Robin Hobb Short Quotes

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

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One had a knife. But I had a staff and was trained to use it.

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Death is not the opposite of life, but the opposite of choice.

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No man is so dangerous as the man who cannot decide what he fears.

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Stop longing.You poison today's ease, reaching always for tomorrow.

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

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Nothing takes the heart out of a man more than the expectation of failure.

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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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Tomorrow owes you the sum of your yesterdays. No more than that. And no less.

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One must plan for the future and anticipate the future without fearing the future.

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

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For the weakest has but to try his strength to find it, and then he shall be strong.

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

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Not being able to think of a reply is not the same thing as accepting another's words.

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

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

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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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I healed. Not completely. A scar is never the same as good flesh, but it stops the bleeding.

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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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Thinking is not always...comforting. It is always good, but not always comforting. Royal Assassin

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

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Sometimes it only makes one more lonely to know that somewhere else, one's friends and family are well.

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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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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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I think that old magic draws much of its strength from that acknowledgment: that we are a part of that world.

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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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When you spring to an idea, and decide it is truth, without evidence, you blind yourself to other possibilities.

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The fight isn't over until you win it, Fitz. That's all you have to remember. No matter what the other man says.

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