Robin Hobb Quotes That Will Inspire You to Live Your Best Life

1. I feared my own kind more than anything the natural world could ever threaten me with. Assassin's Quest

2. That no man can truly imagine being happy and that's why happiness isn't for sale here. Ship of Magic

3. When you cut pieces out of the truth to avoid looking like a fool you end up looking like a moron instead. Assassin's Apprentice

4. Fate rushes down upon us! The time drags and the days plod past, lulling us into thinking that the doom we fear will always so delay. Then, abruptly, the dark days we have all predicted are upon us, and the time when we could have turned dire fate aside has passed. How old must I be before I learn? There is no time; there is never any time. Tomorrow may never come, but todays are inexorably linked in a chain, and now is always the only time we have to divert disaster. The Mad Ship

5. Is time the wheel that turns, or the track it leaves behind? Fool's Errand

6. Stop longing. You poison today’s ease, reaching always for tomorrow. Fool's Errand

7. That little knife of knowing stabbed into her at every step. Ship of Magic

8. The knowledge that he had left me with no intent ever to return had come over me in tiny droplets of realization spread over the years. And each droplet of comprehension brought its own small measure of hurt...He had wished me well in finding my own fate to follow, and I never doubted his sincerity. But it had taken me years to accept that his absence in my life was a deliberate finality, an act he had chosen, a thing completed even as some part of my soul still dangled, waiting for his return. Fool's Assassin

9. This is philosophy, Fool. I have never had time to study such things.’ ‘No, Fitz, this is life. And no one has time not to think of such things. Each creature in the world should consider this thing, every moment of the heart’s beating. Otherwise, what is the point of arising each day? Royal Assassin