Quotes by Robin Hobb

About Robin Hobb:

Robin Hobb is the second pen name of American author Margaret Astrid Lindholm Ogden (born March 5, 1952). She is best known for the books taking place in the Realm of the Elderlings, which started in 1995 with the publication of Assassin's Apprentice, the first book in the Farseer trilogy.
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As dye soaks fibres, drawn into them to change their colour forever, so does a memory, stinging or sweet, change the fibre of a man’s character.

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I will always take your part, Bee. Right or wrong. That is why you must always take care to be right, lest you make your father a fool.

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When you want a thing so badly for so long, and then it comes time to face that you cannot have it, sometimes—’ ‘Sometimes you can’t believe it when it comes to you. Sometimes you’re afraid to believe it. I understand your hesitation.

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I loved that man as I have loved no one else. I do not say I loved him more than I love your mother. But that the way I loved him was different. But if you have heard there was anything improper in our bond, there was not. That was not what we were t...

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How often does a man know, without question, that he has done well? I do not think it happens often in anyone's life, and it becomes even rarer once one has a child.

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But if she is alone now, it is because she chose to be alone, not someone decree if for her. Her life is hers to live, not yours to repair.

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I was lonely, and a lonely heart has hungers that can overpower both common sense and dignity.

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That, I think, is the shock of any relationship ending. It is realizing that what is still an ongoing relationship to someone is, for the other person, something finished and done with.

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And what do you believe?” A slow smile spread over his face. “I believe in you. You are my new beginning.

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Stop longing.You poison today’s ease, reaching always for tomorrow.

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I think that old magic draws much of its strength from that acknowledgment: that we are a part of that world.

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Despite my pain, I felt not the regret of an ending, but the foreboding of a beginning.

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The past is no further away than the last breath you took.

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A while later, I lingered in the hinterlands of sleep. Sometimes I think there is more rest in that place between wakefulness and sleep than there is in true sleep. The mind walks in the twilight of both states, and finds the truths that are hidden a...

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Home is people. Not a place. If you go back there after the people are gone, then all you can see is what is not there any more.

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Every small, unselfish action nudges the world into a better path. An accumulation of small acts can change the world.

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Strange, how being left out of a secret always feels like a betrayal of trust.

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But change proves that you are still alive. Change often measures our tolerance for folk different from ourselves. Can we accept their languages, their customs, their garments, and their foods into our own lives? If we can, then we form bonds, bonds ...

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I truly wanted to live a life in which I could make my own choices, independent of the 'duties' of my birth and position. It was only when fate granted that to me that I realized the cost of it. I could set aside my responsibilities to others and liv...

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To be part of a family, or any community, is to have duties and responsibility, to be bound by the rules of that group.

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There are few things so tender as a man's dignity.

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Author Bio

  • NameRobin Hobb
  • DescriptionAmerican fiction writer
  • AliasesMargaret Astrid Lindholm Ogden; Megan Lindholm
  • BornMarch 5, 1952
  • CountryUnited States Of America
  • ProfessionWriter; Novelist
  • WorksAssassin's Apprentice; Royal Assassin; Assassin's Quest