Top 500 Robin Hobb Quotes (2024 Update)
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451. “Die in your dreams, wake up insane.”

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452. “There is nothing dishonorable about abandoning pain. Sometimes peace is most quickly found when a man simply stops avoiding it.” He shifted slightly in the dark. “And you never again lay awake all night, staring at darkness and thinking of them.”

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453. “But that is not true for all folk. Some folk are meant to argue with fate. And win.”

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454. “For too many, when they get their dream, they discover it is not what they wanted. Or the dream is bigger than their abilities, and all ends in bitterness.”

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455. “Trust is not trust until it is complete.”

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456. “A moment ago you spoke of love without need. To sate your need without love is theft. If you ust have that, hire it done.”

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457. “When had it become so ingrained in her to apologize whenever she wanted something for herself?”

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458. “You are different, Bee. It will make some parts of your life very difficult. But if you always fall back on your differences to explain everything you dislike about the world, you will fall into self-pity.”

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459. “I should live each day as if it were significant, as if everyday the fate of the world depended on my action.”

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460. “Had they been dogs they would have sniffed me over and then drawn back. But humans have no such inbred courtesies.”

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461. “Here we do not believe in wasting time simply for the purpose of impressing others.”

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462. “Never have I heard anything so unnerving as a hardened warrior praying to a god known for his merciless heart.”

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463. “This is a day for things to break, he thought. My heart. The fellowship of the folk who had come here together. We all move apart from one another today.”

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464. “You can roll dice, and understand that the whole game may hinge on one turn of a die. You deal out cards, and say that all a man’s fortune for the night may turn upon one hand. But a man’s whole life, you sniff at, and say, what, this nought of a human, this fisherman, this carpenter, this thief, this cook, why, what can they do in the great wide world? And so you putter and sputter your lives away, like candles burning in a draught.”

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465. “Now, anyone with two thoughts in their mind can see that no future is set in stone. An infinite number of futures bud at the end of every moment, and each one of them can be changed by a falling rose petal.”

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466. “He has had his wish. He will not bow his head.”

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467. “It was well to impress one’s enemies with a show of strength. It was even better to be sure one’s friends remembered it as well.”

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468. “I flew, I hunted, I killed. I am SINTARA!”

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469. “It made me wish there were a place as much me as that place is you. A place I would keep as secret.”

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470. “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. If you think the man is worth it, it works.”

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471. “There are times when not thinking requires all of one’s concentration.”

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472. “It is hard to write down a story that has no sequence or sense, let alone make a picture of what my dream showed me.”

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473. “Sometimes it seems worrying is something I feel like I have to do, that maybe worrying about them actually keeps them alive and real.”

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474. “Time doesn’t stop for her just because you’re gone.”

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475. “When Hap had been ten, it had been so much easier to know that I was doing the right things for him. Feed him well, teach him to fish, see that he had clean clothes and slept well at night. That was most of what a boy needed. A young man was a different animal entirely.”

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476. “It was better to leave the space empty of words than to choose the wrong ones.”

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477. “Children, I have found, are much more swift to accept the unusual. They admit their curiosity, you see, rather than disdaining the object that arouses it.”

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478. “Some memories are best left undisturbed. Sometimes, if you forget something, it’s because it’s better forgotten.”

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479. “He lives day-to-day now, just as we do, fumbling forward down the path to the future.”

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480. “Pain and perfection. It was the only path to redemption he knew.”

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481. “It’s a poor teacher who tries to instruct by blows and threats.”

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482. “Wherever there is change, a clever man can find a profit.”

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483. “One can swiftly understand that for most moments of our lives, we have forgotten almost all of the world around us, except for what currently claims our interest.”

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484. “Vultures and peacocks might both have feathers and beaks, but one did not confuse the two creatures.”

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485. “The weapon we throw away today is the one at our throats tomorrow.”

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486. “The White Prophet and the Catalyst!” she cried in disgust. “Rather name them as they are, the Fool and the Idiot. Of all the careless, foolish things to do!”

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487. “Axes bit wood into pieces and hammers nailed it back together. 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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488. “Her ambitions have always exceeded her abilities.” He paused, and looked directly at Regal. “In royalty, that is a most lamentable failing.”

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489. “Humanity has become a lonely race, and dangerously arrogant in our solitude.”

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490. “I could do as my father did: that is, lift my eyes and meet her gaze and let nothing of what I was thinking show in my face.”

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491. “Stop blaming yourself. Someone deceived you and hurt you. You don’t need to take on the burden of that. The man who committed the offense is at fault, not the person he wronged.”

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492. “Fault has no place in the greater scheme of things, little one. Fault and guilt are as useless as apology once the deed is done. Once the action has been taken, all must endure what follows.”

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493. “You’re not especially strong, or fast, or bright. Don’t think you are. But you’ll have the stubborness to wear down anyone stronger, or faster, or brighter than yourself.”

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494. “No one lives forever,” the walls seemed to say. “Four stones stacked atop one another will outlive all your dreams and still stand when your descendants have long forgotten that you lived here.”

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495. “I sometimes think that age is based more on what you’ve done and what you remember than how old you are.”

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496. “When you speak in riddles, it exasperates me. Yet when you try to speak clearly of yourself, it frightens me.”

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497. “You poor, pathetic bastard,” the charm ground out the slow accusing words. “You’ve become Igrot. Do you know that? To defeat the monster you became the monster.” The tiny voice became even fainter. “You have only yourself to fear now.”

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498. “I bent and kissed his brow in farewell. And then, grasping the rightness of that foreign tradition, I named him as myself. For when I burned him, I knew I would be ending myself, as well. The man I had been would not survive this loss. “Good-bye, FitzChivalry Farseer.”

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499. “And yet it was not Buckkeep that came to my mind, but a meadow overlooking the sea, and a girl in bright red skirts who beckoned me. A time, rather than a place. No road led there anymore.”

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500. “You will change. I think. Not all change is bad. Change is seldom good or bad; it’s only change. A tadpole becomes a frog. A poker is beaten into a blade. A chicken becomes meat. In a dream, I saw a feather slowly hammered into a blade. I saw the hard nut crack and become a mighty tree. I saw the young doe slain and cut into meat. You will become something different tonight.”

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