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In my opinion, men deny animals have feelings and thoughts for one basic reason: so they won't feel guilty about what they do to them. But — Robin Hobb

I was almost annoyed at her for spoiling my perfectly good sulk. — Robin Hobb

There would always be dishonorable things done to preserve the honor of any power. — Robin Hobb

Do you not see how strange and wonderful that is? That all history balances on an affair of the human heart? — Robin Hobb

Dragons don't bother with introductions. — Robin Hobb

I passed that day in pleasure, which is to say, in the sort of work I wanted to do rather than the work that I thought I ought to be doing. — Robin Hobb

We live in our bodies. An assault on that outside fortress of the mind leaves scars that may not show, but never heal. — Robin Hobb

I was sick of strife, and weary of being wary. — Robin Hobb

Men of passion and vision are often seen as mad. — Robin Hobb

Sometimes luck belongs to children and madmen. — Robin Hobb

When considering a man's motives, remember you must not measure his wheat with your bushel. He may not be using the same standard at all. — Robin Hobb

For, "Yes," he had sighed on his dying breath, and all knew that was the ultimate prayer one could offer to life. — Robin Hobb

It was not that these emotions were unworthy or inappropriate; it was simply that they were wasted upon the man. — Robin Hobb

Writing and reading fiction is, I think, a human effort to make sense of the world. — Robin Hobb

Burned over water. — Robin Hobb

Town too late for Springfest. There'd — Robin Hobb

We who serve the Servants aid them to keep that heart beating steadily. — Robin Hobb

I never confuse the cost of something with its value — Robin Hobb

The wise man takes the shortest path to peace with himself.' Acceptance of what is, that is the shortest path. — Robin Hobb

THE HEIR OF NIGHT by Helen Lowe is a richly told tale of strange magic, dark treachery and conflicting loyalties, set in a well realized world. — Robin Hobb

Oh, my boy. The best mistake Chivalry ever made was you. Go on now. — Robin Hobb

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If I had a dog that was sick as often as you are, I'd put it down, he observed kindly. — Robin Hobb

The art of diplomacy is the luck of knowing more of your rival's secrets than he knows of yours. — Robin Hobb

As dye soaks fibres, drawn into them to change their colour forever, so does a memory, stinging or sweet, change the fibre of a man's character. — Robin Hobb

Seldom can one hate a person if one understand that person. — Robin Hobb

How different would our perception of reality be if ... we discarded the mundane events that cannot coexist with our dreams? — Robin Hobb

Have you ever suddenly realized that there was someone you loved, but presently did not like very much? — Robin Hobb

The truth doesn't need you to recognize it, young man, for it to be so. You need the truth to recognize you. — Robin Hobb

We were one thing. Whole. — Robin Hobb

All men value their own secrets far above those of others. — Robin Hobb

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. — Robin Hobb

other tales, the sailors reach a land of intelligent talking animals who find humans disgusting and rather stupid. — Robin Hobb

One had a knife. But I had a staff and was trained to use it. — Robin Hobb

It is an odd language, yours. You speak of passing time as in the Mountains we speak of passing wind. As if it were a thing to be gotten rid of. — Robin Hobb

I began attempting to write for children under the mistaken assumption that writing for children was easy. — Robin Hobb

The greatest danger is always the one we are ignorant of. — Robin Hobb

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

Death is not the opposite of life, but the opposite of choice. — Robin Hobb

Refusing to think about a thing only brings it more strongly to mind. — Robin Hobb

And a Fool is supposed to be wise? — Robin Hobb

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

"p. 267: Chade to Fitz — Robin Hobb

One man armed with the right word may do what an army of swordsmen cannot. — Robin Hobb

The biggest doubts come in the five minutes after I hit send. — Robin Hobb

Yet I desperately wanted to share the news, as if grief were a heavy burden to be spread out among those who must bear it. — Robin Hobb

shall." I think I finally guessed then what — Robin Hobb

Too late to apologize, I've already forgiven you. — Robin Hobb

You've the saddest song of any man I've ever known. The — Robin Hobb

But if she is alone now, it is because she chose to be alone, not someone decree if for her. Her life is hers to live, not yours to repair. — Robin Hobb

To me there was no catharsis, only an unearthing of rotting corpses of memories, a baring og still suppurating wounds. — Robin Hobb

I am too swift of tongue. But I think that is the best way to talk to a dragon. — Robin Hobb

Few things have such sharp edges as the careless words of a boy. — Robin Hobb

The ones who chose to live free of inconvenience by tolerating the agony and degradation of others? — Robin Hobb

