Quotes About Hobb

#1. The apples stewed with prunes are excellent, except for the prunes, I won't eat prunes myself. Well, there was one time when Hobb chopped them up with chesnuts and carrots and hid them in a hen. Never trust a cook, my lord. They'll prune you when you least expect it.

George R R Martin

#2. Fun, fun, fun, got you, got you, and got you again! Here, you're dead, here, I broke your forepaw, here, your blood runs out! Got you, got you, got you!

Robin Hobb

#3. I know some people see it as this success when the book is finally made into a movie - that marks its success. I don't see it that way.

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#4. This was misery that could not yield, for he sorrowed for a time he could not return to, and a self he would never again be.

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#5. But shall we be happy, to say that we live in the dusk rather than in the full night? Shall we rejoice that we shall only suffer, while your offspring will be the ones to know the torments of the damned? Shall this be why we do not act?

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#6. There is nothing dishonorable about abandoning pain. Sometimes peace is most quickly found when a man simply stops avoiding it." He shifted slightly in the dark. "And you never again lay awake all night, staring at darkness and thinking of them.

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#7. One way to disperse fear and create decision was to consider the worst possible outcome of one's actions.

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#8. Never do what you can't undo until you've considered well what you can't do once you've done it.

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#9. The art of diplomacy is the luck of knowing more of your rival's secrets than he knows of yours.

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#10. 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.

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#11. And to die with the Warrior's Prayer on his lips. For, 'Yes', he had sighed on his dying breath, and all knew that was the ultimate prayer one could offer to life. Acceptance.

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#12. This is our last hunt, old wolf. And as we have always done, we go to it together.

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#13. I was dressed up as a witch for Halloween, and wanted to write a story about my black cat before I went out trick-or-treating. I think it went out with the trash the next day.

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#14. We all perish in our last attempt to live.

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#15. Then I'd be dead," I pointed out. "Among other things. Fool, there is no sense in trying to play
that game with the past. Here is where we are today, and we can only make our moves from here.

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#16. I found myself speaking softly as if I were telling an old tale to a young child. And giving it a happy ending, when all know that tales never end, and the happy ending is but a moment to catch one's breath before the next disaster.

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#17. Never have I heard anything so unnerving as a hardened warrior praying to a god known for his merciless heart.

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#18. How much do you understand?' I demanded of her one afternoon. She cocked her head at me, met my gaze and demanded, 'How much do YOU understand?

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#19. baffled at how he had released her.

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#20. She had called herself a whore. That was a man's word, a shame-word flung at a woman. But she did not seem ashamed. She wielded the word like a sword, slicing away all his preconceptions of who she was. She had earned her living by her sex, and she did not seem to regret it.

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#21. It is the nature of human that we tend to pass our pain along. As if we could get rid of it by inflicting an equal hurt on someone else.

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#22. I was sick of strife, and weary of being wary.

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#23. You know your duty and you are doing it. It isn't your fault if Althea can't appreciate that.

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#24. Not intending to be funny: I sit at the keyboard, put my fingers on the keys and go. To me, it's the real secret of writing. Put yourself in front of the screen or the blank sheet of paper and get to work.

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#25. The ones who chose to live free of inconvenience by tolerating the agony and degradation of others?

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#26. Axes bit wood into pieces and hammers nailed it back together. Humans could never accept the world as it was and live in it. They were always breaking it and living amongst the shattered pieces.

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#27. Diplomacy may very well be the art of manipulating secrets. What would any negotiation come to, were not there secrets to either share or withhold?

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#28. If I gave Bee to Riddle and Nettle, I could undertake the Fool's vengeance. That traitorous thought made me want to vomit.

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#29. I'll be glad to get out on the water again, and gladder still to see Divvytown. I knew it was my home port that first time I saw it.'
'The pirate town? Sa save us all. Does someone wait for you, dearie?' Ophelia asked.
Jek laughed aloud. 'They all wait for me. They just don't know it yet.

