01UndatedFool, there is no sense in trying to play that game with the past. Here is where we are today, and we can only make our moves from here.Robin Hobb / quote ↗
02UndatedThere are endings. There are beginnings. Sometimes they coincide, with the ending of one thing marking the beginning of another. But sometimes there is simply a long space after an ending, a time when it seems everything else has ended and nothing else can ever begin.Robin Hobb / quote ↗
03UndatedBack when he had first come to the monastery, they had given him a very simple ritual called Forgiving the Day. Even the youngest child could do this; all it required was looking back over the day and dismissing the day’s pains as a thing that were past while choosing to remember as gains lessons learned or moments of insight. As initiates grew in the ways of Sa, it was expected they would grow more sophisticated in this exercise, learning to balance the day, taking responsibility for their own actions and learning from them without indulging in either guilt or regrets."p. 240Robin Hobb / quote ↗
04UndatedStrange, how being left out of a secret always feels like a betrayal of trust.Robin Hobb / quote ↗
05UndatedTo 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 / quote ↗
06UndatedThe days we shared I alone would remember now.I suddenly felt less real.Robin Hobb / quote ↗
07UndatedHis absence seemed a solid thing, a burden I must carry in addition to my grief... Yet I knew I would continue to live. Sometimes that knowledge seemed the worst part of my loss.Robin Hobb / quote ↗
09UndatedI lied!' I spat my whisper at him. 'I knew you read my journal. I knew you read my dreams. I wrote there what I thought would hurt you most! I lied to hurt you. For letting him be dead while you lived. For being loved by him more than he loved me!' I took a breath. 'He loved you more than he ever loved any of the rest of us!Robin Hobb / quote ↗
10UndatedSome part of me knew that was important. That once it would have mattered terribly to me.Robin Hobb / quote ↗
11UndatedFor he was the Fool now, all of Lord Chance and Lady Amber and Lord Golden scraped away by sorrow. He was no one's Beloved now.Robin Hobb / quote ↗
12Undated...You won't even see what is put right on the table before you. Men. If it was raining soup you'd be out there with a fork.Robin Hobb / quote ↗
13UndatedAs dye soaks fibres, drawn into them to change their colour forever, so does a memory, stinging or sweet, change the fibre of a man’s character.Robin Hobb / quote ↗
14UndatedEvery small, unselfish action nudges the world into a better path. An accumulation of small acts can change the world.Robin Hobb / quote ↗
15UndatedI was lonely, and a lonely heart has hungers that can overpower both common sense and dignity.Robin Hobb / quote ↗
17UndatedThe problem is not that we forget the past. It is that we recall it too well. Children recall wrongs that enemies did to their grandfathers, and blame the granddaughters of the old enemies. Children are not born with memories of those who insulted their mother or slew their grandfather or stole their land. Those hates are bequeathed to them, taught them, breathed into them. If adults didn't tell their children of their hereditary hates, perhaps we would do better.Robin Hobb / quote ↗
18UndatedThey were all gone now, broken or taken by people who had no idea what such items represented. Let them go. She held the past in her heart, with no need of physical items to tie it down.Robin Hobb / quote ↗
19Undated...there was no point in sighing after what I could not have. It only distracted me from what I did have.Robin Hobb / quote ↗
21UndatedIf all of her was not enough for him, then let him have none of her and seek what he needed elsewhere.Robin Hobb / quote ↗
22Undated...some secrets beg to be betrayed. The secret of undeclared love is like that.Robin Hobb / quote ↗
23Undated...once students have been taught that learning is tedious, difficult, and useless, they will never learn another lesson.Robin Hobb / quote ↗
