Robin Hobb

Boredom is vastly underrated. Boredom means that nothing is trying to kill you every day.

— Robin Hobb

“But that is not true for all folk. Some folk are meant to argue with fate. And win.”

— Robin Hobb

“I tried to leave you alone, Fitz. To find what peace you could, even if it excluded me from your life.” Ten…

— Robin Hobb

“Do you think you're taking Etta out of here?" "Yes," Kennit called over his shoulder up the sairs. "What about all these…

— Robin Hobb

“A way out is a way in. Then,”

— Robin Hobb

“Die in your dreams, wake up insane.”

— Robin Hobb

“I felt a familiar squeezing in what I thought must be my heart. I had heard of being "heartbroken" or "heavy-hearted" but…

— Robin Hobb

“They spoke of a dream of a child who bore the heart of a wolf.”

— Robin Hobb

“We all perish in our last attempt to live.”

— Robin Hobb

“There is always power in holding a secret.”

— Robin Hobb

“... finally realizing that life was to be lived, rather than hoarded against an unseen tomorrow.”

— Robin Hobb

“Why, I suddenly wondered, had I wasted all those hours I could have spent with her? Why hadn’t I gone with them,…

— Robin Hobb

“I think I made a better boy than I do a man, I admitted ruefully to the wolf. Why not wait until…

— Robin Hobb

“So, with all the wide world to choose from, you didn't choose at all. You simply stopped wandering one day”

— Robin Hobb

“I don't think I can stand it much longer,” he warned her. “Something will have to give way. And I fear it…

— Robin Hobb

“I sleep like an old woman now, she thought to herself. In fits and starts. It isn’t sleeping and it isn’t waking…

— Robin Hobb

“We were one thing. Whole.”

— Robin Hobb

“My silences he mistook for a lack of wit rather than a lack of any need to speak.”

— Robin Hobb

This, more than anything else, is what I have never understood about your people. You can roll dice, and understand that the…

— Robin Hobb

“But there was a cost to that surcease from pain, Fool. When you dull pain and hide it from yourself…” My words…

— Robin Hobb

“Having something explained to you does not always solve it.”

— Robin Hobb

“The second thing you have to do to be a writer is to keep on writing. Don't listen to people who tell…

— Robin Hobb

“I'll be teaching you the nasty, furtive, polite ways to kill people”

— Robin Hobb

“I truly wanted to live a life in which I could make my own choices, independent of the 'duties' of my birth…

— Robin Hobb

What a man can take with a sword, a woman can give by her flesh alone. Life.

— Robin Hobb