Robin Hobb Quotes

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King Shrewd is expecting me, rather he isn't expecting me, and that is precisely why I must go to him now.

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One can only walk so far from one's true self before the bond either snaps, or pulls one back.

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Be a man. Discover where you are now, and go on from there, making the best of things. accept your life, and you might survive it. If you hold back from it, insisting this is not your life, not where you are meant to be, life will pass you by. You may not die from such foolishness, but you might as well be dead for all the good your life will do you or anyone else.

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But change proves that you are still alive. Change often measures our tolerance for folk different from ourselves. Can we accept their languages, their customs, their garments, and their foods into our own lives? If we can, then we form bonds, bonds that make wars less likely. If we cannot, if we believe that we must do things as we have always done them, then we must either fight to remain as we are, or die

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

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You seek a false comfort when you demand that I define myself for you with words. Words do not contain or define any person. A heart can, if it is willing.

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Look forward, not back. Correct your course and go on. You cannot undo yesterday's journey.

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I feared my own kind more than anything the natural world could ever threaten me with.

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Silence can ask all the questions, where the tongue is prone to ask only the wrong one.

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To be part of a family, or any community, is to have duties and responsibility, to be bound by the rules of that group.

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Most prisons are of our own making. A man makes his own freedom, too.

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As I apologized to her a flicker of panic raced through me and then faded away. There wasn't enough life left in me to panic. I'd made a mistake and I was dying. Apparently not even a Speck afterlife was available to me. I'd simply stop being. Apparently I hadn't died correctly. Oops.

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Perhaps having the courage to find a better path is having the courage to risk making new mistakes.

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We are as we are. How can you claim to know what life I was meant to lead, let alone threaten to force me into it? All your quibbling is nonsense. As well forbid your nose to snuff, or your ears to hear. We are as we do.

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The truth, I discovered, is a tree that grows as a man gains access to experience. A child sees the acorn of his daily life, but a man looks back on the oak.

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What good is a life lived as if it made no difference at all to the great life of the world? - Fool

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Don't do what you can't undo, until you've considered what you can't do once you've done it.

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When you cut pieces out of the truth to avoid looking like a fool you end up looking like a moron instead.

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Someday is someday, and maybe it will be or maybe it won't. This is a human thing, to worry about things that may or may not come to be. You can't eat meat until you've killed it.

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

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Stop thinking of what you intend to do. Stop thinking of what you have just done. Then, stop thinking that you have stopped thinking of those things. Then you will find the Now, the time that stretches eternal, and is really the only time there is.

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Sometimes it seems unfair that events so old can reach forward through the years, sinking claws into one's life and twisting all that follows it. Yet perhaps that is the ultimate justice: we are the sum of all we have done added to the sum of all that has been done to us. There is no escaping that, not for any of us.

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Learning is never wrong. Even learning how to kill isn't wrong. Or right. It's just a thing to learn, a thing I can teach you. That's all.

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I thought we had lost you. I thought we'd done something worse than let you die.' His old arms were tight and strong about me. I was kind to the old man. I did not tell him they had.

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If I had a dog that was sick as often as you are, I'd put it down," he observed kindly.

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The man who must brag for himself knows that no one else will

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Leave the pain behind and let your life be your own again. There is a place where all time is now, and the choices are simple and always your own. Wolves have no kings

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To free humanity of time. For time is the great enslaver of us all. Time that ages us, time that limits us. Think how often you have wished to have more time for something, or wished you could go back a day and do something differently. When humanity is freed of time, old wrongs can be corrected before they are done.

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History is no more fixed and dead than the future. The past is no further away than the last breath you took.

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Silent," the carved wizardwood on his wrist breathed. "Silent as a blinded ship, floating hull-up in the sea. Silent as a scream underwater.

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