“Leave old pains alone. When they cease coming to call, do not invite them back.” — 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
If a man does not die of a wound, then it heals in some fashion, and so it is with loss. From… — Robin Hobb Copy Share Image
“You should leave off sniffing the carcass of your old life, my brother. You may enjoy unending pain. I do not. There… — Robin Hobb Copy Share Image
“Something clamped tight inside her suddenly eased. He had been right. She did not have to grip her pain. She could let… — Robin Hobb Copy Share Image
“Leave off sniffing the carcass of your old life-do you enjoy unending pain? There is no shame in walking away from bones.… — Robin Hobb Copy Share Image
“The death of Nighteyes gutted me. I walked wounded through my life in the days that followed, unaware of just how mutilated… — Robin Hobb Copy Share Image
Fitz: How bad is it? Nighteyes: Mind your own business. Fitz: You ARE my business. Nighteyes: Sharing pain doesn’t loosen it. Fitz:… — 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
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
Anticipating pain was like enduring it twice. Why not anticipate pleasure instead? — Robin Hobb Copy Share Image
“Despite my pain, I felt not the regret of an ending, but the foreboding of a beginning.” — Robin Hobb Copy Share Image
“Surrendering that pain to stone had deadened me in a way that was a relief, but there was a darker side to… — 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
