The challenge is always to find the good place to end the book. The rule I follow with myself is that every book should end where the next book would logically begin. I know that some readers wish that literally all of the threads would be neatly tied off and snipped, but life just doesn't work that way.

Robin Hobb

Categorized in : Myself Good Life Work

Boredom is vastly underrated. Boredom means that nothing is tryin... by Robin Hobb

Boredom is vastly underrated. Boredom means that nothing is trying to kill you every day.

boredom trying mean

Leave the pain behind and let your life be your own again. There is a place where all time is now, and the choices are simple and always your own. Wolves have no kings

pain simple kings

Anticipating pain was like enduring it twice. Why not anticipate... by Robin Hobb

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

why-not anticipation pain

In that last dance of chances I shall partner you no more. I shall watch another turn you As you move across the floor. In that last dance of chances When I bid your life goodbye I will hope she treats you kindly. I will hope you learn to fly. In that last dance of chances When I know you'll not be mine I will let you go with longing And the hope that you'll be fine. In that last dance of chances We shall know each other's minds. We shall part with our regrets When the tie no longer binds.

regret goodbye moving

Tomorrow owes you the sum of your yesterdays. No more than that.... by Robin Hobb

Tomorrow owes you the sum of your yesterdays. No more than that. And no less.

tomorrow yesterday

When we come back to fantasy, I think we're actually coming back to the real bedrock of storytelling. Our national or international genre really is fantasy, if you think about the worldwide myths and legends and stories that we all know, whether we're talking about Little Red Riding Hood or the Arabian Nights or Noah's Ark or Hercules. These are stories that cross many cultures in much the same way that dragons cross many cultures.

real night thinking

Stop longing.You poison today’s ease, reaching always for tomorro... by Robin Hobb

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

poison ease today

I told you I set no limits on my love for you. I don't. Yet I have never expected you to offer me your body. It was the whole of your heart, all for myself, that I sought. Even though I've never had a right to it. For you gave it away ere ever you saw me.

my-love-for-you body heart

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 the times when the right path is hard, but glorious at the end. I'm talking about enduring the boredom, the messiness, and the inconvenience of doing what is right. ~Amber

talking mean thinking

Diplomacy is the velvet glove that cloaks the fist of power. by Robin Hobb

Diplomacy is the velvet glove that cloaks the fist of power.

gloves velvet fists

Cats talk to whomever they please. by Robin Hobb

Cats talk to whomever they please.

please cat

There is little in life so reassuring as a genuine welcome. by Robin Hobb

There is little in life so reassuring as a genuine welcome.

reassuring welcome littles

Stop thinking of what you intend to do. Stop thinking of what you have just done. Then, stop thinking that you have stopped thinking of those things. Then you will find the Now, the time that stretches eternal, and is really the only time there is.

eternal done thinking

Perhaps having the courage to find a better path is having the co... by Robin Hobb

Perhaps having the courage to find a better path is having the courage to risk making new mistakes.

risk path mistake

Look forward, not back. Correct your course and go on. You cannot... by Robin Hobb

Look forward, not back. Correct your course and go on. You cannot undo yesterday's journey.

journey goes-on yesterday

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

balance strange heart

Silence can ask all the questions, where the tongue is prone to a... by Robin Hobb

Silence can ask all the questions, where the tongue is prone to ask only the wrong one.

tongue asks silence

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

pieces cutting truth

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.

family home inspirational

The man who must brag for himself knows that no one else will by Robin Hobb

The man who must brag for himself knows that no one else will

human-nature self men