Quote

Locked into loneliness were we two and looking at one another every evening we each saw the one we blamed for it.

Robin Hobb

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Robin Hobb
Age: 72
Born: 1952
Born: March 5
Novelist
Science Fiction Writer
Writer
Berkeley
California
Margaret Astrid Lindholm Ogden
Megan Lindholm
Margaret Astrid Lindholm
Loneliness
Saws
Looking
Another
Two
Every
Blamed
Locked
Evening

More quotes by Robin Hobb

Image
Cats talk to whomever they please.
Robin Hobb
Image
Every writer knows a lot more about their characters and story than actually makes it onto the page.
Robin Hobb
Image
Tomorrow owes you the sum of your yesterdays. No more than that. And no less.
Robin Hobb
Image
How different would our perception of reality be if... we discarded the mundane events that cannot coexist with our dreams?
Robin Hobb
Image
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
Image
As I apologized to her a flicker of panic raced through me and then faded away. There wasn't enough life left in me to panic. I'd made a mistake and I was dying. Apparently not even a Speck afterlife was available to me. I'd simply stop being. Apparently I hadn't died correctly. Oops.
Robin Hobb
Image
I never confuse the cost of something with its value
Robin Hobb
Image
You can be the dead fish. I'll be the old stick
Robin Hobb
Image
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
Image
One can only walk so far from one's true self before the bond either snaps, or pulls one back.
Robin Hobb
Image
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
Image
It's too late to apologize for. I have already forgiven you.
Robin Hobb
Image
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
Image
There is little in life so reassuring as a genuine welcome.
Robin Hobb
Image
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
Image
Besides, if there were no dragons of flesh and blood and fire, whence would come the idea for these stone carvings?
Robin Hobb
Image
What a man can take with a sword, a woman can give by her flesh alone. Life.
Robin Hobb
Image
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
Image
Men of passion and vision are often seen as mad.
Robin Hobb
Image
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