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

“...there was no point in sighing after what I could not have. It only distracted me from what I did have.”

Want Remember Desire Sorrow Empty Sigh Seek Fondness Have Miss Reminiscence Fond Distract

Book:Fool's Assassin

Source: Fool's Assassin

“He thought perhaps it was a woman's way, to come out of such a storm of emotion and pain as if she were a ship emerging onto calm seas. She had seemed, not at peace, but emptied of sorrow. As if she had run out of that particular emotion and no other one arose to take its place.”

Way Pain Peace Emotion Sadness Cold Sorrow Depression Empty Tragedy Calm Disappointment Storm Woman Numb Devastation Ship

Book:Blood of Dragons

Source: Blood of Dragons

“For he was the Fool now, all of Lord Chance and Lady Amber and Lord Golden scraped away by sorrow. He was no one's Beloved now.”

Sadness Fool Sorrow

Book:Assassin's Fate

Source: Assassin's Fate

“I lied to hurt you. For letting him be dead while you lived. For being loved by him more than he loved me! He loved you more than he ever loved any of the rest of us!”

Love Sorrow Lies Revelation

Book:Assassin's Fate

Source: Assassin'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

“If he ever wanted vengeance on me for all I did, he has it now. This is the worst thing he could do to me. Now I know how it feels to be left behind. As I left him.”

Fool Sorrow Separation Left Behind

Book:Assassin's Fate

Source: Assassin's Fate

“If one bad thing befell me, I immediately linked it to every bad thing that had happened in the last week or might happen in the coming week. And when I became sad, I was prone to wallow in grief, piling up my woes and sprawling on them like a dragon on a hoard.”

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Book:Fool's Assassin

Source: Fool's Assassin

“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

“There are endings. There are beginnings. Sometimes they coincide, with the ending of one thing marking the beginning of another. But sometimes there is simply a long space after an ending, a time when it seems everything else has ended and nothing else can ever begin.”

Time Loss Space Sorrow Depression Empty Mark Mourning End Mourn Beginning Numb Lead Start Ending Initiate Begin Show Sign Passage Coincide

Book:Fool's Assassin

Source: Fool's Assassin

“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...He had wished me well in finding my own fate to follow, and I never doubted his sincerity. But it had taken me years to accept that his absence in my life was a deliberate finality, an act he had chosen, a thing completed even as some part of my soul still dangled, waiting for his return.”

Soul Pain Desire Left Wish Understanding Hurt Knowledge Fate Fool Return Sorrow Abandon Sincere Farewell Choose Comprehension Seek Wait Leave Follow Realize Separate Fitz Part Ways

Book:Fool's Assassin

Source: Fool's Assassin

About the Author

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

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