“All I ever wanted to do was live my own life. And I’m having damn little success at that.” She laughed low. “Only because you keep standing back from it. And turning aside from it. And avoiding it.” She shook… — Robin Hobb Copy Share Image
“True courage is 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, and the messiness, and the inconvenience of doing what is right.’… — 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
“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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
