Top 100 Fitz Quotes
#1. I have said it before. You are too cautious, Fitz. What if this, what if that? You hide from trouble that may never knock at our door.
Robin Hobb
#3. I have to let you go,' he said in a cracked whisper. 'While I can. Leave me that, Fitz. That I broke the bond. That I did not take what was not mine.
Robin Hobb
#4. For he of all men knew how dangerously stubborn Henry Fitz Empress could be.
There were faint bloodstains upon the tiles in Canterbury Cathedral testifying to that.
Sharon Kay Penman
#5. Oh, Darcy!' Fitz grabbed Darcy by the collar. 'You have such a way with the ladies.
Elizabeth Eulberg
#6. I called my cat William because no shorter name fits the dignity of his character. Poor old man, he has fits now, so I call him Fitz-William.
Josh Billings
#7. 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."
p. 293 Fitz to Bee
Robin Hobb
#8. 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
Robin Hobb
#9. The fight isn't over until you win, Fitz. That's all you have to remember. No matter what the other man thinks. Or the horse.
Robin Hobb
#10. Winston was an odd mix, Fitz thought: aristocrat and man of the people, a brilliant administrator who could never resist meddling in other people's departments, a charmer who was disliked by most of his political colleagues.
Ken Follett
#11. Fitz, you are angry. I can feel it like storm waves lashing my shores.
Robin Hobb
#12. Be careful with your beak,' I chided her. She turned her shining eyes on me. 'I am careful, stupid Fitz.
Robin Hobb
#13. And for the Doctor, time is literally running out. He knows that Compassion is dying. He's aware that he has lost his own ability to regenerate. He's worried by Fitz's fake German accent.
Andy Lane
#14. Ugh, they've been at it all day," Fitz grumbled. "It's been hours of 'Look - I'm invisible. Now I'm not! Now I am!'" Biana rolled her eyes as she reappeared. "Like you were any less annoying with your 'I can tell you what you're thinking right now! And now! And now!
Shannon Messenger
#15. I know that I was a total jerk for a few weeks. But I do trust you," Fitz told Sophie. "I hope you trust me.
Shannon Messenger
#17. And I'm the only one with a plan," Fitz reminded them.
"Hey- I've got plans," Keefe argued.
"Plans that don't involve tormenting Dame Alina," Fitz clarified.
"But those are always the best plans!
Shannon Messenger
#18. The fight isn't over until you win it, Fitz. That's all you have to remember. No matter what the other man says.
Robin Hobb
#19. Fitz's door was closed, so she knocked before going in.
"I told you, Mr. Snuggles's visiting hours are over," he called through the door.
"What about your visiting hours?" she asked.
"Oh! I thought you were Keefe."
Sophie opened the door. "I get that a lot.
Shannon Messenger
#20. To Fitz and the Fool.
My best friends for over twenty years.
Robin Hobb
#21. Let me guess," Eric says, "You never meant for it to happen."
"Hell, yes, I did. I've wanted her since you two started dating."
Surprised, Eric blinks at me, and then even laughs a little. "I know."
"You did?"
"For God's sake, you're about as subtle as Hiroshima, Fitz." He sighs.
Jodi Picoult
#22. It's easy to do the right thing when it doesn't cost you. Not as easy to do the right thing when your back is to the wall." Fitz
Jim Butcher
#23. I still can't understand how Cecil and my old tutor, Fitz, got along so well, when we often called Fitz 'the Genius' and avoided calling Cecil anything at all, so as not to be rude.
Franny Billingsley
#24. Fitz pulled her forward, and the warm tingling in her hand shot through her body
like a million feathers swelling underneath her skin, tickling her from the inside out.
Shannon Messenger
#25. Wow, Fitz breathed, and Sophie hoped he meant the river trick
but it was hard to tell with the way he was staring at Linh.
Shannon Messenger
#26. I have found the old adages to be true. One can only walk so far from one's true self before the bond either snaps, or pulls one back. I am fortunate. I have been pulled back. I walk once more in trueness to myself."
p. 177: Kettricken to Fitz:
Robin Hobb
#27. Fitz!' Motley greeted me. 'Hello, stupid!' she added. The
Robin Hobb
#28. Maud had feared this. Fitz was no compromiser. He believed that Britain should issue orders and the world should obey. The idea that the government might have to negotiate with others as equals was abhorrent to him. And there were distressingly many who agreed.
Ken Follett
#29. The idea of calling this guy "dude" was ridiculous. His low, crisp voice sounded faintly English, definitely like he'd been raised somewhere outside the U.S. He was no more a dude than Fitz was a ballerina.
Suleikha Snyder
#30. Fitz yawned, and she patted Mr. Snuggles on the head as she stood to leave. He mumbled something, the words too sleepy to be coherent. But Sophie could've sworn he'd said, Miss you.
Shannon Messenger
#31. Eric kisses me so tenderly that it unravels me. I kiss him back, trying to find the same depth of faith. I kiss him back, although I can still taste Fitz, like a stolen candy tucked high against my cheek, sweet when I least expect it.
