Robin Hobb

Wolves have no kings.

— Robin Hobb

“What does who call me when?”

— Robin Hobb

But a living is not a life.

— Robin Hobb

“Men cannot grieve as dogs do.”

— Robin Hobb

“Dragons. A sky full of dragons.”

— Robin Hobb

“Death fed life.”

— Robin Hobb

“A simple question unlocks best.”

— Robin Hobb

“We were one thing. Whole.”

— Robin Hobb

“Die in your dreams, wake up insane.”

— Robin Hobb

“Your future. It awaits only you, to live it and to write it.”

— Robin Hobb

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

— Robin Hobb

“Think of what is and don't let what might have been distract you.”

— Robin Hobb

I am the King's Fool. He is the King-In-Wating. Let him wait.

— Robin Hobb

Stop longing. You poison todays ease, reaching always for tomorrow.

— Robin Hobb

“Is time the wheel that turns, or the track it leaves behind?”

— Robin Hobb

Start writing sooner. Don't wait for permission. Don't hesitate.

— Robin Hobb

“Her anger was hard for me to bear, but weeping would have been worse." p. 513”

— Robin Hobb

“A leaf turns in the wind, and you suddenly have a different perception of what colour it is.”

— Robin Hobb

“in your conceit and aggression, you wage wars and slay one another over the lines you have imagined on the world’s face.”

— Robin Hobb

A woman of many talents. And intelligent, too. He'd probably have to kill her soon.

— Robin Hobb

“Fitz, you are angry. I can feel it like storm waves lashing my shores.”

— Robin Hobb

“As well to clutch at the moon’s reflection in a still midnight pond as to seek a grip on that bright mind.”

— Robin Hobb

“My fate was a runaway horse, dragging destruction like a broken cart through so many lives.”

— Robin Hobb

“When people look most vicious, what you are seeing is not their animal side. It is the savagery that only humans can…

— Robin Hobb

“We were one thing. A whole thing. You and I and Nighteyes. I felt a strange sort of peace. As if all…

— Robin Hobb

“Always I have possessed the loneliness of one raised amid intrigues and clustering secrets, the isolation of a boy who cannot trust…

— Robin Hobb

“Passed through fire and plunged through salt water and offered to the winds of the air; thus were names sealed to these…

— Robin Hobb

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

“Be the night. Not the wind that stirs the trees, not even the soundless owl a-wing or the tiny mouse crouched motionless.…

— Robin Hobb

“And like a child, I'd be testing the people who loved me, pulling away from them almost for the sole reason of…

— Robin Hobb

“I perceived then that my father had already known these things, but that by asking about them in front of us, he…

— Robin Hobb

I thought we had lost you. I thought we'd done something worse than let you die.' His old arms were tight and…

— 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

I believed that by fixing it down in words, I could force sense from all that had happened, that effect would follow…

— Robin Hobb

“The King's tool. I see.' An oppression settle over me. My brief glimpse of blue skies arching over yellow roads and me…

— Robin Hobb

“Much later that night, as he meditated in forgiveness of the day, he wondered at himself. Had not he laughed at cruelty,…

— Robin Hobb

“I had Hap still, I reminded myself, but on the heels of that thought I knew I did not. Hap was a…

— Robin Hobb

“There is a peculiar strength that comes to one who is facing the final battle. That battle is not limited to war,…

— Robin Hobb

“She thinks you will succeed. But whether you will know you have succeeded, or if the success will be the one you…

— 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