Robin Hobb Quotes

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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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  Done

  Robin Hobb (2002). “Assassin's Apprentice: The Farseer Trilogy”, p.392, Spectra

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

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  Mean, Boredom, Trying

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

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  Journey, Yesterday, Goes On

  Robin Hobb (2003). “Mad Ship”, p.81, Spectra

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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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  Kings, Pain, Simple

  Robin Hobb (2002). “Royal Assassin: The Farseer Trilogy”, p.653, Spectra

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

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  Heart, Men, Expectations

  Robin Hobb (2002). “Assassin's Apprentice: The Farseer Trilogy”, p.294, Spectra

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

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  Yesterday, Tomorrow

  Robin Hobb (2015). “Fool's Quest: Book II of the Fitz and the Fool trilogy”, p.720, Del Rey

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• I told you I set no limits on my love for you. I don't. Yet I have never expected you to offer me your body. It was the whole of your heart, all for myself, that I sought. Even though I've never had a right to it. For you gave it away ere ever you saw me.

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  Heart, My Love For You, Body

  Robin Hobb (2004). “Fool's Fate: The Tawny Man Trilogy”, p.1054, Spectra

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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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  Thinking, Able, Accepting

  Robin Hobb (2002). “Assassin's Quest: The Farseer Trilogy”, p.41, Spectra

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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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  Mistake, Risk, Path

  Robin Hobb (2014). “The Tawny Man Trilogy 3-Book Bundle: Fool's Errand, Golden Fool, Fool's Fate”, p.2025, Del Rey

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• I believed that by fixing it down in words, I could force sense from all that had happened, that effect would follow cause, and the reason for each event come clear to me. But then I returned one day, to find all my careful scribing gone to fragments of vellum lying in a trampled yard with wet snow blowing over them. I sat my horse, looking down at them, and knew that, as it always would, the past had broken free of my effort to define and understand it. 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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  Horse, Lying, Past

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• I never confuse the cost of something with its value

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  Cost, Values

  Robin Hobb (2014). “The Liveship Traders Trilogy 3-Book Bundle: Ship of Magic, Mad Ship, Ship of Destiny”, p.1424, Del Rey

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

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  Poison, Ease, Today

  Robin Hobb (2014). “The Tawny Man Trilogy 3-Book Bundle: Fool's Errand, Golden Fool, Fool's Fate”, p.155, Del Rey

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• Love isn't just about feeling sure of the other person, knowing what he would give up for you. It's knowing with certainty what you are willing to surrender for his sake. Make no mistake; each partner gives up something. Individual dreams are surrendered for a shared one.

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  Dream, Giving Up, Mistake

  Robin Hobb (2003). “Mad Ship”, p.299, Spectra

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• Anticipating pain was like enduring it twice. Why not anticipate pleasure instead?

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  Pain, Why Not, Anticipation

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• In that last dance of chances I shall partner you no more. I shall watch another turn you As you move across the floor. In that last dance of chances When I bid your life goodbye I will hope she treats you kindly. I will hope you learn to fly. In that last dance of chances When I know you'll not be mine I will let you go with longing And the hope that you'll be fine. In that last dance of chances We shall know each other's minds. We shall part with our regrets When the tie no longer binds.

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  Goodbye, Regret, Moving

  Robin Hobb (2004). “Fool's Fate: The Tawny Man Trilogy”, p.1066, Spectra

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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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  Truth, Cutting, Pieces

  Robin Hobb (2002). “Assassin's Apprentice: The Farseer Trilogy”, p.209, Spectra

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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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  Thinking, Done, Eternal

  Robin Hobb (2002). “Royal Assassin: The Farseer Trilogy”, p.647, Spectra

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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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  Escaping, Years, Justice

  Robin Hobb (2004). “Fool's Fate: The Tawny Man Trilogy”, p.8, Spectra

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• There is a dead spot in the night, that coldest, blackest time when the world has forgotten evening and dawn is not yet a promise. A time when it is far too early to arise, but so late that going to bed makes small sense.

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  Night, Promise, Bed

  Robin Hobb (2002). “Assassin's Quest: The Farseer Trilogy”, p.42, Spectra

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• It's all connected. When you save any part of the world, you've saved the whole world. In fact, that's the only way it can be done.

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  Done, World, Way

  Robin Hobb (2003). “Golden Fool: The Tawny Man Trilogy”, p.799, Spectra

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• Death is always less painful and easier than life! You speak true. And yet we do not, day to day, choose death. Because ultimately, death is not the opposite of life, but the opposite of choice. Death is what you get when there are no choices left to make.

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  Opposites, Choices, Speak

  Robin Hobb (2002). “Fool's Errand: The Tawny Man Trilogy”, p.183, Spectra

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• That is the challenge Companion. To take what has happened to you and learn from it. Nothing is quite so destructive as pity, especially self-pity. No event in life is so terrible that one cannot rise above it.

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  Self, Events In Life, Challenges

  Robin Hobb (2014). “The Liveship Traders Trilogy 3-Book Bundle: Ship of Magic, Mad Ship, Ship of Destiny”, p.1940, Del Rey

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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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  Silence, Tongue, Asks

  Robin Hobb (2002). “Fool's Errand: The Tawny Man Trilogy”, p.35, Spectra

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• Diplomacy is the velvet glove that cloaks the fist of power.

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  Velvet, Gloves, Fists

  Robin Hobb (2014). “The Tawny Man Trilogy 3-Book Bundle: Fool's Errand, Golden Fool, Fool's Fate”, p.3219, Del Rey

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• Cats talk to whomever they please.

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  Cat, Please

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