I wasn't being fair to expect those things of him. But life wasn't fair. Life does not wait for any of us to grow up. — Robin Hobb

Many great ideas are not unique. They only become unique when the men who have the wherewithal actually to implement them come together. — Robin Hobb

As well to clutch at the moon's reflection in a still midnight pond as to seek a grip on that bright mind. — Robin Hobb

All cats talk however they want. To whomever they want. But only a rude human speaks out of turn. Be quiet. — Robin Hobb

You can't die from seasickness, but you wish you could. — Robin Hobb

Not every problem in the world belongs to you. — Robin Hobb

Sharpening your knife is never a waste of time. — Robin Hobb

It's that which is between the gardener and his bit of soil that makes a garden. — Robin Hobb

I bite my tongue and scowl my love, lest passion make me slave. — Robin Hobb

When you cut pieces out of the truth to avoid looking like a fool you end up looking like a moron instead. — Robin Hobb

When you cut pieces from the truth to avoid sounding like a fool, you end up sounding like a moron instead. — Robin Hobb

We are the sum of all we have done added to the sum of all that has been done to us. — Robin Hobb

We aren't fated to survive, then at least let us fight it to the end. Let it be fate that extinguishes us, not our own lack of heart. — Robin Hobb

Pain is the coin they use now in all their transactions. Nothing else teaches them, nothing else will satisfy them. — Robin Hobb

For six nights, this nightmare has howled through my sleep, a dire warning. — Robin Hobb

Be now what you must be to succeed at the end of your journey, and when the end comes, you will find it is just another beginning.' Althea — Robin Hobb

Time is an unkind teacher, delivering lessons that we learn far too late for them to be useful. — Robin Hobb

And what do you believe?"
A slow smile spread over his face. "I believe in you. You are my new beginning. — Robin Hobb

That most ancient of magics, the binding of a man by the use of his name, gripped him. — Robin Hobb

Fitz fixes fyces fitz.Fatsafices. — Robin Hobb

When you spring to an idea, and decide it is truth, without evidence, you blind yourself to other possibilities. — Robin Hobb

Nothing takes the heart out of a man more than the expectation of failure. — Robin Hobb

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. — Robin Hobb

This is our last hunt, old wolf. And as we have always done, we go to it together. — Robin Hobb

You imagine the worst, and when you do, your mind stops at the problem and does not consider the solution. — Robin Hobb

To bond to any animal was to promise oneself that future pain — Robin Hobb

Everything she sang was true. I will leave it to you as to whether the truth can exist with details omitted, or if those lacks make a lie of it. — Robin Hobb

The betrayal of a friend differs from the treachery of a lover only in the degree of pain, not the kind. — Robin Hobb

You can be the dead fish. I'll be the old stick — Robin Hobb

She held his hand and did not look down nor back. — Robin Hobb

You'll do well, if you don't mire in self-pity. Self-pity only gets you more of the same. Don't waste time on it. — Robin Hobb

Very little worth knowing is taught by fear. — Robin Hobb

No, Margaret Atwood writes literature, whereas I write fiction. I'm from the American Midwest, so literature is beyond my abilities. — Stella Atrium

A secret is only yours so long as you don't share it. Tell it to one person, and it's a secret no more. — Robin Hobb

To be part of a family, or any community, is to have duties and responsibility, to be bound by the rules of that group. — Robin Hobb

Fishing and ear scratching the two reasons men were given hands. — Robin Hobb

Oh, and you accuse me of flattery! Here I waddle about like a fat old duck and you try to tell me I'm lovely. — Robin Hobb

Some people say 'I want to be a writer,' and some people say, 'I want to write.' — Robin Hobb

Passed through fire and plunged through salt water and offered to the winds of the air; thus were names sealed to these chosen children. — Robin Hobb

The ship's knowledge extended to navigation, to the handling of weather and awareness of necessary maintenance. — Robin Hobb

A fierce resolve that we would not lose what we had now to what we could not have tomorrow. — Robin Hobb

To every creature is given both a place and a time, and when that time is over, we have to let them go. — Robin Hobb

Anticipating pain was like enduring it twice. Why not anticipate pleasure instead? — Robin Hobb

I should live each day as if it were significant, as if everyday the fate of the world depended on my action. — Robin Hobb

Dawn," Thymara scoffed. "I think the dragons meant, "After we wake up and when we feel like it. — Robin Hobb

Some speak of the savagery of beasts. I will ever prefer that to the thoughtless contempt some men have toward animals. — Robin Hobb

Young as I was, I still wondered what kind of man this was who, with one leg bandaged, could quell a room full of rough men with a look or a word. — Robin Hobb