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10cd009
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Suddenly, everything was easy and clear. I simply did whatever Chade told me to do, and trusted to him to have it turn out right. My spirit rode high on the crest of that wave of faith, and sometime during the night it occurred to me: this was what Burrich had had from Chivalry, and what he missed so badly.
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chade
chivalry-farseer
fitzchivalry-farseer
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Robin Hobb |
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236afd6
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That's how it's done, Trell. You break your heart against this stony world. You fling yourself at it, on the side of good, and you do not ask the cost. That's how you do it.
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Robin Hobb |
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22170ab
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It is an odd language, yours. You speak of passing time as in the Mountains we speak of passing wind. As if it were a thing to be gotten rid of.
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Robin Hobb |
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0900486
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I am a minstrel. I know more about lying than you will ever discover. And minstrels know that sometimes lies are what a man needs most. In order to make a new truth of them.
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Robin Hobb |
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e3acf5d
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Silence asks the questions that are too awkward to phrase. It even asks the questions one does not know to ask.
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Robin Hobb |
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01b40d7
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in your conceit and aggression, you wage wars and slay one another over the lines you have imagined on the world's face.
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Robin Hobb |
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5caf5c3
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History is what we do in our lives. We create it as we go along.' He smiled enigmatically. 'The future is another kind of history.
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Robin Hobb |
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1b33893
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We aren't fated to survive, then at least let us fight it to the end. Let it be fate that extinguishes us, not our own lack of heart.
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Robin Hobb |
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3c980fa
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Humans could never accept the world as it was and live in it. They were always breaking it and living amongst the shattered pieces.
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break
earth
force
human-beings
humankind
humans
live
method
mold
nature
remake
shatter
style
way
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Robin Hobb |
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479ebbd
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I looked at her, wanting her with all the lust of my months alone and untouched. But I knew also that for that deeper hunger for companionship and understanding, she offered me no more solace than any man might find in his own hand.
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Robin Hobb |
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39278eb
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Her nakedness was not vulnerability, but armour.
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Robin Hobb |
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a6265f2
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Every small, unselfish action nudges the world into a better path.
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Robin Hobb |
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1e556a2
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What is a secret? It is much more than knowledge shared with only a few, or perhaps only one another. It is power. It is a bond. It is a sign of deep trust, or the darkest threat possible. There is power in the keeping of a secret, and power in the revelation of a secret. Sometimes it takes a very wise man to discern which is the path to greater power. All men desirous of power should become collectors of secrets. There is no secret too s..
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betray
collect
cultivate
decide
discern
employ
hide
knowledge
learn
path
power
purchase
reveal
secret
seek-out
threat
trust
use
utilize
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Robin Hobb |
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ccf7146
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It was, after all, a time for heroes and all sorts of marvelous things to occur.
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Robin Hobb |
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2f94fb1
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I passed that day in pleasure, which is to say, in the sort of work I wanted to do rather than the work that I thought I ought to be doing.
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Robin Hobb |
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c5c7ee4
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I wasn't being fair to expect those things of him. But life wasn't fair. Life does not wait for any of us to grow up.
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Robin Hobb |
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368dfcb
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There are few things so tender as a man's dignity.
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pride
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Robin Hobb |
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d737cf2
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Now, I've had boys of my own, and I know boys aren't that way. They don't learn, or grow, or have manners when you're looking at them. But turn away, and turn back, and there they are, smarter, taller, and charming everyone but their own mothers.
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Robin Hobb |
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451389a
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If all I had ever done was to be born and discovered, I would have left a mark across all the land for all time. I grew up fatherless and motherless in a court where all recognized me as a catalyst. And a catalyst I become.
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Robin Hobb |
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0597730
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Something clamped tight inside her suddenly eased. He had been right. She did not have to grip her pain. She could let it go. The memory was still there. It had not vanished, but it had changed. It was a memory, a thing from her past. This wound could close and heal. The injury done to her was over. She did not have to keep it as a part of herself. She could allow herself to heal. Her tears were diluted in the rain that ran down her face.
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Robin Hobb |
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1903814
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When you cut pieces from the truth to avoid sounding like a fool, you end up sounding like a moron instead.
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Robin Hobb |
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3fb6f15
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What does who call me when?
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Robin Hobb |
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52c5f57
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FitzChivalry Farseer, too long have you sojourned among the Elderlings, your memory spurned by the very people you saved. Too long have you been in a place where the months pass as if days. Too long have you walked among us in false guise, deprived of your name and your honor. Rise. Turn and face the folk of the Six Duchies, your folk, and be welcomed home at last.
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Robin Hobb |
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2ae3416
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Cruelty is a skill taught not only by example, but also by experience of it.
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fool
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Robin Hobb |
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d90c95b
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It is worse than useless to do things halfway Bee, for then you think the work is done, but someone must come behind you later to do it all over again. Even if you must work much harder and get less done, it is better to do the whole task the first time.
