Robin Hobb
Robin Hobb
Robin Hobb is a pseudonym of Margaret Astrid Lindholm Ogden, an American writer. She is best known for the books set in the Realm of the Elderlings, which started in 1995 with the publication of Assassin's Apprentice, the first book in the Farseer trilogy...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth5 March 1952
CityBerkeley, CA
CountryUnited States of America
littles welcome reassuring
There is little in life so reassuring as a genuine welcome.
women intelligent talent
A woman of many talents. And intelligent, too. He'd probably have to kill her soon.
passion men mad
Men of passion and vision are often seen as mad.
prayer dying offers
For, "Yes," he had sighed on his dying breath, and all knew that was the ultimate prayer one could offer to life.
past lasts fixed
History is no more fixed and dead than the future. The past is no further away than the last breath you took.
pigs tomorrow get-up
Fitz: Shall we get up tomorrow and go looking for a wild pig? Nighteyes: I didn’t lose any wild pigs, did you?
pain mind-your-own-business not-sure
Fitz: How bad is it? Nighteyes: Mind your own business. Fitz: You ARE my business. Nighteyes: Sharing pain doesn’t loosen it. Fitz: I’m not sure about THAT.
heart balance strange
Do you not see how strange and wonderful that is? That all history balances on an affair of the human heart?
dream giving-up mistake
Love isn't just about feeling sure of the other person, knowing what he would give up for you. It's knowing with certainty what you are willing to surrender for his sake. Make no mistake; each partner gives up something. Individual dreams are surrendered for a shared one.
differences fool world
What good is a life lived as if it made no difference at all to the great life of the world? - Fool
fashion hurt pain
If a man does not die of a wound, then it heals in some fashion, and so it is with loss. From the sharp pain of immediate berevement, both the Prince and I passed into the gray days of numb bewilderment and waiting. So grief has always seemed to me, a time of waiting not for the hurt to pass, but to become accustomed to it.
thinking done only-time
Stop thinking of what you intend to do. Stop thinking of what you have just done. Then, stop thinking that you have stopped thinking of those things. Then you will find the Now, the time that stretches eternal, and is really the only time there is.
worry useless may
Useless to worry until we find outselves blocked. ... If it happens, then we must simply find a way around it. It may slow us down. But we will never get there at all if we stand still and worry.
bleeding flesh scar
I healed. Not completely. A scar is never the same as good flesh, but it stops the bleeding.