“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
“...there was no point in sighing after what I could not have. It only distracted me from what I did have.” — Robin Hobb Copy Share Image
“...a great part of what unmanned me was distress at the destruction of my own body. It was odd to realise that… — Robin Hobb Copy Share Image
That is the trick of good government. To make folk desire to live in such a way that there is no need… — Robin Hobb Copy Share Image
“...some secrets beg to be betrayed. The secret of undeclared love is like that.” — Robin Hobb Copy Share Image
Boredom is vastly underrated. Boredom means that nothing is trying to kill you every day. — Robin Hobb Copy Share Image
“But that is not true for all folk. Some folk are meant to argue with fate. And win.” — Robin Hobb Copy Share Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
“... finally realizing that life was to be lived, rather than hoarded against an unseen tomorrow.” — Robin Hobb Copy Share Image
“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 Image
