Robin Hobb Quotes - Page 2

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

Everyone thinks that courage is about facing death without flinching. But almost anyone can do that. Almost anyone can hold their breath and not scream for as long as it takes to die. True courage is about facing life without flinching. I don't mean the times when the right path is hard, but glorious at the end. I'm talking about enduring the boredom, the messiness, and the inconvenience of doing what is right. ~Amber

The man who must brag for himself knows that no one else will

There is little in life so reassuring as a genuine welcome.

Cats talk to whomever they please.

Very little worth knowing is taught by fear.

The fight isn't over until you win.

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.

When you spring to an idea, and decide it is truth, without evidence, you blind yourself to other possibilities.

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

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.

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.

Do you not see how strange and wonderful that is? That all history balances on an affair of the human heart?

Your future. It awaits only you, to live it and to write it. - Shaman's Crossing by Robin Hobb

if love doesnt come first and linger after, if love cant wait and endure disappointment and seperation, then its not love.

When we come back to fantasy, I think we're actually coming back to the real bedrock of storytelling. Our national or international genre really is fantasy, if you think about the worldwide myths and legends and stories that we all know, whether we're talking about Little Red Riding Hood or the Arabian Nights or Noah's Ark or Hercules. These are stories that cross many cultures in much the same way that dragons cross many cultures.

We are as we are. How can you claim to know what life I was meant to lead, let alone threaten to force me into it? All your quibbling is nonsense. As well forbid your nose to snuff, or your ears to hear. We are as we do.

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.

One must plan for the future and anticipate the future without fearing the future.

In real life, things don't all end at the nice same place. To keep the story real, there has to be kind of a ragged edge at the end of a novel.

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

Remember with your heart. Go back, go back and go back. The skies of this world were always meant to have dragons. When they are not here, humans miss them. Some never think of them, of course. But some children, from the time they are small, they look up at the blue summer sky and watch for something that never comes. Because they know. Something that was supposed to be there faded and vanished. Something that we must bring back, you and I.

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.

Be a man. Discover where you are now, and go on from there, making the best of things. accept your life, and you might survive it. If you hold back from it, insisting this is not your life, not where you are meant to be, life will pass you by. You may not die from such foolishness, but you might as well be dead for all the good your life will do you or anyone else.

What a man can take with a sword, a woman can give by her flesh alone. Life.