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#30. Sa help us all, but I plan to give her free rein and let her be as unpleasant and bitchy as only she knows how.

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#31. No matter what name they call us by, you will always be mine. And I am yours, Bee. And I will always do everything in my power to protect you. Do you understand that? ... I will always need you. I will always want you to be part of my life. Do you understand that?

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#32. It's not the sort of thing one asks of a friend. He hasn't offered, and I will not ask it. I will not tear him that way. I am trying to let go. I don't know how.

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#33. Cats themselves may be very chatty, but they seem to resent it in anyone else. Cats like listeners.

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#34. When one has been disappointed for so long, hope becomes the enemy. One cannot be dashed to the earth unless one is lifted first, and I learned to avoid hope.

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#35. I don't want to have these burdens. But I can't bear to turn them over to anyone else, either. Because, despite all the work, I like being in control of my own life.

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#36. Dragons. A sky full of dragons.

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#37. I felt a familiar squeezing in what I thought must be my heart. I had heard of being "heartbroken" or "heavy-hearted" but I had never known it was an actual sensation one felt when the whole world abandons you.

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#38. Maulkin abruptly heaved himself out of his wallow with a wild thrash that left the atmosphere hanging thick with particles. Shreds of his shed skin floated with the sand and muck like the dangling remnants of dreams when one awakes.

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#39. He is very concerned with his dignity, and I think that prevents him from having an interesting life. If I were a boy, and permitted to have an interesting life, I would have no dignity at all.

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#40. Well. Who wouldn't break? I broke. You broke.'

'And we both emerged stronger.'

'We both emerged', I modified his words.

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#41. In politics, appearance matters more than truth.

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#42. Strangers had small interest in hurting you. That was always done best by your own family and friends.

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#43. I feared my own kind more than anything the natural world could ever threaten me with.

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#44. Sometimes it seemed to me a cruelty that so much was unresolved between us; at other times, a blessing that a hope of reunion lingered.

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#45. A small pebble can turn a wheel out of its path, he told me, but warned me that it was seldom a pleasant experience for the pebble.

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

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#47. Maybe you have to keep your pain and loss to know that you can survive whatever life deals you. Perhaps without putting your pain in its place in your life, you became something of a coward.

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#48. Why had Althea's crazed words affected Etta like this? Then the answer came to him: she was pregnant. Women always behaved strangely when they were pregnant.

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#49. I'm sorry."
He looked at me. "Some day, Fitzchivalry," he warned me, "those words will not be enough. Sometimes it is easier to pull a knife out of a man than to ask him to forget words you have uttered. Even words uttered in anger.

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#50. 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.

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#51. I'll be teaching you the nasty, furtive, polite ways to kill people

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#52. He smiled, and reminded me that no man could make time, but only use that which he was given wisely.

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#53. In your conceit and aggression, you wage wars and slay one another over the lines you have imagined on the world's face.

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#54. Boredom is vastly underrated. Boredom means that nothing is trying to kill you every day.

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#55. The greatest danger is always the one we are ignorant of.

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#56. You have a wild young heart. Right now, it is like a caged bird that batters itself against the bars. To struggle harder will only hurt you more. Wait, be patient. Your time will come to fly. And when it does, you must be strong, not bloodied and weary.

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#57. There is no such thing as an extraordinary coincidence. There is only destiny.

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#58. As if he hadn't always known he was loved the best. That he was the Beloved.

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#59. Sometimes it only makes one more lonely to know that somewhere else, one's friends and family are well.

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#60. Despite my pain, I felt not the regret of an ending, but the foreboding of a beginning.

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#61. I looked at her, wanting her with all the lust of my months alone and untouched. But I knew also that for that deeper hunger for companionship and understanding, she offered me no more solace than any man might find in his own hand.

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#62. Dragons don't bother with introductions.

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#63. The care he always took with his own appearance and behavior. "Just because you cannot see a woman does not mean she does not see you." Oh, Burrich. The extra time he still took, grooming a horse that she seldom rode anymore.

