At what point is a person old enough to say, 'I own my body, and I get to do what I want with it'? Robin Hobb More Quotes by Robin Hobb More Quotes From Robin Hobb How different would our perception of reality be if... we discarded the mundane events that cannot coexist with our dreams? Robin Hobb perceptiondreamreality Sometimes it seems unfair that events so old can reach forward through the years, sinking claws into one's life and twisting all that follows it. Yet perhaps that is the ultimate justice: we are the sum of all we have done added to the sum of all that has been done to us. There is no escaping that, not for any of us. Robin Hobb escapingjusticeyears Your future. It awaits only you, to live it and to write it. - Shaman's Crossing by Robin Hobb Robin Hobb your-futurewritingrobins What a man can take with a sword, a woman can give by her flesh alone. Life. Robin Hobb fleshgivingmen if love doesnt come first and linger after, if love cant wait and endure disappointment and seperation, then its not love. Robin Hobb disappointmentwaitingfirsts A woman of many talents. And intelligent, too. He'd probably have to kill her soon. Robin Hobb womentalentintelligent 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. Robin Hobb bednightpromise 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. Robin Hobb events-in-lifeselfchallenges Start writing sooner. Don't wait for permission. Don't hesitate. Robin Hobb permissionwaitingwriting Writers really do that. We weep over our characters. We are saddened sometimes for days when we say goodbye to a world or a character. They do become our best friends. I've probably spent more time with them over the past 22, 24 years than I have spent with most of the real members of my family. Robin Hobb realgoodbyecharacter One must plan for the future and anticipate the future without fearing the future. Robin Hobb anticipateplans 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 that make wars less likely. If we cannot, if we believe that we must do things as we have always done them, then we must either fight to remain as we are, or die Robin Hobb fightingwarbelieve Besides, if there were no dragons of flesh and blood and fire, whence would come the idea for these stone carvings? Robin Hobb dragonsfireblood 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. Robin Hobb giving-updreammistake For, "Yes," he had sighed on his dying breath, and all knew that was the ultimate prayer one could offer to life. Robin Hobb offersdyingprayer Remember with your heart. Go back, go back and go back. The skies of this world were always meant to have dragons. When they are not here, humans miss them. Some never think of them, of course. But some children, from the time they are small, they look up at the blue summer sky and watch for something that never comes. Because they know. Something that was supposed to be there faded and vanished. Something that we must bring back, you and I. Robin Hobb summerheartchildren Don’t do what you can’t undo, until you’ve considered what you can’t do once you’ve done it. Robin Hobb done I never confuse the cost of something with its value Robin Hobb valuescost History is no more fixed and dead than the future. The past is no further away than the last breath you took. Robin Hobb fixedlastspast The fight isn't over until you win. Robin Hobb fightingdeterminationwinning
