dragons hunt as wolves.
Fitz in Assassin's Quest”

“the greatest danger is always the one we are ignorant of.”

“Sometimes it seemed to me a cruelty that so much was unresolved between us; at other times, a blessing that a hope of reunion lingered.”

“Every small, unselfish action nudges the world into a better path. An accumulation of small acts can change the world.”

“I lived my grief; I slept mourning and ate sorrow and drank tears. I ignored all else.”

“All of life, I wanted to tell him, is in our minds. Where else does it take place, where else do we add up what it means to us and subtract what we have lost? An event is just an event until some person attaches meaning to it.”

“My silences he mistook for a lack of wit rather than a lack of any need to speak.”

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

“Utter loneliness was planted in me then, and sent its deep roots down into me.”

“A simple question unlocks best.”