1
2
3
5
8
12
20
33
52
83
133
213
340
543
867
1384
2208
3346
3522
5443
5542
5543
5544
5545
5546
5619
6757
7581
8098
8422
8625
8752
8832
8882
8913
8932
8945
8953
8957
8960
8962
8963
8964
8965
▲
▼
| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 2de8720 | There is no path to the future, Fitz. The path is now. Now is all there is, or ever will be. You can change perhaps the next breaths in your life. But after that, random chance seizes you in its jaws again. A tree falls on you, a spider bites your ankle, and all your grand plans for winning a battle are for naught. Now is what we have, Fitz, and now is where we act to stay alive. | future path chance focus | Robin Hobb | |
| 54746f7 | that life was an immense wheel, turning in a set track and that his task was to bump the wheel out of that track and set it on a better one? | Robin Hobb | ||
| 5f86dcc | his touch sketched the window of her freedom as she danced. | Robin Hobb | ||
| cb43ad0 | There is something about you, Etta. Something in you that cannot be quenched, by hardship or ill treatment. Your soul gleams like silver beneath a patina of hard use. He is right to love you. Any man would love you. | Robin Hobb | ||
| f1f8708 | Fun, fun, fun, got you, got you, and got you again! Here, you're dead, here, I broke your forepaw, here, your blood runs out! Got you, got you, got you! | Robin Hobb | ||
| cfc731d | Take all self-determination from a man's life, and all that is left for him to do is complain. | Robin Hobb | ||
| c5fc7ee | I have known beauties and joys that tried my heart's strength as surely as the tragedies and uglinesses have | Robin Hobb | ||
| 30fd9dc | Is it the nature of the world that all things seek a rhythm, and in that rhythm a sort o peace? | Robin Hobb | ||
| e7b5dc6 | People have to attempt to do right, even if they believe they cannot succeed | trying | Robin Hobb | |
| 815d043 | I'll be teaching you the nasty, furtive, polite ways to kill people | Robin Hobb | ||
| c0be966 | As you will, King Fitz. | Robin Hobb | ||
| 29a0c95 | Little brother, do not treat me as if I am already dead, or dying. If you see me that way, then I would rather truly be dead. You steal the now of my life away, when you constantly fear that tomorrow will bring my death. Your fears clutch cold at me and snatch all my pleasure in the day's warmth from me. As he had not in a long time, the wolf suddenly dropped all the barriers between us. I suddenly perceived what I had been hiding from myse.. | Robin Hobb | ||
| c80bf67 | Too much on my mind. Too many directions to think in all at once. I sometimes feel that if I had time to focus my mind on just one problem, I could solve it. And then go on to solve the others." "Every man believes that. It isn't so. Slay the ones you can as they come to hand, and after a while you get used to the ones you can do nothing about." | Robin Hobb | ||
| 47f3a68 | Wait for you? Not likely! I've always had to run ahead of you and show you the way. | Robin Hobb | ||
| 5ee83e8 | I am too swift of tongue. But I think that is the best way to talk to a dragon. | nettle | Robin Hobb | |
| d6c7c8f | Fitz, you are angry. I can feel it like storm waves lashing my shores. | Robin Hobb | ||
| 97841f4 | The puppet dances, He turns flips and he jigs. His painted red smile looks happy but he is screaming, for he performs on red-hot coals. His wooden feet begin to smoke. A man comes in with a shining axe. He swings it. I think he will cut off the puppet's burning feet, but instead the axe cuts all his strings. But the man with the axe falls just as swiftly as the puppet leaps away, free. | Robin Hobb | ||
| c78d14d | Wintrow's words seemed to echo through his bones. Acceptance of what is. That is the shortest path to peace with yourself. This is wisdom. Does it hurt? Does wisdom hurt? Does peace hurt? Does acceptance hurt? ... He could not answer. He was suffused with the boy's simple faith. It rushed through him, warm and reassuring. Of course, he was right. Acceptance. He could not doubt or deny it." P. 190 Kennit" | Robin Hobb | ||
| 854d53f | Se tudo o que eu tivesse feito na vida fosse ter nascido e ser descoberto, ainda assim teria deixado uma marca em toda aquela terra, para todo sempre. Cresci sem pai nem mae, numa corte onde todos me conheciam como um divisor de aguas. E um divisor de aguas eu me tornei. | Robin Hobb | ||
| d7a3c90 | All I ever wanted to do was live my own life. And I'm having damn little success at that." p. 250: Brashen Trell and Amber" | Robin Hobb | ||
| b772a6b | I was sick of strife, and weary of being wary. | Robin Hobb | ||
| 5f59248 | This is philosophy, Fool. I have never had time to study such things.' 'No, Fitz, this is life. And no one has time not to think of such things. Each creature in the world should consider this thing, every moment of the heart's beating. Otherwise, what is the point of arising each day? | thoughts philosophy robin-hobb royal-assassin | Robin Hobb | |
