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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| c511c04 | Those were some astounding lies, cub. And the very last one the most inspired of all. You have your father's talent for it. | lies love cub fitz nighteyes fool | Robin Hobb | |
| a4f5907 | He gave a final shake of his coat. 'I go to the hunt! | nighteyes the-hunt fool | Robin Hobb | |
| 806e7fc | Seldom can one hate a person if one understand that person. | Robin Hobb | ||
| fc799c8 | He spoke solemnly. "This is our last hunt, old wolf. And as we always have, we go to it together." | Robin Hobb | ||
| 21a65e0 | Just tell me. Do I break the future? -Oh, child. We all do. That is both the danger and the hope of life. That each of us changes the world, every day. | Robin Hobb | ||
| 4a5a76d | it's strange, isn't it, how you don't know how big a part of you someone is until they're threatened? And then you think you can't possibly go on if something happens to them, but the most frightening part is that, actually, you will go on, you'll have to go on, with them or without them. There's just no telling what you'll become | risk fear change heart love truth realization see understand result realize outcome worry danger threaten soul | Robin Hobb | |
| 369b603 | Be the night. Not the wind that stirs the trees, not even the soundless owl a-wing or the tiny mouse crouched motionless. Be the night that flows over all, touching without being felt. For night is a cat. | Robin Hobb | ||
| 1278e5c | To sate your need without love is theft | love | Robin Hobb | |
| 9f18035 | Do you think you're taking Etta out of here?" "Yes," Kennit called over his shoulder up the sairs. | Robin Hobb | ||
| ddbc039 | A man's deep friendships were the most important thing he could possess. Things can be broken, or lost. All a man can keep for certain are the things in his mind and heart. | Robin Hobb | ||
| 9de0928 | You can't play in shit and not get some on you. | Robin Hobb | ||
| af9f099 | Don't go mooning after the stars, when the wide sea is all around you. It's a sky of its own, you know. | sky | Robin Hobb | |
| 8967c75 | In politics, appearance matters more than truth. | Robin Hobb | ||
| fa766e2 | Did you feel that?' I asked him. He smiled sadly. 'Fitz, I have never needed to touch you to feel that. It was always there. No limits. | love no-limits | Robin Hobb | |
| 8b3d4ce | Such a storm of emotions as humans can evoke, all on the basis of imagination," the dragon observed condescendingly. In a more reflective voice she asked, "Do you do this because you live such short lives? Tell yourselves wild tales of what might happen tomorrow, and feel all the feelings of events that will never happen? Perhaps to make up for the pasts you cannot recall, you invent futures that will not exist." | Robin Hobb | ||
| 808718c | 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-judgement. | Robin Hobb | ||
| ec34380 | He shook his head slowly. "I am not the person I was born. Neither are you. I know no one who is. Truly, Fitz, all we ever know are facets of one another. Perhaps we feel as if we know one another well when we know several facets of that person. Father, son, brother, friend, lover, husband... a man can be all of those things, yet no one person knows him in all of those roles. I watch you being Hap's father, and yet I do not know you as I kn.. | Robin Hobb | ||
| 8d93b80 | there is no sense in trying to play that game with the past. Here is where we are today, and we can only make our moves from here. | Robin Hobb | ||
| 6418bfa | Do not pull back from the pain and imagine that makes you strong. Look at it, you dolt! It is trying to tell you what is wrong so you can fix it. | Robin Hobb | ||
| df5a512 | When you cut pieces out of the truth to avoid looking like a fool, you end up sounding like a moron instead. | truth dissemble moron reveal hide lie fool | Robin Hobb | |
| 2abd84c | This was a young man who had killed, but never before been in imminent danger of being killed. I felt oddly qualified to introduce him to the sensation. | Robin Hobb | ||
| 4fe9864 | How much do you understand?' I demanded of her one afternoon. She cocked her head at me, met my gaze and demanded, 'How much do YOU understand? | Robin Hobb | ||
| b066fac | No one can have so little that someone else can find nothing to envy. Poverty and simplicity were not shields from the greed of others. If you had nothing left to steal, they'd take your body and enslave it. | Robin Hobb | ||
| a042d6d | Once she would have found him mysterious and alluring. She had grown wiser. Dangerous men were neither romantic nor exotic; they were men who could hurt you. | Robin Hobb | ||
| a69eb7b | And what do you believe?" A slow smile spread over his face. "I believe in you. You are my new beginning." | love believe | Robin Hobb | |
