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 Not being able to think of a reply is not the same thing as accepting another's words. Robin Hobb able accepting thinking But a living is not a life. Robin Hobb King Shrewd is expecting me, rather he isn't expecting me, and that is precisely why I must go to him now. Robin Hobb expecting kings That is the trick of good government. To make folk desire to live in such a way that there is no need for its intervention. Robin Hobb government desire needs Very little worth knowing is taught by fear. Robin Hobb taught knowing littles Ah, Catylast, can it be that you do not see all the changes you have made? Some by your resignation and acceptance of circumstance, some by your wild struggles. You say that you hate change, but you *are* change. The Fool in Fool's Fate Robin Hobb fate hate struggle No. This is right. I feel it. I am the Catalyst, and I came to change all things. Prophets become warriors, dragons hunt as wolves. Fitz in Assassin's Quest Robin Hobb quests warrior dragons I thought we had lost you. I thought we'd done something worse than let you die.' His old arms were tight and strong about me. I was kind to the old man. I did not tell him they had. Robin Hobb strong done men Fitz fixes fyces fitz.Fatsafices. Robin Hobb Locked into loneliness were we two and looking at one another every evening we each saw the one we blamed for it. Robin Hobb saws loneliness two All events, no matter how earthshaking or bizarre, are diluted within moments of their occurrence the the continuance of the necessary routines of day-to-day. -Fitz Most prisons are of our own making. A man makes his own freedom, too. -Chade When you cut pieces out of the truth to avoid looking like a fool, you end up sounding like a moron instead. -Burrich We left. Walking uphill and into the wind. That suddenly seemed a metaphor for my whole life. -Fitz Robin Hobb cutting wind men How do you politely explain to someone that you had believed for years he was a moron as well as a Fool? Robin Hobb assassins fool years When considering a man's motives, remember you must not measure his wheat with your bushel. He may not be using the same standard at all. Robin Hobb remembers-you remember-you men Life is not a race to restore a past situation. Nor does one have to hurry to meet the future. Seeing how things change is what makes life interesting. Robin Hobb race past interesting You can be the dead fish. I'll be the old stick Robin Hobb fishes sticks The truth, I discovered, is a tree that grows as a man gains access to experience. A child sees the acorn of his daily life, but a man looks back on the oak. Robin Hobb tree men children Wolves have no kings. Robin Hobb kings Everybody has felt at one time or another that everyone else in the world had a better shot than they did, so when you engage that, you engage the reader, and I think you create a character that brings the reader more fully into the story. Robin Hobb stories character thinking You are confusing plumbing and love again. Robin Hobb plumbing confusing and-love To be part of a family, or any community, is to have duties and responsibility, to be bound by the rules of that group. Robin Hobb groups community responsibility