“Look forward, not back. Correct your course and go on. You cannot undo yesterday's journey.”
― Robin Hobb, quote from Ship of Magic
“For the weakest has but to try his strength to find it, and then he shall be strong.”
― Robin Hobb, quote from Ship of Magic
“One must plan for the future and anticipate the future without fearing the future.”
― Robin Hobb, quote from Ship of Magic
“What you are born to be, you will be, whether it be priest or sailor. So step up and be it. Let them do nothing to you. Be the one who shapes yourself. Be who you are, and eventually all will have to recognize who you are, whether they are willing to admit it or not.”
― Robin Hobb, quote from Ship of Magic
“When you borrow trouble against what might be, you neglect the moment you have now to enjoy. The man who worries about what will next be happening to him loses this moment in dread of the next, and poisons the next with pre-judgment.”
― Robin Hobb, quote from Ship of Magic
“Many will rant and rave against the garment fate has woven for them, but they pick it up and don it all the same, and most wear it to the end of their days. You... you would rather go naked into the storm.”
― Robin Hobb, quote from Ship of Magic
“Only my pain is more silent than my anger.”
― Robin Hobb, quote from Ship of Magic
“I bite my tongue and scowl my love, lest passion make me slave.”
― Robin Hobb, quote from Ship of Magic
“Somehow," she said coldly, "you have confused profitable and not profitable for right and wrong. I, however, have not.”
― Robin Hobb, quote from Ship of Magic
“As long as you believe it is impossible, you close your mind to understanding it.”
― Robin Hobb, quote from Ship of Magic
“Refuse the anxiety. When you borrow trouble against what might be, you neglect the moment you have now to enjoy. The man who worries about what will next be happening to him loses this moment in dread of the next, and poisons the next with pre-judgment.”
― Robin Hobb, quote from Ship of Magic
“I sleep like an old woman now, she thought to herself. In fits and starts. It isn’t sleeping and it isn’t waking and it isn’t rest.”
― Robin Hobb, quote from Ship of Magic
“That no man can truly imagine being happy and that's why happiness isn't for sale here.”
― Robin Hobb, quote from Ship of Magic
“I can see that you go through life athwart it. You see the flow of events, you are able to tell how you could most easily fit yourself into it. But you dare to oppose it. And why? Simply because you look at it and say, 'this fate does not suit me. I will not allow it to befall me.'" Amber shook her head, but her small smile made it an affirmation. "I have always admired people who can do that. So few do. Many, of course, will rant and rave against the garment fate has woven for them, but they pick it up and on it all the same, and most wear it to the end of their days. You... you would rather go naked into the storm.”
― Robin Hobb, quote from Ship of Magic
“I don't think I can stand it much longer,” he warned her. “Something will have to give way. And I fear it will be me… I've just been living from day to day. Waiting for something or someone else to change the situation… I think I need to make a real decision. I believe I need to take action on my own.”
― Robin Hobb, quote from Ship of Magic
“It was a terrible division, to feel such need for someone, and yet angry that need existed.”
― Robin Hobb, quote from Ship of Magic
“Refuse anxiety. When you borrow trouble against what might be, you neglect the moment you have now to enjoy. The man who worries about what will next be happening to him loses this moment in dread of the next with pre-judgement”
― Robin Hobb, quote from Ship of Magic
“Gankis lifted an arm to point at the distant shale cliffs. "And in the face of it there were thousands of little holes, little what-you-call-'ems..."
"Alcoves," Kennit supplied in an almost dreamy voice. "I call them alcoves, Gankis. As would you, if you could speak your own mother tongue.”
― Robin Hobb, quote from Ship of Magic
“The man who worries about what will next be happening to him loses this moment in dread of the next, and poisons the next with pre-judgement.”
― Robin Hobb, quote from Ship of Magic
“Althea had never known that misery could achieve perfection. Only now, as she sat staring at her emptied glass, did she grasp how completely wrong her world had become. Things had been bad before, things had been flawed, but it was only today that she had made one stupid decision after another until everything was as completely wrong as it could possibly be.”
― Robin Hobb, quote from Ship of Magic
“It was not that these emotions were unworthy or inappropriate; it was simply that they were wasted upon the man.”
― Robin Hobb, quote from Ship of Magic
“Kyle saw them as a double-pronged problem: the ship that would not heed his wishes because of a boy that would not be what his father commanded him to be.”
― Robin Hobb, quote from Ship of Magic
“if something made a man feel bad then he must determine what about it troubled him, and eliminate that. Simply to suffer the discomforts of guilt did not indicate a man had improved himself, only that he suspected he harbored a fault.”
― Robin Hobb, quote from Ship of Magic
“Amber?” he said pleadingly. His voice went high on her name and broke, as it sometimes did when he was afraid. “Are you taking my beads away?”
― Robin Hobb, quote from Ship of Magic
“When 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 from Ship of Magic
“I’ve just been living from day to day. Waiting for something or someone else to change the situation.” His eyes studied her face, looking for a reaction to his next words. “I think I need to make a real decision. I believe I need to take action on my own.”
― Robin Hobb, quote from Ship of Magic
“It was not that she was a better-tempered person, she decided detachedly. It was that her anger had learned a terrible patience. What good was wasting words on a petty and tyrannical second mate? He was a little yapping dog. She was a tigress. One did not waste snarls on such a creature. One waited until one could snap his spine with a single blow.”
― Robin Hobb, quote from Ship of Magic
“But that is not true for all folk. Some folk are meant to argue with fate. And win.”
― Robin Hobb, quote from Ship of Magic
“Once a person had realized death, if they could turn aside from pain they immediately turned toward wonder and Sa. It took both steps, Wintrow knew that. If a person had not accepted death as a reality, the touch could be refused. Some accepted death and the touch, but could not let go of their pain. They clung to it as a final vestige of life.”
― Robin Hobb, quote from Ship of Magic
“Artists and whores, gold always bought them. An artist was no more than a whore who had been well-paid.”
― Robin Hobb, quote from Ship of Magic
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― Karen Kingsbury, quote from Forgiven
“Lawrence was twenty-five. If he lived in a town he’d be married and taking his wife and children to church. His life was half over, and Holo’s childish demeanor penetrated his lonely heart.”
― Isuna Hasekura, quote from Spice & Wolf, Vol. 01
“It was strange to stand there in front of the mirror and see myself like I was my own best friend, a kid wanted to hang with forever. This was a boy I could travel to the seacoasts with, a boy I'd like to meet up with in foreign cities like Calcutta and London and Brazil, a boy I could trust who also had a good sense of humor and liked smoked oysters from a can and good weed and the occasional 40 ounces of malt. If I was going to be alone for the rest of my life this was the person I wanted to be alone with.”
― Russell Banks, quote from Rule of the Bone
“When we heard those shots and he saw Ploeg lying in front of the house, what he said was, 'My God, the lizards!'"
With wide-eyed disbelief Anton looked out over her head.”
― Harry Mulisch, quote from The Assault
“I had the foresight to pick up a shard of china—the faded pink china bow of the shepherdess’s apron—and plant it in Ina’s shoe that night, hoping to incriminate her instead, I did not fool Mamma.”
― Melanie Benjamin, quote from Alice I Have Been
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