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

“Those were some astounding lies, cub. And the very last one the most inspired of all. You have your father's talent for it.”

Love Fool Lies Bee Fitz Nighteyes Cub

Book:Assassin's Fate

Source: Assassin's Fate

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

Nighteyes Fitzchivalry Farseer

Book:Fool's Errand

Source: Fool's Errand

“There's something stalking us. Off to the side of the road, moving through the forest.' Kettricken smiled.”

Fool Wolf Ending Hunt Fitz Nighteyes Kettricken

Book:Assassin's Fate

Source: Assassin's Fate

“We are pack!”

Wolf Pack Nighteyes Fitzchivalry Farseer

Book:Royal Assassin

Source: Royal Assassin

“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.”

Song Fool Hunt Fitz Nighteyes Hap Wolf Of The West

Book:Assassin's Fate

Source: Assassin's Fate

“He gave a final shake of his coat. 'I go to the hunt!”

Fool Fitz Nighteyes The Hunt

Book:Assassin's Fate

Source: Assassin's Fate

“Little Brother, do not treat me as if I am already dead, or dying. If you see me that way, then I would rather truly be dead. You steal the now of my life away, when you constantly fear that tomorrow will bring my death. Your fears clutch cold at me and snatch all my pleasure in the day's warmth from me.”

Nighteyes

Book:Fool's Errand

Source: Fool's Errand

“We are whole”

Fitz Nighteyes

Book:Fool's Errand

Source: Fool's Errand

“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

“You should go with him, Nighteyes. You should go with Bee. If we end here, then I meet the end with you. As you ended with me. How is the hunting where you are? It will be better with you. I'm coming to you, my brother.”

Fitz Nighteyes

Book:Assassin's Fate

Source: Assassin's Fate

“You are ill? No. Just Stupid. Ah. Nothing new there. Well, you haven't died from that so far.”

Nighteyes

Book:Fool's Errand

Source: Fool's Errand

“Your mother was a good mate for Fitz. She gave him what he needed. But this is the woman I would have chosen for us.”

Nighteyes

Book:Assassin's Fate

Source: Assassin's Fate

“Why do you chop your life into bits and give the bits names? Hours, days. It is like a rabbit. If I kill a rabit, I eat a rabbit. When you have a rabbit, you chop it up and call it bones and meat and fur and guts. And so you never have enough.”

Nighteyes

Book:Assassin's Quest

Source: Assassin's Quest

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

Drunk Fitz Nighteyes

Book:Royal Assassin

Source: Royal Assassin

About the Author

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

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