Robin Hobb quotes

Robin Hobb is an acclaimed American fantasy author, best known for her Realm of the Elderlings series. Her richly detailed worlds and deep character development have earned her a devoted global readership. She continues to influence modern fantasy literature with her compelling storytelling. Here are 76 of her quotes:

The fight isn't over until you win. (Robin Hobb)
Too late to apologize, I've already forgiven you. View quote
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Wolves have no kings. View quote
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Home is people. Not a place. If you go back there after the people are gone, then all you can see is what is not there any more. View quote
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The man who must brag for himself knows that no one else will. View quote
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Look forward, not back. Correct your course and go on. You cannot undo yesterday's journey. View quote
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Someday is someday, and maybe it will be or maybe it won't. This is a human thing, to worry about things that may or may not come to be. You can't eat meat until you've killed it. View quote
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Learning is never wrong. Even learning how to kill isn't wrong. Or right. It's just a thing to learn, a thing I can teach you. That's all. View quote
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When considering a man's motives, remember you must not measure his wheat with your bushel. He may not be using the same standard at all. View quote
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Everyone thinks that courage is about facing death without flinching. But almost anyone can do that. Almost anyone can hold their breath and not scream for as long as it takes to die. True courage is about facing life without flinching. I don't mean the times when the right path is hard, but glorious at the end. I'm talking about enduring the boredom, the messiness, and the inconvenience of doing what is right. View quote
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A woman of many talents. And intelligent, too. He'd probably have to kill her soon. (Robin Hobb)
One can only walk so far from one's true self before the bond either snaps, or pulls one back. View quote
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How do you politely explain to someone that you had believed for years he was a moron as well as a Fool? Fitz in Assassin's Apprentice. View quote
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Sometimes a man doesn't know how badly he's hurt until someone else probes the wound. View quote
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No. This is right. I feel it. I am the Catalyst, and I came to change all things. Prophets become warriors, dragons hunt as wolves. Fitz in Assassin's Quest. View quote
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Diplomacy is the velvet glove that cloaks the fist of power. View quote
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History is no more fixed and dead than the future. The past is no further away than the last breath you took. View quote
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When you spring to an idea, and decide it is truth, without evidence, you blind yourself to other possibilities. View quote
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There is a dead spot in the night, that coldest, blackest time when the world has forgotten evening and dawn is not yet a promise. A time when it is far too early to arise, but so late that going to bed makes small sense. View quote
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That is the trick of good government. To make folk desire to live in such a way that there is no need for its intervention. View quote
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You seek a false comfort when you demand that I define myself for you with words. Words do not contain or define any person. A heart can, if it is willing. (Robin Hobb)
But a living is not a life. View quote
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For the weakest has but to try his strength to find it, and then he shall be strong. View quote
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Men of passion and vision are often seen as mad. View quote
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No man is so dangerous as the man who cannot decide what he fears. View quote
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