Quotes About Chade

#1. Sometimes," he observed obliquely, "you have to trust people to understand you are not perfect.""

"p. 267: Chade to Fitz

Robin Hobb

#2. Boy," Chade remarked quietly. "Never pretend we are anything but what we are. Assassins. Not merciful agents of a wise king. Political assassins dealing death for the furtherance of our monarchy. That is what we are.

Robin Hobb

#3. Does anything feel worse than being angry with people you love?"
"P. 307: Fitz to Chade

Robin Hobb

#4. 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

#5. Young, Chade suggested. Young and full of righteous fury. Hurt and heartbroken, I suggested. So tired of being thwarted. Tired of being bound by rules that no one else had to follow.

Robin Hobb

#6. 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

#7. If I can turn the most powerful part of the world into a land of wisdom and compassion, it's going to change the rest of the world.

Chade-Meng Tan

#8. After the first week, I worried that I would forget moments, and so I drew them. Everything I could think of, every angle. I dreamed about you. And I tried to capture you so I wouldn't lose a single second of a single moment, because what if I never got to have them again?

Damon Suede

#9. Success and failure are emotional and physiological experiences. We need to deal with them in a way that is present and calm.

Chade-Meng Tan

#10. Top managers love people and they want to be loved - it turns out being loved is good for your career, especially if you are the boss.

Chade-Meng Tan

#11. If you had to pick between being moral and successful, obviously I'd choose to be moral. However if you can choose both, will you choose both? I'd say definitely.

Chade-Meng Tan

#12. The geologist, six years ago now, hadn't defied anything to climb the hill. He'd had his own powerful magic
the ordinary magic that extraordinarily interested people always have.

Elizabeth Knox

#13. Compassion is so pure, I don't think there is any way to taint it.

Chade-Meng Tan

#14. There is always power in holding a secret.

Robin Hobb

#15. I was always very different from the other kids. I have an I.Q. of 156. I didn't play sports. I thought big. I thought I could achieve great things. I don't want to sound megalomaniac, but my whole life is about doing something for the world, from as far back as I can remember.

Chade-Meng Tan

#16. 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

#17. Grief and love are sisters, woven together from the beginning. Their kinship reminds us that there is no love that does not contain loss and no loss that is not a reminder of the love we carry for what we once held close.

Francis Weller

#18. What we think, do, and pay attention to changes the structure and functions of our brains!

Chade-Meng Tan

#19. If the mind is calm, your spontaneity and honest thoughts appear. You become more spontaneous.

Chade-Meng Tan

#20. Deified and demonized. Prized and pummeled. Loved and loathed. Mostly, she's still standing.

Mimi Wolverton

#21. Think of what is and don't let what might have been distract you.

Robin Hobb

#22. To be happy, pursue your purpose with love and honesty.

Debasish Mridha