Fitzchivalry Farseer Quotes

#1. It's too late to apologize for I have already forgiven you. -FitzChivalry Farseer

Robin Hobb

#2. It doesn't have to be that bad,' Chade said quietly. 'Most prisons are of our own making. A man makes his own freedom, too.

Robin Hobb

#3. If it was to be a time of momentous changes, then why not allow oneself to be swept along?

Paul Russell

#4. Not one country in all the world has eliminated its economic participation [gender] gap - not one.

Gayle Tzemach Lemmon

#5. 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

#6. If all I had ever done was to be born and discovered, I would have left a mark across all the land for all time. I grew up fatherless and motherless in a court where all recognized me as a catalyst. And a catalyst I become.

Robin Hobb

#7. 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

#8. Because your heart will be hammered against him, and your strength will be tempered in his fire.

Robin Hobb

#9. 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

#10. Wait for you? Not likely. I've always had to run ahead of you and show you the way.

Robin Hobb

#11. What firefighters and people in our military and cops do is separate from what the rest of us do; basically these people say, 'I'm going to protect all these strangers.'

Denis Leary

#12. The Bible account of the creation of Eve is a preposterous fable.

Thomas Huxley

#13. Whether people like your work or not, but it's also based on a lot of other things - geography, who you happen to connect with and where they sit in that ladder - and all of that felt really isolating and disheartening to me when I figured it out.

Victoria Chang

#14. I am too swift of tongue. But I think that is the best way to talk to a dragon.

Robin Hobb

#15. There are clothes which keep rejuvenating themselves instead of getting worn out.

Roberto Juarroz

#16. Look here,' she began, 'you can't go on like that, you know. If you are really keen on a thing, and it's a good thing, you ought to go and do it. It is no use waiting till people tell you that you may go. Asking permission is a coward's way of shifting responsibility on to some one else.

Winifred Holtby

#17. Chinese workers are not forced into factories because of our insatiable desire for iPods. They choose to leave their homes in order to earn money, to learn new skills and to see the world.

Leslie T. Chang

#18. Cruelty is a skill taught not only by example, but also by experience of it.

Robin Hobb

#19. Nature has no goal in view, and final causes are only human imaginings.

Baruch Spinoza

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

Robin Hobb