| bbd54d5 | acho que Zar aprendeu a licao. Uma vez queimado, duas reservado. - Hmf. Uma vez deitado, sempre esfomeado seria um ditado melhor para este caso. | Robin Hobb | ||
| 2bf0069 | Um homem armado com a palavra certa pode fazer o que um exercito de espadachins nao pode. | Robin Hobb | ||
| 85648d7 | Even now. Even when I feel like most of me is dead, life breaks through sometimes. Food tastes good. Or something Per says makes me laugh. A hot cup of tea when I'm cold and wet. I've thought of ending my life, Fool. I admit it. But always, no matter the damage to it, the body tries to go on. And if it manages to, then the mind follows it. Eventually, no matter how I try to deny it, there are bits of my life that are still sweet. A conversa.. | Robin Hobb | ||
| 1fd7cbb | Bastard," she spat at him, and she thought he had moved closer. She swung at him, and then suddenly he was where he had been standing all along, the coward." | Robin Hobb | ||
| 88f226d | proigryvat' boi? - vse eshche zadykhaias' sprosil on. - Boi ne zakanchivaetsia, poka ty ego ne vyigral, Fitts. Eto ochen' prosto zapomnit'. Nezavisimo ot togo, chto schitaet drugoi chelovek. | Robin Hobb | ||
| c3b4cf3 | Vim a saber mais tarde que muitos homens veem sempre a boa fortuna dos outros como uma desfeita contra si proprios. | Robin Hobb | ||
| fbeec90 | Nenhum inimigo, bem sabia, e mais temivel do que aquele que ferimos gravemente. | Robin Hobb | ||
| d50a1c4 | Depois daquilo comecei a desejar esclarecer as coisas com o Bobo. Como um dente doloroso, remoi uma e outra vez o que lhe queria dizer. | Robin Hobb | ||
| 1282e66 | Tinha andado a manter um silencio amuado para com ele, esperando avidamente que me perguntasse que bicho me tinha mordido. O problema era que ele nao o fazia. Havera alguma coisa mais provocadora do que esperar que alguem comece uma discussao? | Robin Hobb | ||
| 78d0fff | Nao reconheci a minha voz quando perguntei ao mundo: 'Como pode a coisa mais dificil que ja fiz na vida ser tambem a mais cobarde? | Robin Hobb | ||
| ae17009 | Estamos aqui', respondi, e soltei uma gargalhada. Nunca pensara que a ira e o desespero pudessem fazer um homem rir. | Robin Hobb | ||
| 780f9f3 | E tudo porque eu fora demasiado tolo para ver que aquele que caminha sem saber por entre os segredos de um homem pode mesmo assim ter outros segredos seus. | Robin Hobb | ||
| b78ee69 | e estranho, nao e, como nao se sabe ate que ponto alguem faz parte de nos ate esse alguem ser ameacado? E depois achas que nao ha possibilidade de sobreviveres se alguma coisa lhes acontece, mas a pare mais assustadora e que, na verdade, sobrevives, tens de sobreviver, com eles ou sem eles. Simplesmente nao ha maneira de saberes em que te tornaras. | Robin Hobb | ||
| 5613756 | De que serve uma vida vivida como se nao fizesse qualquer diferenca para a grande vida do mundo? Nao consigo imaginar coisa mais triste. Porque nao haveria uma mae de dizer de si para si, se criar bem esta crianca, se a amar e proteger, ela trara alegria aos qye a rodeiam e assim terei mudado o mundo? Porque nao haveria o lavrador que planta uma semente de dizer ao vizinho, esta semente que planto hoje ira alimentar alguem, e e assim que ho.. | Robin Hobb | ||
| 72becec | I've just been living from day to day. Waiting for something or someone else to change the situation." His eyes studied her face, looking for a reaction to his next words. "I think I need to make a real decision. I believe I need to take action on my own." | Robin Hobb | ||
| 3e0876e | He has had his wish. He will not bow his head. | Robin Hobb | ||
| 8129ed5 | The fire of my burning past sent odd shadows snaking ahead of us as we made our way into the storm's resurgence. | Robin Hobb | ||
| b131232 | Claro que nao sabes (...) E nem sequer queres ver o que esta posto na mesa a tua frente. Homens. Se estivesse a chover sopa, estarias la fora com um garfo. | Robin Hobb | ||
| a9b13c7 | Boys, I decided, simply have a given amount of rudeness they must express. | Robin Hobb | ||
| 6f809da | But all know that a woman cannot give her word to anyone, for women cannot possess honor. Women promise, and later they say, 'I did not understand, I did not mean it that way, I thought those words meant something else.' So a woman's word is without worth. She can break it, and always she does, for she has no honor to defile. | Robin Hobb | ||
| 9942057 | I don't think they're coming. Why must I stand here in the wind and rain?' 'Because it pleases me', Kennit snapped at him. Wintrow thought to intervene. 'You can have my cloak, if you like'. he offered. The Satrap scowled. 'It's dripping wet. What good would that do me?' 'You could be wetter', Kennit snarled. | Robin Hobb | ||
| 08ccbe3 | I'll be glad to get out on the water again, and gladder still to see Divvytown. I knew it was my home port that first time I saw it.' 'The pirate town? Sa save us all. Does someone wait for you, dearie?' Ophelia asked. Jek laughed aloud. 'They all wait for me. They just don't know it yet. | Robin Hobb |