Robin Hobb Quotes

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Robin Hobb is an American novelist renowned for her fantasy novels. Her works are known for their complex characters and in-depth historical backgrounds, which have won her a dedicated following.

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Famous Robin Hobb Quotes

“The Fool shook his head, smiling. 'No. Dragons are no better than humans. They are little different at all from men. They will hold up a mirror to humanity's selfishness. They will remind you that all your talk of owning this and claiming that is no more than the snarling of a chained dog or a sparrow's challenge song. The reality of those claims lasts but for the instant of its sounding. Name it as you will, claim it as you will, the world does not belong to men. Men belong to the world. You will not own the earth that eventually your body will become, nor will it recall the name it once answered to.”

Death Humanity Balance Selfishness

Book:Fool's Fate

Source: Fool's Fate

“I lived my grief; I slept mourning and ate sorrow and drank tears. I ignored all else.”

Life Death Loss Forget Grief Cry Tears Sorrow Depression Empty Mourning Hollow Mourn Numb Ignore Pass By

Book:Fool's Assassin

Source: Fool's Assassin

“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.”

Death Acceptance

Book:Fool's Fate

Source: Fool's Fate

“I was dying. And I had never been enough for anything.”

Death Regret

Book:Assassin's Fate

Source: Assassin's Fate

“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.”

Life Pain Death Knowledge Forever Denial Unimaginable Result Wound Effect After Itch Mutilated

Book:Golden Fool

Source: Golden Fool

“His face was so ravaged, it was like looking at death itself. Except for the smooth, silvered part of it. By creeping degrees, his human hand lifted. He turned it over, showing a bloody palm. His cracked lips moved. Beloved. He could not say the word, but I knew it. So did his Fool.”

Love Whole Together Death Fool Sorrow Connection Fitz Nighteyes

Book:Assassin's Fate

Source: Assassin's Fate

“Dying is boring, Nighteyes observed.”

Death Nighteyes Robin Hobb

Book:Assassin's Fate

Source: Assassin's Fate

“Make up your mind. Is Death a friend? Then go joyfully to hunt with it, as I did. If it's an enemy, then fight it. But don't sag here like a wounded cow waiting for predators to finish it off. You are not prey, nor I! If we must die, let us die as wolves!”

Death Wolves Nighteyes

Book:Assassin's Fate

Source: Assassin's Fate

“Death is not the opposite of life, but the opposite of choice.”

Death Choices Opposites Norwegian Wood Death Anniversary

Book:Fool's Errand: The Tawny Man Trilogy

Source: Fool's Errand: The Tawny Man Trilogy

About the Author

Born: March 5, 1952
Known for: Novelist
Quotes: 276

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