“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
“I lied to hurt you. For letting him be dead while you lived. For being loved by him more than he loved… — 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
“If he ever wanted vengeance on me for all I did, he has it now. This is the worst thing he could… — Robin Hobb Copy Share Image
“This was misery that could not yield, for he sorrowed for a time he could not return to, and a self he… — Robin Hobb Copy Share Image
“His face was so ravaged, it was like looking at death itself. Except for the smooth, silvered part of it. By creeping… — Robin Hobb Copy Share Image
“I could not make it right, but I could make someone pay for how wrong it had been.” — 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
“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
“For he was the Fool now, all of Lord Chance and Lady Amber and Lord Golden scraped away by sorrow. He was… — Robin Hobb Copy Share Image
“As if he hadn't always known he was loved the best. That he was the Beloved.” — 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