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
night men hands
This, more than anything else, is what I have never understood about your people. You can roll dice, and understand that the whole game may hinge on one turn of a die. You deal out cards, and say that all a man's fortune for the night may turn upon one hand. But a man's whole life, you sniff at, and say, what, this naught of a human, this fisherman, this carpenter, this thief, this cook, why, what can they do in the great wide world? And so you putter and sputter your lives away, like candles burning in a draft.
dream reality perception
How different would our perception of reality be if... we discarded the mundane events that cannot coexist with our dreams?
done
Don’t do what you can’t undo, until you’ve considered what you can’t do once you’ve done it.
fighting men winning
The fight isn't over until you win it, Fitz. That's all you have to remember. No matter what the other man says.
knowing littles taught
Very little worth knowing is taught by fear.
government desire way
That is the trick of good government. To make folk desire to live in such a way that there is no need for its intervention.
determination fighting winning
The fight isn't over until you win.
cutting men wind
All events, no matter how earthshaking or bizarre, are diluted within moments of their occurrence the the continuance of the necessary routines of day-to-day. -Fitz Most prisons are of our own making. A man makes his own freedom, too. -Chade When you cut pieces out of the truth to avoid looking like a fool, you end up sounding like a moron instead. -Burrich We left. Walking uphill and into the wind. That suddenly seemed a metaphor for my whole life. -Fitz
death opposites choices
Death is not the opposite of life, but the opposite of choice.
plans anticipate
One must plan for the future and anticipate the future without fearing the future.
past race interesting
Life is not a race to restore a past situation. Nor does one have to hurry to meet the future. Seeing how things change is what makes life interesting.
knives use staff
One had a knife. But I had a staff and was trained to use it.
too-late apologizing late
It's too late to apologize for I have already forgiven you." -FitzChivalry Farseer
thinking comforting royal
Thinking is not always...comforting. It is always good, but not always comforting. Royal Assassin