Nighteyes Quotes

#1. 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

#2. 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

#3. 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

#4. We were one thing. A whole thing. You and I and Nighteyes. I felt a strange sort of peace. As if all the parts of me were finally in one place. All the missing bits that would make me a complete... thing.' I shook my head. 'Words don't read that far.

Robin Hobb

#5. Did you see how she stood and faced them down? I demanded with pride. A most excellent bitch, Nighteyes agreed.

Robin Hobb

#6. The death of Nighteyes gutted me. I walked wounded through my life in the days that followed, unaware of just how mutilated I was. I was like the man who complains of the itching of his severed leg. The itching distracts from the immense knowledge that one will forever after hobble through life.

Robin Hobb

#7. My brother! Nighteyes greeted me joyously.

Robin Hobb

#8. Once I got away from him, I was smart enough to stay away from him. To hunt that one is as wise as to go hunting a porcupine.

I cannot leave this alone, Nighteyes.

I understand. I am the same about porcupines.

Robin Hobb

#9. And so the Wolf of the West rose from the stone! And so he will rise again if ever the folk of the Six Duchies call to him in need.

Robin Hobb

#10. What persuades men and women to mistake each other from time to time for gods and vermin is ideology.

Terry Eagleton

#11. He gave a final shake of his coat. I go to the hunt!

Robin Hobb

#12. That is what the opposites do, cross the swords invariably and unknowingly.

Aporva Kala

#13. It's important to have as much fun as possible while we're here. It balances out the times when the minefield of life explodes.

Jimmy Buffett

#14. I tell ye wut, my judgment is you're pooty sure to fail, Ez long 'z the head keeps turnin' back for counsel to the the tail.

James Russell Lowell

#15. The four of us couldn't have made a record with the time left over when we were shooting the show. We were on stage from 7.30 in the morning 'til 7 at night. Later on, when there was a break from filming, and we were sick of doing it the old way.

Peter Tork

#16. Do you know how powerful you are?

Puff Daddy

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

Robin Hobb

#18. We are as we are. How can you claim to know what life I was meant to lead, let alone threaten to force me into it? All your quibbling is nonsense. As well forbid your nose to snuff, or your ears to hear. We are as we do.

Robin Hobb

#19. One of my favorite things to do is go running early in the morning when everyone in my house is still sleeping. I throw on my iPod, and it's, like, my time.

Kourtney Kardashian

#20. There's something stalking us. Off to the side of the road, moving through the forest.'

Kettricken smiled.

Robin Hobb

#21. The peculiarity of all death-based religions is that their subject-matter is entirely outside of facts. Men could think and think, talk and argue, advance, deny, assert, and controversy, and write innumerable books, without being hampered at any time by any fact.

Charlotte Perkins Gilman

#22. Shall we make a new rule of life from tonight: always try to be a little kinder than is necessary?

J.M. Barrie

#23. Pardon me for breathing, which I never do any way so I don't know why I bother to say it, oh God, I'm so depressed.

Douglas Adams

#24. 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

#25. The important prediction is not the automobile, but the parking problem; not radio, but the soap opera; not the income tax, but the expense account; not the Bomb, but the nuclear stalemate

Isaac Asimov