Jodi Picoult
#32. The Dawn Wall and the Fitz Traverse were super-satisfying climbs. But I will always be searching for the next thing - the need to accomplish and explore are just woven into the fabric of who I am.
Tommy Caldwell
#33. I could almost see the resignation on the old man's face. I knew he would draw a breath and sigh that I insisted on stacking all my pain in one pile, facing it all at once."
p. 480 Fitz about Chade
Robin Hobb
#34. Sometimes," he observed obliquely, "you have to trust people to understand you are not perfect.""
"p. 267: Chade to Fitz
Robin Hobb
#35. I always knew Fitz would wind up writing; although I figured he'd be a poet or a storyteller. He would play with language the way other children played with stones and twigs, building structures for the rest of us to decorate with our imagination.
Jodi Picoult
#36. You should have asked me! You should have asked me!" I hated the tears that suddenly flooded my eyes and how my throat closed and choked me. I didn't want to be sad. I wanted to be angry. Angry hurt less."
p. 501 Bee to Fitz
Robin Hobb
#37. Fitz: Shall we get up tomorrow and go looking for a wild pig?
Nighteyes: I didn't lose any wild pigs, did you?
Robin Hobb
#38. 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.
Robin Hobb
#39. Miz Fitz,
If my boyfriend would just once say "I'm sorry, I was wrong," I think I would die and go to heaven.
-Hellbound, a Lass
Miz Fitz sez:
You should wish for something realistic, like world peace.
Pete Hautman
#40. 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
Robin Hobb
#41. Fitz Allen had 'traveled;' and that is generally understood to mean to go abroad and remain a period of time long enough to grow a fierce beard, and fierce mustache, and cultivate a thorough contempt for everything in your own country.
Fanny Fern
#43. She loved his seriousness. Most men, even quite clever ones, became silly when they talked to women. Walter spoke to her just as intelligently as he spoke to Robert or Fitz, and - even more unusually - he listened to her answers.
Ken Follett
#44. We are here, Fitz, you and I, to change the future of the world. To reach out and hold in place the tiny pebble that could trigger the boulder's tumbling.
Robin Hobb
#45. My name is Harry Dresden," I said.
Fitz stumbled. "Holy shit," he said. "Like ... that Harry Dresden? The professional wizard?"
"The one and only."
He recovered his pace and shook his head. "I heard you were dead."
"Well, yeah," I said, "but I'm taking it in stride.
Jim Butcher
#46. Dear Miz Fitz,
My boyfriend is superhot so a lot of girls think up reasons to talk to him. It drives me ...
... Out of my Mind
Miz Fitz sez:
Maybe he is too hot for you. Send me his photo, name, and phone number. I will check him out and get back to you.
Pete Hautman
#47. They love their land, because it is their own, And scorn to give aught other reason why; Would shake hands with a king upon his throne, And think it kindness to his majesty. - Fitz
Fitz-Greene Halleck
#48. Does anything feel worse than being angry with people you love?"
"P. 307: Fitz to Chade
Robin Hobb
#49. Fitz did not censor her mail but, as the head of the family, he had the right to read any letter addressed to a female relative living in his house. No respectable woman would object.
Ken Follett
#50. But to Fitz she'd always be invisible. An impossible task of face and body for which he had yet to conquer. And should he somehow manage to crack her open like rotten fruit on the vine, he'd only find decay and ugliness, from which she had to assume he'd run. Damaged goods were damaged goods.
L. Donsky-Levine
#51. Fitz: How bad is it?
Nighteyes: Mind your own business.
Fitz: You ARE my business.
Nighteyes: Sharing pain doesn't loosen it.
Fitz: I'm not sure about THAT.
Robin Hobb
#52. Have you ever stood on a sandy beach when the tide is coming in? Felt the waves come up around your feet and suck the sand from under you. That's my life now. With every day, I feel I sink deeper into uncertainty."
p. 628 The Fool to Fitz
Robin Hobb
#53. Ah, Fitz, you should know by now that every moment of my life is spent dancing. And with every partner, I tread a different measure.
Robin Hobb
#54. I cannot spare the luxury of believing that all things beautiful are what they seem.
Fitz-Greene Halleck
#56. And Burns
though brief the race he ran,
Though rough and dark the paths he trod,
Lived
died
in form and soul a man,
The image of his God.
Fitz-Greene Halleck
#57. Creativity varies inversely with the number of cooks involved in the broth.
Bernice Fitz-Gibbon
#59. Strike-for your altars and your fires;
Strike-for the green graves of your sires;
God-and your native land!
Fitz-Greene Halleck
#60. In absolute incommunicableness it stood apart, a thought, a system of thought which as yet had no symbol in spoken language
Fitz Hugh Ludlow
#62. We are the sum of all we have done added to the sum of all that has been done to us.
Robin Hobb
#63. There is an evening twilight of the heart, When its wild passion-waves are lulled to rest.
Fitz-Greene Halleck
#64. I thought we had lost you. I thought we'd done something worse than let you die.' His old arms were tight and strong about me.
I was kind to the old man. I did not tell him they had.
Robin Hobb
#65. What is man's love? His vows are broke even while his parting kiss is warm.