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mortality
work
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Robin Hobb |
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a492ad3
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From their midst a broad-shouldered man stepped forth, past Longwick, who tried vainly to motion him back. He ran three strides toward me, and I took a deep, unbelieving breath of his scent just before he enfolded me in a bear hug. Despite the pain to my shoulder, I didn't struggle. I dropped my head on his shoulder, and let him support me, feeling safer than I had in years. Suddenly, it seemed as if everything would be all right, as if eve..
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heart-of-the-pack
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Robin Hobb |
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b591872
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You have a wild young heart. Right now, it is like a caged bird that batters itself against the bars. To struggle harder will only hurt you more. Wait, be patient. Your time will come to fly. And when it does, you must be strong, not bloodied and weary.
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Robin Hobb |
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46df84f
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It's a change, and I don't like changes, especially changes I don't understand.' 'Life is change,' the Fool observed lacidly. 'And death is an even greater change. I think we must resign ourselves to change, Fitz.' 'I'm tired of resigning myself to things. My entire life has been one long resignation.
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Robin Hobb |
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f550ab6
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And so the Wolf of the West rose from the stone! And so he will rise again if ever the folk of the Six Duchies call to him in need.
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fool
hap
hunt
nighteyes
song
wolf-of-the-west
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Robin Hobb |
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25cff68
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Sound seemed muted, and night darker, scent and taste dulled. It was as if the world had been robbed of its brightness. He had left me behind to dwell alone in a dimmed and stale place.
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Robin Hobb |
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e427ee5
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It doesn't work that way. Silencing memories does not make them stop existing. Events cannot be undone by forgetting them.
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Robin Hobb |
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b1565f2
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I think there is in the heart of a man a place made for wonder. It sleeps inside, awaiting fulfillment. All one's life, one gathers treasures to fill it. Sometimes they are tiny glistening jewels: a flower blooming in the shelter of a fallen tree, the arch of a small child's brow combined with the curve of her cheek. Sometimes, however, a trove falls into your hands all at once, as if some greedy pirate's chest spilled before an unsuspectin..
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Robin Hobb |
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4d3ddb1
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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. In some marriages, one partner gives up almost everything she once thought she wanted. But it's not always the woman who does so. Such sacrifice is not shameful. It's love..
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marriage
sacrifice
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Robin Hobb |
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f550a72
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Love is more than bedding, boy. If love doesn't come first and linger after, if love can't wait and endure disappointment and separation, then it's not love. Love doesn't require bedding to make it true. It doesn't even demand day-to-day contact. I know this because I have known love, many kinds of love, and amongst them, I've know what I felt for you.
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Robin Hobb |
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e5a5cb0
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The death of Nighteyes gutted me. I walked wounded through my life in the days that followed, unaware of just how mutilated I was. I was like the man who complains of the itching of his severed leg. The itching distracts from the immense knowledge that one will forever after hobble through life.
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death
denial
effect
forever
itch
knowledge
life
mutilated
pain
result
unimaginable
wound
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Robin Hobb |
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957e906
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I can see that you go through life athwart it. You see the flow of events, you are able to tell how you could most easily fit yourself into it. But you dare to oppose it. And why? Simply because you look at it and say, 'this fate does not suit me. I will not allow it to befall me.'" Amber shook her head, but her small smile made it an affirmation. "I have always admired people who can do that. So few do. Many, of course, will rant and rave ..
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fate
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Robin Hobb |
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ab89e08
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Refuse the anxiety. When you borrow trouble against what might be, you neglect the moment you have now to enjoy. The man who worries about what will next be happening to him loses this moment in dread of the next, and poisons the next with pre-judgment.
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Robin Hobb |
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109db25
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Once I got away from him, I was smart enough to stay away from him. To hunt that one is as wise as to go hunting a porcupine. I cannot leave this alone, Nighteyes. I understand. I am the same about porcupines.
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laugh-out-loud
philosophy
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Robin Hobb |
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35fa455
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It's not the kind of work a man does that says he can be proud or not. It's how he does it.
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Robin Hobb |
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5a73ec4
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A message is not delivered until it is understood.
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Robin Hobb |
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8f132bc
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sometimes luck belongs to children and madmen.
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Robin Hobb |
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cd55ea3
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much discomfort was based on human expectations. As a man, I expected to be warm and dry when I chose to be. Animals did not harbor any such beliefs. So it was raining. That part of me that was wolf could accept that. Rain meant being cold and wet. Once I acknowledged that and stopped comparing it to what I wished it to be, the conditions were far more tolerable.
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Robin Hobb |
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a1206ad
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Name it as you will, claim it as you will, the world does not belong to men. Men belong to the world.
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Robin Hobb |
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9e9a0a5
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You want a mate who will follow your dream. You don't want to give up your own ambitions to make someone else's life possible.' 'I supposed that's true,' Althea admitted reluctantly. An instant later she demanded, 'Why is that so wrong?' 'It isn't,' Amber assured her, A moment later she added wickedly, 'As long as you're male.
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Robin Hobb |