“if love doesnt come first and linger after, if love cant wait and endure disappointment and seperation, then its not love.”
― Robin Hobb, quote from Golden Fool
“You seek a false comfort when you demand that I define myself for you with words. Words do not contain or define any person. A heart can, if it is willing.”
― Robin Hobb, quote from Golden Fool
“But change proves that you are still alive. Change often measures our tolerance for folk different from ourselves. Can we accept their languages, their customs, their garments, and their foods into our own lives? If we can, then we form bonds, bonds that make wars less likely. If we cannot, if we believe that we must do things as we have always done them, then we must either fight to remain as we are, or die”
― Robin Hobb, quote from Golden Fool
“We are the sum of all we have done added to the sum of all that has been done to us.”
― Robin Hobb, quote from Golden Fool
“It's all connected. When you save any part of the world, you've saved the whole world. In fact, that's the only way it can be done.”
― Robin Hobb, quote from Golden Fool
“To recognize you are the source of your own loneliness is not a cure for it. But it is a step toward seeing that it is not inevitable, and that such a choice is not irrevocable.”
― Robin Hobb, quote from Golden Fool
“You know what I feel for you. You have known it for years. Let us not, you and I, alone here, pretend that you don’t. You know I love you. I always have. I always will”
― Robin Hobb, quote from Golden Fool
“Remember with your heart. Go back, go back and go back. The skies of this world were always meant to have dragons. When they are not here, humans miss them. Some never think of them, of course. But some children, from the time they are small, they look up at the blue summer sky and watch for something that never comes. Because they know. Something that was supposed to be there faded and vanished. Something that we must bring back, you and I.”
― Robin Hobb, quote from Golden Fool
“Truth can well out of a man like blood from a wound, and it can be just as disconcerting to look at.”
― Robin Hobb, quote from Golden Fool
“One man armed with the right word may do what an army of swordsmen cannot.”
― Robin Hobb, quote from Golden Fool
“You always chose to be bound by who you are. Now choose to be freed by who you are.”
― Robin Hobb, quote from Golden Fool
“Still I promise myself, "Next time I will do better" in the all-too-human conceit that I will always be offered a "next time.”
― Robin Hobb, quote from Golden Fool
“To 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 from Golden Fool
“We all perish in our last attempt to live.”
― Robin Hobb, quote from Golden Fool
“There is always power in holding a secret.”
― Robin Hobb, quote from Golden Fool
“Few things have such sharp edges as the careless words of a boy.”
― Robin Hobb, quote from Golden Fool
“Strange, how being left out of a secret always feels like a betrayal of trust.”
― Robin Hobb, quote from Golden Fool
“...some secrets beg to be betrayed. The secret of undeclared love is like that.”
― Robin Hobb, quote from Golden Fool
“I truly wanted to live a life in which I could make my own choices, independent of the 'duties' of my birth and position. It was only when fate granted that to me that I realized the cost of it. I could set aside my responsibilities to others and live my life as I please only when I also severed my ties to them. I could not have it both ways.”
― Robin Hobb, quote from Golden Fool
“Silence asks the questions that are too awkward to phrase. It even asks the questions one does not know to ask.”
― Robin Hobb, quote from Golden Fool
“Perhaps having the courage to find a better path is having the courage to risk making new mistakes.”
― Robin Hobb, quote from Golden Fool
“How strange to be loved simply for who I was.”
― Robin Hobb, quote from Golden Fool
“There are few things so tender as a man's dignity.”
― Robin Hobb, quote from Golden Fool
“Having something explained to you does not always solve it.”
― Robin Hobb, quote from Golden Fool
“We were both smiling, in that bittersweet way one does when imagining something the heart longs for and the head would dread.”
― Robin Hobb, quote from Golden Fool
“It’s all connected. When you save any part of the world, you’ve saved the whole world. In fact, that’s the only way it can be done.”
― Robin Hobb, quote from Golden Fool
“Trust had. But I had broken that, like a child who takes something apart to see how it works and ends up with a handful of pieces. Perhaps he could not be the Fool again, any more than I could go back to being Burrich’s stable boy. Perhaps our relationship had changed too profoundly for us to relate as Fitz and the Fool. Perhaps Tom Badgerlock and Lord Golden were all that was left to us.”
― Robin Hobb, quote from Golden Fool
“We didn't have to share a mind to share a heart.”
― Robin Hobb, quote from Golden Fool
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“I've been in love for five hundred million years…”
― Italo Calvino, quote from Cosmicomics
“And I am not one of those women who trips twice over the same stone.”
― Isabel Allende, quote from Inés of My Soul
“- What do you expect? Think we were sent into the world to have a soft time and what is it? Float on flowery beds of ease? Think Man was just made to be happy?
- Why not? Though I've never discovered anybody that knew what the deuce Man really was made for!
- Well, we know not just in the Bible alone, but it stands to reason a man who doesn't buckle down and do his duty, even if it does bore him sometimes, is nothing but a... well, he's simply a weakling. Mollycoddle, in fact! And what do you advocate? Come down to cases! If a man is bored by his wife, do you seriously mean he has a right to chuck her and take a sneak, or even kill himself?
- Good Lord, I don't know what 'rights' a man has! And I don't know the solution of boredom. If I did, I'd be the one philosopher that had the cure for living. But I do know that about ten times as many people find their lives dull, and unnecessarily dull, as ever admit it; and I do believe that if we busted out and admitted it sometimes, instead of being nice and patient and loyal for sixty years, and then nice and patient and dead for the rest of eternity, why, maybe, possibly, we might make life more fun.”
― Sinclair Lewis, quote from Babbitt
“Don’t leave. I want you to be with me.”
“You’ll have your family.”
I swallow before I say the words that will change this relationship forever. “You’re the one I need.”
“But that would mean meeting your family.”
It does, and I’m okay with that if it means she’s by my side. “I don’t care. I need you to be with me.”
She smiles and cradles my face with her hands. “Of course. I’ll come if it’s what you want, but this is going to change everything.”
“I know, but it’s what I want.”
― Georgia Cates, quote from Beauty from Pain
“She had agreed to marry him without realizing that marriage brought a kind a simple pleasure, a pleasure in the continued company of another human being, the act of caring, of carrying with you the thought of someone else. She would, she supposed, never see him age beyond the present day, and found that the thought made her immeasurably sad. Somewhere,”
― Robert Goolrick, quote from A Reliable Wife
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