Fitz-Greene Halleck
#66. It is a rich storehouse for those who love quotations. It is as full of fine bon mots as a Christmas pudding is full of plums.
Fitz-Greene Halleck
#68. It is this process of symbolization which, in certain hasheesh states, gives every tree and house, every pebble and leaf, every footprint, feature, and gesture, a significance beyond mere matter or form, which possesses an inconceivable force of tortures or of happiness.
Fitz Hugh Ludlow
#69. Wide gape the gates of yellowed bone. A tongue of plank is our path between the teeth as we walk toward the gullet. Here I will be devoured. This is a true thing, near unavoidable on any path. I must enter those jaws.
Robin Hobb
#70. We love the night and its quiet; and there is no night that we love so well as that on which the moon is coffined in clouds.
Fitz-James O'Brien
#71. This wine is grand. This poison is grand. It is fine to have good wine to drink, and good poison to kill with, is it not?
("The Wondersmith")
Fitz-James O'Brien
#72. There is reason to fear that men love better to investigate how muslins, hay-rakes, and, above all and inclusive of all, money may be made, than how their own minds are constructed
Fitz Hugh Ludlow
#73. And thou art terrible
the tear,
The groan, the knell, the pall, the bier;
And all we know, or dream, or fear
Of agony, are thine.
Fitz-Greene Halleck
#74. I was afraid that a bee had flown into my pants, and I thought the bee was going to sting me, and so i yelled out in terror.
Ezra Fitz
#75. He gave a final shake of his coat. I go to the hunt!
Robin Hobb
#77. Those were some astounding lies, cub. And the very last one the most inspired of all. You have your father's talent for it.
Robin Hobb
#79. A good ad should be like a good sermon: It must not only comfort the afflicted, it also must afflict the comfortable.
Bernice Fitz-Gibbon
#80. I feared my own kind more than anything the natural world could ever threaten me with.
Robin Hobb
#81. Sparkles also make everything better. Well, except alicorn poop."
"I don't know. I think sparkly poop is way better than regular poop."
"That's because you've never fallen into a pile of it.
Shannon Messenger
#82. The knowledge that he had left me with no intent ever to return had come over me in tiny droplets of realization spread over the years. And each droplet of comprehension brought its own small measure of hurt.
Robin Hobb
#83. There are a thousand ways in which his neighbours can evaporate the essence which is all in all to him, while they at the same time give to his scenery ponderable value which to them is worth far more
Fitz Hugh Ludlow
#84. Advertising prods people into wanting more and better things. Of course advertising makes people dissatisfied with what they have - makes them raise their sights. Mighty good thing it does. Nothing could be worse for the United States than 200,000,000 satisfied Americans.
Bernice Fitz-Gibbon
#85. Ere the dolphin dies
Its hues are brightest. Like an infant's breath
Are tropic winds before the voice of death.
Fitz-Greene Halleck
#87. Somewhere in the back of my mind, Nighteyes was frantic. 'Poisoned. That water is poisoned.' I couldn't frame a thought to reassure him.
Robin Hobb
#90. We were both smiling, in that bittersweet way one does when imagining something the heart longs for and the head would dread.
Robin Hobb
#91. Yet if there be one voice which can speak from the gateway of a dangerous avenue to its satisfaction, that can say, "Ho there! pass by; I have tried this way; it leads at last into poisonous wildernesses," in the name of Heaven let it be raised.
Fitz Hugh Ludlow
#92. Teenagers travel in droves, packs, swarms ... To the librarian, they're a gaggle of geese. To the cook, they're a scourge of locusts. To department stores, they're a big beautiful exaltation of larks ... all lovely and loose and jingly.
Bernice Fitz-Gibbon
#93. To be a success in advertising you must want to fill other people with a passion for possession.
Bernice Fitz-Gibbon
#94. Of course advertising creates wants. Of course it makes people discontented, dissatisfied. Satisfaction with things as they are would defeat the American Dream.
Bernice Fitz-Gibbon
#95. You must think I'm a total idiot."
"Nah. I am starting to wonder if you're trying to beat Keefe's record for biggest interspeciesial episode- and if you are, I'm pretty sure you've won. The Great Gulon Incident was epic, but it didn't almost start a war.
Shannon Messenger
#96. Brandy, which is fallen and accursed wine, as devils are fallen and accursed angels ...
("The Wondersmith")
Fitz-James O'Brien
#97. There's something stalking us. Off to the side of the road, moving through the forest.'
Kettricken smiled.
Robin Hobb
#98. Creativity often consists of merely turning up what is already there. Did you know that right and left shoes were thought up only a little more than a century ago?
Bernice Fitz-Gibbon
#99. To a traveler paying his first visit, [San Francisco] has the interest of a new planet. It ignores the meteorological laws which govern the rest of the world.
Fitz Hugh Ludlow
#100. Come to the bridal-chamber, Death!
Come to the mother's, when she feels,
For the first time, her first-born's breath!
Come when the blessed seals
That close the pestilence are broke,
And crowded cities wail its stroke!
Fitz-Greene Halleck
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