History is no more fixed and dead than the future. The past is no further away than the last breath you took. Robin Hobb More Quotes by Robin Hobb More Quotes From Robin Hobb Not all men are destined for greatness," I reminded him. "Are you sure, Fitz? Are you sure? What good is a life lived as if it made no difference at all to the great life of the world? A sadder thing I cannot imagine. Why should not a mother say to herself, if I raise this child aright, if I love and care for her, she shall live a life that brings joy to those about her, and thus I have changed the world? Why should not the farmer that plants a seed say to his neighbor, this seed I plant today will feed someone, and that is how I changed the world today? Robin Hobb greatnessmotherchildren I am the King's Fool. He is the King-In-Wating. Let him wait. Robin Hobb foolkingswaiting Death is not the opposite of life, but the opposite of choice. Robin Hobb choicesoppositesdeath Death is always less painful and easier than life! You speak true. And yet we do not, day to day, choose death. Because ultimately, death is not the opposite of life, but the opposite of choice. Death is what you get when there are no choices left to make. Robin Hobb choicesspeakopposites We are as we are. How can you claim to know what life I was meant to lead, let alone threaten to force me into it? All your quibbling is nonsense. As well forbid your nose to snuff, or your ears to hear. We are as we do. Robin Hobb snuffearsnoses In real life, things don't all end at the nice same place. To keep the story real, there has to be kind of a ragged edge at the end of a novel. Robin Hobb be-kindnicereal the greatest danger is always the one we are ignorant of. Robin Hobb ignorantdanger ...To free humanity of time. For time is the great enslaver of us all. Time that ages us, time that limits us. Think how often you have wished to have more time for something, or wished you could go back a day and do something differently. When humanity is freed of time, old wrongs can be corrected before they are done. Robin Hobb humanityagethinking Most prisons are of our own making. A man makes his own freedom, too. Robin Hobb prisonmen Men of passion and vision are often seen as mad. Robin Hobb madpassionmen Someday is someday, and maybe it will be or maybe it won't. This is a human thing, to worry about things that may or may not come to be. You can't eat meat until you've killed it. Robin Hobb meatworrymay I think that old magic draws much of its strength from that acknowledgment: that we are a part of that world. Robin Hobb magicworldthinking The fight isn't over until you win it, Fitz. That's all you have to remember. No matter what the other man says. Robin Hobb fightingwinningmen I believed that by fixing it down in words, I could force sense from all that had happened, that effect would follow cause, and the reason for each event come clear to me. But then I returned one day, to find all my careful scribing gone to fragments of vellum lying in a trampled yard with wet snow blowing over them. I sat my horse, looking down at them, and knew that, as it always would, the past had broken free of my effort to define and understand it. History is no more fixed and dead than the future. The past is no further away than the last breath you took. Robin Hobb horselyingpast You seek a false comfort when you demand that I define myself for you with words. Words do not contain or define any person. A heart can, if it is willing. Robin Hobb demandcomfortheart Be a man. Discover where you are now, and go on from there, making the best of things. accept your life, and you might survive it. If you hold back from it, insisting this is not your life, not where you are meant to be, life will pass you by. You may not die from such foolishness, but you might as well be dead for all the good your life will do you or anyone else. Robin Hobb goes-onmaymen Well,the fun part of being a writer is that it's like making a wonderful film, with no limit on my budget. I can design the sets, the costume, the lightings, I write the script, and then I get to perform all the roles as I step into each character's skin, zip up, and adopt that point of view. So, to me, they are all compelling and fascinating. Robin Hobb writingfuncharacter 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 their dwellings, and dirty the rivers and subdue the land until it could recall only the will of man. They could not stop themselves from doing what they did. They did not see what they did, and even if they saw, they did not know how to stop. They no longer knew what was enough. Robin Hobb riversmendirty One can only walk so far from one's true self before the bond either snaps, or pulls one back. Robin Hobb true-selfwalksself Silent," the carved wizardwood on his wrist breathed. "Silent as a blinded ship, floating hull-up in the sea. Silent as a scream underwater. Robin Hobb underwaterhullsea
