Everybody has felt at one time or another that everyone else in the world had a better shot than they did, so… — Robin Hobb Copy Share Image
There is a dead spot in the night, that coldest, blackest time when the world has forgotten evening and dawn is not… — Robin Hobb Copy Share Image
Leave the pain behind and let your life be your own again. There is a place where all time is now, and… — Robin Hobb Copy Share Image
“Like a flower pressed flat and dried, we try to hold it still and say, this is exactly how it was the… — Robin Hobb Copy Share Image
“Such a storm of emotions as humans can evoke, all on the basis of imagination,” the dragon observed condescendingly. In a more… — Robin Hobb Copy Share Image
...To free humanity of time. For time is the great enslaver of us all. Time that ages us, time that limits us.… — Robin Hobb Copy Share Image
“You make no sense! You went somewhere to discover your place in history? How can that be? History is what is done… — Robin Hobb Copy Share Image
“A moment of panic washed over her. There was so little time, it might even now be too late to shape them.… — Robin Hobb Copy Share Image
“The problem is not that we forget the past. It is that we recall it too well. Children recall wrongs that enemies… — Robin Hobb Copy Share Image
“All events, no matter how earth-shaking or bizarre, are diluted within moments of their occurrence by the continuance of the necessary routines… — Robin Hobb Copy Share Image
Do you do this because you live such short lives? Tell yourselves wild tales of what might happen tomorrow, and feel all… — Robin Hobb Copy Share Image
“There are endings. There are beginnings. Sometimes they coincide, with the ending of one thing marking the beginning of another. But sometimes… — 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