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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 2f94fb1 | 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. | Robin Hobb | ||
| c5c7ee4 | 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. | Robin Hobb | ||
| 368dfcb | There are few things so tender as a man's dignity. | pride | Robin Hobb | |
| d737cf2 | 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. | Robin Hobb | ||
| 451389a | 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. | Robin Hobb | ||
| 0597730 | 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. | Robin Hobb | ||
| 1903814 | When you cut pieces from the truth to avoid sounding like a fool, you end up sounding like a moron instead. | Robin Hobb | ||
| 3fb6f15 | What does who call me when? | Robin Hobb | ||
| 52c5f57 | 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. | Robin Hobb | ||
| 2ae3416 | Cruelty is a skill taught not only by example, but also by experience of it. | fool | Robin Hobb | |
| d90c95b | 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. | mortality work | Robin Hobb | |
| a492ad3 | 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.. | heart-of-the-pack | Robin Hobb | |
| b591872 | 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. | Robin Hobb | ||
| 46df84f | 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. | Robin Hobb | ||
| f550ab6 | 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. | fool hap hunt nighteyes song wolf-of-the-west | Robin Hobb | |
| 25cff68 | 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. | Robin Hobb | ||
| e427ee5 | It doesn't work that way. Silencing memories does not make them stop existing. Events cannot be undone by forgetting them. | Robin Hobb | ||
| b1565f2 | 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.. | Robin Hobb | ||
| 4d3ddb1 | 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.. | marriage sacrifice | Robin Hobb | |
| f550a72 | 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. | Robin Hobb | ||
| e5a5cb0 | 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. | death denial effect forever itch knowledge life mutilated pain result unimaginable wound | Robin Hobb | |
| 957e906 | 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 .. | fate | Robin Hobb | |
| ab89e08 | 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. | Robin Hobb | ||
| 109db25 | 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. | laugh-out-loud philosophy | Robin Hobb | |
| 0b12a41 | Trying not to believe things when in your heart you are almost sure they are true, is as bad for the temper as anything I know. | hypocrisy madness positive-thinking theory-of-consequences | E. Nesbit | |
| e0ef919 | Being editors is not the best way to wealth. We all feel this now, and highwaymen are not respected any more like they used to be. | E. Nesbit | ||
| 8dfd5c2 | When you are young so many things are difficult to believe, and yet the dullest people will tell you that they are true--such things, for instance, as that the earth goes round the sun, and that it is not flat but round. But the things that seem really likely, like fairy-tales and magic, are, so say the grown-ups, not true at all. Yet they are so easy to believe, especially when you see them happening. And, as I am always telling you, the m.. | E. Nesbit | ||
| 4dc5c44 | We went through all the usual exchanges dictated by Hollywood and polite society. She tried to scream and bite the palm of my hand, and I told her to be quiet because I wasn't going to hurt her unless she shouted. She shouted and I hurt her. Pretty standard stuff, really. | Hugh Laurie | ||
| 20f1c97 | Of course, they hadn't really been happier at all. But they 'd been days, and they'd had Sarah in them, and that was near enough. | Hugh Laurie | ||
| 580ce3d | Because what does it mean, to say that things aren't going well? Compared to what? You can say: compared to how things were going a couple of hours ago, or a couple of years ago. But that's not the point. If two cars are speeding towards a brick wall with no brakes, and one car hits the wall moments before the other, you can't spend those moments saying the second car is much better off than the first. Death and disaster are at our shoulder.. | Hugh Laurie | ||
| 1425b78 | Hugh Laurie (playing Mr. Palmer) felt the line 'Don't palm all your abuses [of language upon me]' was possibly too rude. 'It's in the book,' I said. He didn't hit me. | books jane-austen language movies screenplays writing | Emma Thompson | |
| b896d0a | Random Acts of Kindness," he said. "You need some in your life. Everybody does." "No, I don't have much of a rak, but hey, this is the twenty-third century, you can get anything fixed if you have enough money." | Peter F. Hamilton | ||
| 31defcb | Hindsight must surely be the most useless function of the human brain, torturing yourself over the unalterable past. | Peter F. Hamilton | ||
| dccafed | In December 2008, I had the book with me while we waited for Dr. O'Reilly. Mom had already finished it. Every time I put the book down to go grab some mocha, or check my email, or make a call, I returned to find Mom rereading it, sneakily wolfing down passages as though I'd left behind a bag of cookies, not a book, and she was scooping up crumbs behind my back. | Will Schwalbe | ||
| 2cba608 | And there's something you can always tell people who want to learn more about the world and who don't know how to find a cause to support. You can always tell them to read. | Will Schwalbe | ||
| 1a98bd1 | If you stayed at home, you might not get the opportunity to go to that place again. But if you went, you could always com back. | Will Schwalbe | ||
| c4fbc48 | I used to say that the greatest gift you could ever give anyone is a book. But I don't say that anymore because I no longer think it's true. I now say that a book is the second greatest gift. I've come to believe that the greatest gift you can give people is to take the time to talk with them about a book you've shared. A book is a great gift; the gift of your interest and attention is even greater. | Will Schwalbe | ||
| 7efa69d | Everybody gets married. It's something you have to do, like dying. | Rita Mae Brown | ||
| 015fdb1 | Well, we're just All-American queers. | Rita Mae Brown | ||
| c34bf1c | I'm not an addictive personality, I just like getting high, that's all. | Rita Mae Brown | ||
| e4b4238 | Nationalism is a self-constructed cage in which family members can huddle in safety when they're not growling and barking at someone outside the cage. | Charles Simic | ||
| dd00544 | The lights of the city streaked off below him like the luminous spokes of a warped wheel. An indistinctly outlined, pearly moon seemed to drip down the sky, like a clot of incandescent tapioca thrown up against the night by a cosmic comic. He lit the after-the-dance, while-waiting-for-her-to-come-back cigarette. He felt good, looking down at the town that had nearly had him licked once. "I'm all set now," he thought. "I'm young. I've got lo.. | Cornell Woolrich | ||
| 1c3153b | Here the first of the things that happened, happened. The first of the things important enough to notice and to remember afterward, among a great many trifling but kindred ones that were not. Some so slight they were not more than gloating, zestful glints of eye or curt hurtful gestures. (Once he accidentally poured a spurt of scalding tea on the back of a waitress' wrist, by not waiting long enough for the waitress to withdraw her hand in .. | omen remorse sadist | Cornell Woolrich | |
| 74c49ff | But that's the Way, and there is no other. And once his mind's made up, the trembling and aimless walking stops, and he can look doom in the face without flinching. ("Jane Brown's Body")" -- | fearlessness resolute resolve | Cornell Woolrich |