Thinking is not always...comforting. It is always good, but not always comforting. Royal Assassin Robin Hobb More Quotes by Robin Hobb More Quotes From Robin Hobb 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 underwater hull sea If a man does not die of a wound, then it heals in some fashion, and so it is with loss. From the sharp pain of immediate berevement, both the Prince and I passed into the gray days of numb bewilderment and waiting. So grief has always seemed to me, a time of waiting not for the hurt to pass, but to become accustomed to it. Robin Hobb fashion pain hurt For the weakest has but to try his strength to find it, and then he shall be strong. Robin Hobb strong trying When you are writing, you have to love all your characters. If you're writing something from a minor character's point of view, you really need to stop and say the purpose of this character isn't to be somebody's sidekick or to come in and put the horse in the stable. The purpose of this character is you're getting a little window into that character's life and that character's day. You have to write them as if they're not a minor character, because they do have their own things going on. Robin Hobb horse writing character To be honest, I don't think of any of my characters as minor characters - they're all the main characters in a story that I don't necessarily get to tell. Robin Hobb honest character thinking Every writer knows a lot more about their characters and story than actually makes it onto the page. Robin Hobb character learning is never wrong. Even learning how to kill isn't wrong. Or right. It's just a thing to learn, a thing I can teach you. That's all. Robin Hobb wrong-or-right teach i-can One had a knife. But I had a staff and was trained to use it. Robin Hobb staff knives use THE HEIR OF NIGHT by Helen Lowe is a richly told tale of strange magic, dark treachery and conflicting loyalties, set in a well realized world. Robin Hobb loyalty dark night When both my editors say 'This is really bad, you need to change this,' I ignore that at my peril. Robin Hobb peril editors needs This, more than anything else, is what I have never understood about your people. You can roll dice, and understand that the whole game may hinge on one turn of a die. You deal out cards, and say that all a man's fortune for the night may turn upon one hand. But a man's whole life, you sniff at, and say, what, this naught of a human, this fisherman, this carpenter, this thief, this cook, why, what can they do in the great wide world? And so you putter and sputter your lives away, like candles burning in a draft. Robin Hobb men night hands No man is so dangerous as the man who cannot decide what he fears. Robin Hobb dangerous men Fitz: How bad is it? Nighteyes: Mind your own business. Fitz: You ARE my business. Nighteyes: Sharing pain doesn’t loosen it. Fitz: I’m not sure about THAT. Robin Hobb mind-your-own-business not-sure pain I healed. Not completely. A scar is never the same as good flesh, but it stops the bleeding. Robin Hobb scar bleeding flesh Useless to worry until we find outselves blocked. ... If it happens, then we must simply find a way around it. It may slow us down. But we will never get there at all if we stand still and worry. Robin Hobb useless worry may Nothing takes the heart out of a man more than the expectation of failure. Robin Hobb expectations heart men I wonder if I can write this history, or if on every page there will be some sneaking show of a bitterness I thought long dead. I think myself cured of all spite, but when I touch pen to paper, the hurt of a boy bleeds out with the sea-spawned ink, until I suspect each carefully formed black letter scabs over some ancient scarlet wound. Robin Hobb hurt writing boys What good is a life lived as if it made no difference at all to the great life of the world? - Fool Robin Hobb fool differences world Fitz: Shall we get up tomorrow and go looking for a wild pig? Nighteyes: I didn’t lose any wild pigs, did you? Robin Hobb get-up tomorrow pigs If I had a dog that was sick as often as you are, I'd put it down," he observed kindly. Robin Hobb sick ifs dog
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