02c. 1952 ADI wanted us to share all our lives. You wish to keep me in a box, separate from your life. I cannot be someone you come to when you have nothing more important to do.Robin Hobb / quote ↗
04c. 1952 ADA terrible premonition washed over me. This was how the whole world would end.... They would devour the forest and excrete piles of buildings made of stone wrenched from the earth or from dead trees. They would hammer paths of bare stone between their dwellings, and dirty the rivers and subdue the land until it could recall only the will of man. They could not stop themselves from doing what they did. They did not see what they did, and even if they saw, they did not know how to stop. They no longer knew what was enough.Robin Hobb / quote ↗
05c. 1952 ADThat is one thing that in all my years among your folk I have never become accustomed to. The great importance that you attach to what gender one is.Robin Hobb / quote ↗
06c. 1952 ADAnd like a child, I'd be testing the people who loved me, pulling away from them almost for the sole reason of seeing if anyone would come after me.Robin Hobb / quote ↗
07c. 1952 ADWhen you want a thing so badly for so long, and then it comes time to face that you cannot have it, sometimes—’‘Sometimes you can’t believe it when it comes to you. Sometimes you’re afraid to believe it. I understand your hesitation.Robin Hobb / quote ↗
08c. 1952 ADWhen you cut pieces out of the truth to avoid looking like a fool, you end up sounding like a moron instead.Robin Hobb / quote ↗
09c. 1952 ADPerhaps once one realised how deeply one could bond with a creature as foreign as a dragon, all forms of human love seemed more acceptable.Robin Hobb / quote ↗
10c. 1952 ADDid you feel that?' I asked him.He smiled sadly. 'Fitz, I have never needed to touch you to feel that. It was always there. No limits.Robin Hobb / quote ↗
11c. 1952 ADI wish they would all go away.Except the Fool. I wished he would join me. Somehow, I had always thought he would join me. Now, I could not recall why. Perhaps I had buried that in the stone.Robin Hobb / quote ↗
13c. 1952 ADI should live each day as if it were significant, as if everyday the fate of the world depended on my action.Robin Hobb / quote ↗
15c. 1952 ADAnd so the Wolf of the West rose from the stone! And so he will rise again if ever the folk of the Six Duchies call to him in need.Robin Hobb / quote ↗
16c. 1952 ADPerhaps the greatest thing one can discover is that you can decide who you are. You don't have to be whom the Ludlucks made you. You don't even have to be who you were before that. You can choose. We are all creatures of our own devising.Robin Hobb / quote ↗
17c. 1952 ADI am shocked to find that some people think a 2 star 'I liked it' rating is a bad rating. What? I liked it. I LIKED it! That means I read the whole thing, to the last page, in spite of my life raining comets on me. It's a good book that survives the reading process with me. If a book is so-so, it ends up under the bed somewhere, or maybe under a stinky judo bag in the back of the van. So a 2 star from me means,yes, I liked the book, and I'd loan it to a friend and it went everywhere in my jacket pocket or purse until I finished it. A 3 star means that I've ignored friends to finish it and my sink is full of dirty dishes. A 4 star means I'm probably in trouble with my editor for missing a deadline because I was reading this book. But I want you to know . . . I don't finish books I don't like. There's too many good ones out there waiting to be found. Robin Hobb, authorRobin Hobb / quote ↗
18c. 1952 ADBut if she is alone now, it is because she chose to be alone, not someone decree if for her. Her life is hers to live, not yours to repair.Robin Hobb / quote ↗
19c. 1952 ADBoredom is vastly underrated. Boredom means that nothing is trying to kill you every day.Robin Hobb / quote ↗
20c. 1952 ADThey regarded our passage not at all, and by the afternoon I felt no more significant than an ant. I had never thought to be disdained by a tree.Robin Hobb / quote ↗
