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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 564c9b2 | One part braggart to one part coward. He would fear everyone he did not control. And the next day he would fear those he controlled even more. | regal | Robin Hobb | |
| fc90d3e | La mort nous guette et elle est toujours assuree de sa prise. Il ne sert a rien d'y songer sans cesse, mais, dans nos entrailles dans nos os, nous savons tous qu'elle est la. Tous sauf les humains. | Robin Hobb | ||
| 55ec362 | languorously, | Robin Hobb | ||
| b6e135d | Burrich the Stablemaster, the man who raised me, once warned me, "When you cut pieces from the truth to avoid sounding like a fool, you end up sounding like a moron instead." I" | Robin Hobb | ||
| 380dd97 | Pain is the coin they use now in all their transactions. Nothing else teaches them, nothing else will satisfy them. | Robin Hobb | ||
| 48d9964 | Nor is there any special wisdom in injuring oneself over and over. What is your loyalty to that pain? To abandon it will not lessen you | Robin Hobb | ||
| 4a19103 | You can see me!" I gave him a nod and a smile. | Robin Hobb Fool's Quest | ||
| b5f6dfa | It's all my fault,' I confessed to her. | Robin Hobb Fool's Quest | ||
| 93e00bd | Dragons that, like butterflies, have two stages to their lives. They hatch from eggs into sea serpents. They roam the seas, growing to a vast size. And when the time is right, when enough years have passed that they have attained dragon size, they migrate back to the home of their ancestors. The adult dragons would welcome them and escort them up the rivers. There, they spin their cocoons of sand - sand that is ground memory-stone - and the.. | Robin Hobb | ||
| 34a7cdb | One way to disperse fear and create decision was to consider the worst possible outcome of one's actions. | life-decision | Robin Hobb | |
| dd1de7b | perspicacious | Robin Hobb | ||
| f76a77f | Something killed them. Long ago. I don't know exactly what. Some great cataclysm of the earth, that buried whole cities in a matter of days. It sank the coast, drowning harbour towns, and changed the courses of rivers. It wiped out the dragons, and I think it killed the Elderlings as well. | Robin Hobb | ||
| 23b4d81 | They also found the cocooned dragons. They had no idea that was what they were, of course. They thought ... who knows what they thought at first? Perhaps they seemed like massive sections of tree trunks. So they refer to it: wizardwood. | Robin Hobb | ||
| acb4ce3 | Discover where you are now, and go on from there, making the best of things. Accept your life, and you might survive it. If you hold back from it, insisting this is not your life, not where you are meant to be, life will pass you by. You may not die from such foolishness, but you might as well be dead for all the good your life will do you or anyone else. | Robin Hobb | ||
| 60c5ae0 | I should live each day as if it were significant, as if everyday the fate of the world depended on my action. | Robin Hobb | ||
| bda932b | Sometimes, when one goes back to the scene of one's childhood, things seem smaller. What was mysterious and the sole province of adults suddenly seems commonplace and mundane when viewed with mature eyes. | Robin Hobb | ||
| ba07645 | Happy comes and goes, Tats. Loving someone isn't that crazy infatuation that you feel at first. That passes. Well, not passes, but it calms down, and then sometimes, when you least expect it, you get a glimpse of the person and it all comes back again, in a big rush. | Robin Hobb | ||
| d480129 | Coming up. A large tawny cat announced this to me at the same moment that he effortlessly elevated onto my lap. I stared at him in surprise. | Robin Hobb | ||
| 9333e38 | Understanding how or why is very seldom as useful as understanding that things are. I am. | Robin Hobb | ||
| 564b289 | They need other people to make them think they're alive. They only feel like they're important if someone else tells them they are. | Robin Hobb | ||
| 07c7ef5 | Jovem como eu era, perguntava-me que especie de homem era este que, com uma perna enfaixada, conseguia impor respeito a um recinto cheio de homens duroes, com apenas um olhar ou uma palavra. | Robin Hobb | ||
| 40a31bc | Tivessem eles sido caes, teriam me farejado, afastado-se a seguir, mas os humanos nao tem dessas cortesias inatas. | Robin Hobb | ||
| 1740bc5 | Sa help us all, but I plan to give her free rein and let her be as unpleasant and bitchy as only she knows how. | Robin Hobb | ||
| 62b28a8 | I'm proud of you. It's not the kind of work a man does that says he can be proud or not. It's how he does it. Be proud of yourself. | Robin Hobb | ||