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#64. I could not help but see the hand of the balancer in all of this. Could hatred and determination be a counterweight to organization and experience? I suddenly understood something about the old god of death and why he was also the god of balances.

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#65. When you borrow trouble against what might be, you neglect the moment you have now to enjoy. The man who worries about what will next be happening to him loses this moment in dread of the next, and poisons the next with pre-judgment.

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#66. There are always choices. But sometimes there are no good ones.

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#67. You can be the dead fish. I'll be the old stick

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#68. 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.

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#69. You're not who he expected you to be; that doesn't mean you aren't somebody. Nor are you perfect. Stop using every mistake you make as an excuse to fail completely.

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#70. I was as foolish as I had ever been, no, even stupider, for the gullibility of a boy is fatuousness in a man.

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#71. You have been with me, as close as the tips of my fingers, even when we were years and seas apart. Your being was like the hum of a plucked string at the edge of my hearing, or a scent carried on a breeze. Did not you feel it so?

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#72. Refuse the anxiety. When you borrow trouble against what might be, you neglect the moment you have now to enjoy. The man who worries about what will next be happening to him loses this moment in dread of the next, and poisons the next with pre-judgement.' Berandol's

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#73. No man can return to being a boy. But there are interludes in a man's life when, for a time, he can recapture the feeling that the world is a forgiving place and that he is immortal.

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#74. Sometimes luck belongs to children and madmen.

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#75. 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.

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#76. And while you're 'hearing' all this vital gossip, I might point out to you that no wise man tells all he knows. And that he who carries tales has little else in his head. Do you understand me, Brant?

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#77. For six nights, this nightmare has howled through my sleep, a dire warning.

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#78. Diplomacy is the velvet glove that cloaks the fist of power.

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#79. It is my way, to speak directly. I do not mean to give offense by it. It has always seemed to me that honest words leave the least room for misunderstanding.

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#80. Somewhere in the back of my mind, Nighteyes was frantic. 'Poisoned. That water is poisoned.' I couldn't frame a thought to reassure him.

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#81. Few things have such sharp edges as the careless words of a boy.

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#82. The fight isn't over until you win.

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#83. That isn't how I see it, Amber. That isn't how I see it at all. It's just my life, and now that I have finally discovered what I must have to be happy, I'm willing to lay down my life for it. That's all.'
She smiled. 'That is all. You are right. And that is all that All ever is.

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#84. You've the saddest song of any man I've ever known. The

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#85. 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

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

"p. 267: Chade to Fitz

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#87. Cats do not enjoy being reminded of debts.
Cats don not incur in debts.

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#88. She stared at him suspiciously. 'You drank all

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#89. Sorrow and loss never die. We can put them away in a chest and lock it tight, but whenever it is opened, even a crack, the aroma of lost sweetness will rise to fill our lungs to heaviness.

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#90. Too many folk, women and men, love the person they wish to be, as if by loving that person, or being loved by that person, they could attain the importance they long for.

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#91. You know what I feel for you. You have known it for years. Let us not, you and I, alone here, pretend that you don't. You know I love you. I always have. I always will

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#92. But if she let go of her anger, all that would remain was grief and pain. Anger was easier. Anger could be focused outward. Grief corroded from within.

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#93. Not every problem in the world belongs to you.

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#94. When you cut pieces out of the truth to avoid looking like a fool you end up looking like a moron instead.

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#95. She is, Althea thought uneasily, what I pretend to be: a woman who does not let her sex deter her from living as she pleases.

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#96. I have since come to know that many men always see another's good fortune as a slight to themsleves.

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#97. If all of her was not enough for him, then let him have none of her and seek what he needed elsewhere.

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#98. It doesn't matter who a man's father is. Your parents made a child, but it's up to you to make the man you'll be.

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#99. One devoted to his cat would not leave it long alone. A cat's loyalty is not a thing to be taken for granted, but courted day by day.

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#100. That, I think, is the shock of any relationship ending. It is realizing that what is still an ongoing relationship to someone is, for the other person, something finished and done with.

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