| 20c3d79 | Sometimes I think there is more rest in that place between wakefulness and sleep than there is in true sleep. The mind walks in the twilight of both states, and finds the truths that are hidden alike by daylight and dreams. Things we are not ready to know abide in that place, awaiting that unguarded frame of mind. | Robin Hobb | ||
| 9792dac | There is no such thing as an extraordinary coincidence. There is only destiny. | kennit-sbracelet | Robin Hobb | |
| ea61d9d | No man can return to being a boy. But there are interludes in a man's life when, for a time, he can recapture the feeling that the world is a forgiving place and that he is immortal. | Robin Hobb | ||
| 990c53f | It was possible to be homesick for a time, and to be lonely for the only other person who could recall it. | Robin Hobb | ||
| 9ba9de0 | The Six Duchies would fall. The world would end. We went to fetch blankets. | Robin Hobb | ||
| 6e9c513 | you imagine the worst, and when you do, your mind stops at the problem and does not consider the solution. | Robin Hobb | ||
| c876c6d | 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.... Be very chary of revealing your hoarded secrets. Many lose all power once they have been divulged. Be even more careful of sharing your secrets lest you find yourself a puppet dancing on someone else's strings. | secret trust careful collect discern puppet reveal use utilize wary hide threat power | Robin Hobb | |
| 7a036a1 | This terrible event - whatever it was - is over and done. Cling to it and let it shape you and you are doomed to live it forever. You are granting it power over you. Set it aside, and shape your future as you wish it to be, in spite of what happened to you. Then you have seized control of it. | Robin Hobb | ||
| 9ab70fd | Why're you like that?" the boy persisted. "Like what?" Paragon finally asked in annoyance. "Ya'know. Allus mad. Or crazy fightin' Say'n stuff ta be mean." "How else do you expect me to be?" Paragon retorted. "Joyous that they've dragged me out here? All excited to go off on a hare-brained rescue mission with them?" He felt the boy's shrug. "Ya could be." "I could be?" Paragon snorted. "I'd like to know how." "S'easy. Ya decide t'be." "You d.. | Robin Hobb | ||
| a559e7d | Our darling Roberta, No sorrow shall hurt her If we can prevent it Her whole life long. Her birthday's our fete day, We'll make it our great day, And give her our presents And sing her our song. May pleasures attend her And may the Fates send her The happiest journey Along her life's way. With skies bright above her And dear ones to love her! Dear Bob! Many happy Returns of the day! | E. Nesbit | ||
| 12c5af4 | Out, out, into the night, The belfry bells are ours by right! | E. Nesbit | ||
| 7d05148 | Albert's uncle says I ought to have put this in the preface, but I never read prefaces, and it is not much good writing things just for people to skip. I wonder other authors have never thought of this. | writing skipping | E. Nesbit | |
| 222d85d | She had been to her Great-Aunt Willoughby's before, and she knew exactly what to expect. She would be asked about her lessons, and how many marks she had, and whether she had been a good girl. I can't think why grownup people don't see how impertinent these questions are. Suppose you were to answer: | humour family | E. Nesbit | |
| eed5b56 | Everything was pleasant that day somehow. There are days like that, you know, when everything goes well from the very beginning; all the things you want are in their places, nobody misunderstands you, and all that you do turns out admirably. | E. Nesbit | ||
| 5ed81a9 | Americans have never really caught on to the idea of eating sheep. I think they think it's cissy. | Hugh Laurie | ||
| c307f69 | I once met an RAF pilot who told me of what he called a "bird strike". This, rather unfairly in my view, made it sound as if it was the bird's fault; as if the little feathered chap had deliberately tried to head-butt twenty tons of metal travelling in the opposite direction at just under the speed of sound, out of spite." | Hugh Laurie | ||
| 7d9df82 | Rayner avait sans doute une dizaine d'annees de plus que moi. Ce qui ne pose en soi aucun probleme. J'entretiens des relations chaleureuses, sans bras casses, avec quantite de personnes de cet age. | Hugh Laurie | ||
| b5f4346 | Plus laid aussi qu'un parking | Hugh Laurie | ||
| fdd7b2b | The first two rooms were in the same state as the corridor. Dirty, and piled with junk. Dead typewriters, telephones, three-legged chairs. I was reflecting on the fact that there is nothing in any of the world's great museums that looks quite as ancient as a ten-year-old photocopier, when I heard a noise. | Hugh Laurie |