01c. 1952 ADA while later, I lingered in the hinterlands of sleep. Sometimes I think there is more rest in that place between wakefulness and sleep than there is in true sleep. The mind walks in the twilight of both states, and finds the truths that are hidden alike by daylight and dreams. Things we are not ready to know abide in that place, awaiting that unguarded frame of mind.Robin Hobb / quote ↗
03c. 1952 ADRegrets are useless, " the Fool replied. "All you can do is start from where you are.Robin Hobb / quote ↗
04c. 1952 ADDespite my pain, I felt not the regret of an ending, but the foreboding of a beginning.Robin Hobb / quote ↗
05c. 1952 ADIf he ever wanted vengeance on me for all I did, he has it now. This is the worst thing he could do to me. Now I know how it feels to be left behind. As I left him.Robin Hobb / quote ↗
06c. 1952 ADAs if he hadn't always known he was loved the best. That he was the Beloved.Robin Hobb / quote ↗
07c. 1952 ADHis face was so ravaged, it was like looking at death itself. Except for the smooth, silvered part of it. By creeping degrees, his human hand lifted. He turned it over, showing a bloody palm. His cracked lips moved. Beloved.He could not say the word, but I knew it. So did his Fool.Robin Hobb / quote ↗
08c. 1952 ADI could not make it right, but I could make someone pay for how wrong it had been.Robin Hobb / quote ↗
09c. 1952 ADThis was misery that could not yield, for he sorrowed for a time he could not return to, and a self he would never again be.Robin Hobb / quote ↗
10c. 1952 ADOne does not have to be Witted to know the companionship of a beast, and to know that the friendship of an animal is every bit as rich and complicated as that of a man or woman.Robin Hobb / quote ↗
11c. 1952 ADWhen the mainstay of one's world is taken away, it's only natural to cling to all the rest, to try desperately to keep things as close to the way they were as one can." He shook his head sorrowfully. "But no one can ever go back to yesterday.Robin Hobb / quote ↗
12c. 1952 ADI don't want to have these burdens. But I can't bear to turn them over to anyone else, either. Because, despite all the work, I like being in control of my own life.Robin Hobb / quote ↗
13c. 1952 ADWhy not break free now, and make Bingtown a place where folk begin anew, all men standing on an equal footing?""And all women, too."She must be Sparse's daughter, thought Keffria. Even her voice echoed his in tone. Devouchet looked at her in surprise."It was but a manner of speaking, Ekke," he said mildly."A manner of speaking becomes a manner of thinking.Robin Hobb / quote ↗
14c. 1952 ADThere is a dead spot in the night, that coldest, blackest time when the world has forgotten evening and dawn is not yet a promise. A time when it is far too early to arise, but so late that going to bed makes small sense.Robin Hobb / quote ↗
15c. 1952 ADI think I made a better boy than I do a man, I admitted ruefully to the wolf. Why not wait until you've been at it a bit longer and then decide? he suggested.Robin Hobb / quote ↗
16c. 1952 ADI feared my own kind more than anything the natural world could ever threaten me with.Robin Hobb / quote ↗
17c. 1952 ADI must talk to Kennit first. He will tell me when he is ready for us to have a baby.""Never," Bolt said flatly."What?""Never wait for a male on any such decision. You are the queen. You decide. Males are not made for such decisions. I have seen it time and time again. They would have you wait for days of sunshine and wealth and plenty. Yet to a male, enough is never sufficient, and plenty never reached. A queen knows that when times are hardest and game most scarce, that is when one must care most about the continuance of the race. Some things are not for males to decide.Robin Hobb / quote ↗
19c. 1952 ADThe fight isn't over until you win it...That's all you have to remember. No matter what the other man thinks.Robin Hobb / quote ↗
21c. 1952 ADIt's not the sort of thing one asks of a friend. He hasn't offered, and I will not ask it. I will not tear him that way. I am trying to let go. I don't know how.Robin Hobb / quote ↗
22c. 1952 ADYou will live to love again. You know you have lost your springtime girl, your Molly on the beach with the wind in her brown hair and red cloak. You have been gone too long from her, and too much has befallen you both. And what you loved, what both of you truly loved, was not each other. It was the time of your life. It was the spring of your years, and life running strong in you, and war on your doorstep and your strong, perfect bodies. Look back, in truth. You will find you recall fully as many quarrels and tears as you do lovemaking and kisses. Fitz. Be wise. Let her go, and keep those memories intact. Save what you can of her, and let her keep what she can of the wild and daring boy she loved. Because both he and that merry little miss are no more than memories anymore." She shook her head. "No more than memories.Robin Hobb / quote ↗
23c. 1952 ADHad they been dogs they would have sniffed me over and then drawn back. But humans have no such inbred courtesies.Robin Hobb / quote ↗
24c. 1952 ADBesides, if there were no dragons of flesh and blood and fire, whence would come the idea for these stone carvings?Robin Hobb / quote ↗
