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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His absence seemed a solid thing, a burden I must carry in addition to my grief... Yet I knew I would continue to live. Sometimes that knowledge seemed the worst part of my loss.

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Perhaps once one realised how deeply one could bond with a creature as foreign as a dragon, all forms of human love seemed more acceptable.

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One had a knife. But I had a staff and was trained to use it.

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Men cannot grieve as dogs do. But they grieve for many years.

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Had they been dogs they would have sniffed me over and then drawn back. But humans have no such inbred courtesies.

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Chade, I know the Fool is strange. But I like it when he comes to talk to me. He speaks in riddles, and he insults me, and makes fun of me, and gives himself leave to tell me things he thinks I should do, like wash my hair, or not wear yellow. But (....

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Because your heart will be hammered against him, and your strength will be tempered in his fire.

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But in my heart, when I said “my king,” I meant Verity.

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When you cut pieces out of the truth to avoid looking like a fool you end up looking like a moron instead.

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One does not have to be Witted to know the companionship of a beast, and to know that the friendship of an animal is every bit as rich and complicated as that of a man or woman.

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Besides, if there were no dragons of flesh and blood and fire, whence would come the idea for these stone carvings?

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I feared my own kind more than anything the natural world could ever threaten me with.

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There is a dead spot in the night, that coldest, blackest time when the world has forgotten evening and dawn is not yet a promise. A time when it is far too early to arise, but so late that going to bed makes small sense.

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I think I made a better boy than I do a man, I admitted ruefully to the wolf. Why not wait until you've been at it a bit longer and then decide? he suggested.

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As I apologized to her a flicker of panic raced through me and then faded away. There wasn't enough life left in me to panic. I'd made a mistake and I was dying. Apparently not even a Speck afterlife was available to me. I'd simply stop being. Appare...

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Anticipating pain was like enduring it twice. Why not anticipate pleasure instead?

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A terrible premonition washed over me. This was how the whole world would end.... They would devour the forest and excrete piles of buildings made of stone wrenched from the earth or from dead trees. They would hammer paths of bare stone between thei...

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That is the challenge Companion. To take what has happened to you and learn from it. Nothing is quite so destructive as pity, especially self-pity. No event in life is so terrible that one cannot rise above it.

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Do you not see how strange and wonderful that is? That all history balances on an affair of the human heart?

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Everyone thinks that courage is about facing death without flinching. But almost anyone can do that. Almost anyone can hold their breath and not scream for as long as it takes to die. True courage is about facing life without flinching. I don't mean ...

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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