What good is a life lived as if it made no difference at all to the great life of the world? -… — Robin Hobb Copy Share Image
“And the world re-ordered itself around me. I spoke each word carefully. 'You are so stupid.” — Robin Hobb Copy Share Image
When you cut pieces out of the truth to avoid looking like a fool you end up looking like a moron instead. — Robin Hobb Copy Share Image
“And so the Wolf of the West rose from the stone! And so he will rise again if ever the folk of… — Robin Hobb Copy Share Image
How do you politely explain to someone that you had believed for years he was a moron as well as a Fool?… — Robin Hobb Copy Share Image
“There's something stalking us. Off to the side of the road, moving through the forest.' Kettricken smiled.” — Robin Hobb Copy Share Image
“Because your heart will be hammered against him, and your strength will be tempered in his fire.” — Robin Hobb Copy Share Image
“For he was the Fool now, all of Lord Chance and Lady Amber and Lord Golden scraped away by sorrow. He was… — Robin Hobb Copy Share Image
“I don’t need to be a hero, Fool. I’d settle for feeling that what I did every day had significance to someone… — Robin Hobb Copy Share Image
“I wish they would all go away. Except the Fool. I wished he would join me. Somehow, I had always thought he… — Robin Hobb Copy Share Image
Ah, Catylast, can it be that you do not see all the changes you have made? Some by your resignation and acceptance… — Robin Hobb Copy Share Image
“His face was so ravaged, it was like looking at death itself. Except for the smooth, silvered part of it. By creeping… — Robin Hobb Copy Share Image
“If he ever wanted vengeance on me for all I did, he has it now. This is the worst thing he could… — Robin Hobb Copy Share Image
“My dragons!' she insisted. 'She has finally found a flock to join,' he observed to me. 'Her own kind always pecked her.… — Robin Hobb Copy Share Image
My blood will only buy you that fool's regard. I will pay a high price for you to be respected by a… — Robin Hobb Copy Share Image
When considering a man's motives, remember you must not measure his wheat with your bushel. He may not be using the same… — Robin Hobb Copy Share Image
All events, no matter how earthshaking or bizarre, are diluted within moments of their occurrence the the continuance of the necessary routines… — Robin Hobb Copy Share Image
This, more than anything else, is what I have never understood about your people. You can roll dice, and understand that the… — Robin Hobb Copy Share Image
“Trust had. But I had broken that, like a child who takes something apart to see how it works and ends up… — Robin Hobb Copy Share Image
“The knowledge that he had left me with no intent ever to return had come over me in tiny droplets of realization… — Robin Hobb Copy Share Image
“Chade, I know the Fool is strange. But I like it when he comes to talk to me. He speaks in riddles,… — Robin Hobb Copy Share Image
“He shook his head pityingly. “This, more than anything else, is what I have never understood about your people. You can roll… — Robin Hobb Copy Share Image
“I will always take your part, Bee. Right or wrong. That is why you must always take care to be right, lest… — Robin Hobb Copy Share Image
“Those were some astounding lies, cub. And the very last one the most inspired of all. You have your father's talent for… — Robin Hobb Copy Share Image
How do you politely explain to someone that you had believed for years he was a moron as well as a Fool? — Robin Hobb Copy Share Image
Boredom is vastly underrated. Boredom means that nothing is trying to kill you every day. — Robin Hobb Copy Share
“But that is not true for all folk. Some folk are meant to argue with fate. And win.” — Robin Hobb Copy Share
“I tried to leave you alone, Fitz. To find what peace you could, even if it excluded me from your life.” Ten years ago,… — Robin Hobb Copy Share
“Do you think you're taking Etta out of here?" "Yes," Kennit called over his shoulder up the sairs. "What about all these dead men?"… — Robin Hobb Copy Share
“I felt a familiar squeezing in what I thought must be my heart. I had heard of being "heartbroken" or "heavy-hearted" but I had… — Robin Hobb Copy Share
“... finally realizing that life was to be lived, rather than hoarded against an unseen tomorrow.” — Robin Hobb Copy Share
“Why, I suddenly wondered, had I wasted all those hours I could have spent with her? Why hadn’t I gone with them, to listen… — Robin Hobb Copy Share
“I think I made a better boy than I do a man, I admitted ruefully to the wolf. Why not wait until you've been… — Robin Hobb Copy Share
“So, with all the wide world to choose from, you didn't choose at all. You simply stopped wandering one day” — Robin Hobb Copy Share
“I don't think I can stand it much longer,” he warned her. “Something will have to give way. And I fear it will be… — Robin Hobb Copy Share