Robin Hobb Quotes

Boredom is vastly underrated. Boredom means that nothing is trying to kill you every day.

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

Look forward, not back. Correct your course and go on. You cannot undo yesterday's journey.

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

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

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

I told you I set no limits on my love for you. I don't. Yet I have never expected you to offer me your body. It was the whole of your heart, all for myself, that I sought. Even though I've never had a right to it. For you gave it away ere ever you saw me.

Love isn't just about feeling sure of the other person, knowing what he would give up for you. It's knowing with certainty what you are willing to surrender for his sake. Make no mistake; each partner gives up something. Individual dreams are surrendered for a shared one.

Perhaps having the courage to find a better path is having the courage to risk making new mistakes.

Not being able to think of a reply is not the same thing as accepting another's words.

I never confuse the cost of something with its value

Anticipating pain was like enduring it twice. Why not anticipate pleasure instead?

Stop longing.You poison today’s ease, reaching always for tomorrow.

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.

In that last dance of chances I shall partner you no more. I shall watch another turn you As you move across the floor. In that last dance of chances When I bid your life goodbye I will hope she treats you kindly. I will hope you learn to fly. In that last dance of chances When I know you'll not be mine I will let you go with longing And the hope that you'll be fine. In that last dance of chances We shall know each other's minds. We shall part with our regrets When the tie no longer binds.

When you cut pieces out of the truth to avoid looking like a fool you end up looking like a moron instead.

Death is always less painful and easier than life! You speak true. And yet we do not, day to day, choose death. Because ultimately, death is not the opposite of life, but the opposite of choice. Death is what you get when there are no choices left to make.

Fitz fixes fyces fitz.Fatsafices.

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.

Sometimes it seems unfair that events so old can reach forward through the years, sinking claws into one's life and twisting all that follows it. Yet perhaps that is the ultimate justice: we are the sum of all we have done added to the sum of all that has been done to us. There is no escaping that, not for any of us.

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

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.

It's too late to apologize for. I have already forgiven you.

For the weakest has but to try his strength to find it, and then he shall be strong.

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.