“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
“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
History is no more fixed and dead than the future. The past is no further away than the last breath you took. — 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
Life is not a race to restore a past situation. Nor does one have to hurry to meet the future. Seeing how… — Robin Hobb Copy Share Image
Writers really do that. We weep over our characters. We are saddened sometimes for days when we say goodbye to a world… — Robin Hobb Copy Share Image
I believed that by fixing it down in words, I could force sense from all that had happened, that effect would follow… — 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
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