| 44b85be | I became a slightly daft traveler, obsessed with beekeeping and professing to know all there was to know on the topic. I started arguments so others would correct me and speak of beekeepers they had known. | Robin Hobb | ||
| edb59e7 | I found my voice. 'I'm going to--' | Robin Hobb Fool's Quest | ||
| 7c7aded | After being shown the demesne by Pikeman, and consulting with him at length, the elders had expressed their willingness to bring their fellows to live and work in Bourne on the same terms that My Lord had agreed with his own serfs. Hugh watched in disbelief as Bourne signed a writ, prepared by Thurkell, which not only granted them extra land but rights of access to education, medicine and a meal of meat every seven days. It was a word in di.. | Minette Walters | ||
| 3a7d597 | After being shown the demesne by Pikeman, and consulting with him at length, the elders had expressed their willingness to bring their fellows to live and work in Bourne on the same terms that My Lord had agreed with his own serfs. Hugh watched in disbelief as Bourne signed a writ, prepared by Thurkell, which not only granted them extra land but rights of access to education, medicine and a meal of meat every seven days. It was a world in d.. | Minette Walters | ||
| e7aacf5 | arms. Had he not believed it necessary | Minette Walters | ||
| 0b36712 | Her worst terrors came during the night. She could believe in herself in daylight, but alone in the pitch-blackness of the cellar she doubted her very existence. However hard she strained to see the walls and the floor, even her hand before her face, there was only darkness. And the darkness was more alive than she was. | Minette Walters | ||
| 949e682 | Hi,' Winifred Minette said to her husband. Socrates imagined all of the sweet knowledge buried in her hello. It made him happy. | Walter Mosley | ||
| 6e069f2 | It will be as if we never existed if our history cannot be read. | legacy life-quotes memory remember writing-down | Minette Walters | |
| 68194ef | Fesaunt excedeth all fowles in sweetnesse and holsomnesse, and is equall to capon in nourishynge. | Birds | ||
| ecac0e1 | No, it's not French," said Peter. "Try him with French if you know so much about it," said the farmer-man. "Parlay voo Frongsay?" began Peter, boldly, and the next moment the crowd recoiled again, for the man with the wild eyes had left leaning against the wall, and had sprung forward and caught Peter's hands, and begun to pour forth a flood of words which, though he could not understand a word of them, Peter knew the sound of." | E. Nesbit | ||
| 3969fbc | And there's 'Three Chimneys' done in the purple primroses," said Phyllis. "And that little tiny rose-bud is Mother looking out for us when we're late for tea. Peter invented it all, and we got all the flowers from the station. We thought you'd like it better." | E. Nesbit | ||
| 7da1b4d | Psammead | E. Nesbit | ||
| 11a62ed | The 9.15 up was called the Green Dragon. The 10.7 down was the Worm of Wantley. The midnight town express, whose shrieking rush they sometimes woke from their dreams to hear, was the Fearsome Fly-by-night. | E. Nesbit | ||
| 5c0ea4d | It was by the Green Dragon that the old gentleman travelled. He was a very nice-looking old gentleman, and he looked as if he were nice, too, which is not at all the same thing. He had a fresh-coloured, clean-shaven face and white hair, and he wore rather odd-shaped collars and a top-hat that wasn't exactly the same kind as other people's. | E. Nesbit | ||
| 93bccc8 | I say," Phyllis suggested, "let's all wave to the Green Dragon as it goes by. If it's a magic dragon, it'll understand and take our loves to Father. And if it isn't, three waves aren't much. We shall never miss them." | E. Nesbit | ||
| a27a1a4 | And out of a first-class carriage a hand waved back. A quite clean hand. It held a newspaper. It was the old gentleman's hand. After this it became the custom for waves to be exchanged between the children and the 9.15. | E. Nesbit | ||
| f2e5ac0 | You will think that they ought to have been very happy. And so they were, but they did not know HOW happy till the pretty life in the Red Villa was over and done with, and they had to live a very different life indeed. The | E. Nesbit | ||
| a29c65d | My Lamb, you are so very small, You have not learned to read at all; Yet never a printed book withstands The urgence of your dimpled hands. So, though this book is for yourself, Let mother keep it on the shelf Till you can read. O days that pass, That day will come too soon, alas! | E. Nesbit | ||
| 027adf8 | The house was three miles from the station, but, before the dusty hired hack had rattled along for five minutes, the children began to put their heads out of the carriage window and say, "Aren't we nearly there?" | E. Nesbit | ||
| a0c0ddb | Gloire de Dijon | E. Nesbit |