Robin Hobb
Robin Hobb
Robin Hobb is a pseudonym of Margaret Astrid Lindholm Ogden, an American writer. She is best known for the books set in the Realm of the Elderlings, which started in 1995 with the publication of Assassin's Apprentice, the first book in the Farseer trilogy...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth5 March 1952
CityBerkeley, CA
CountryUnited States of America
escaping years justice
Sometimes it seems unfair that events so old can reach forward through the years, sinking claws into one's life and twisting all that follows it. Yet perhaps that is the ultimate justice: we are the sum of all we have done added to the sum of all that has been done to us. There is no escaping that, not for any of us.
gloves fists velvet
Diplomacy is the velvet glove that cloaks the fist of power.
silence tongue asks
Silence can ask all the questions, where the tongue is prone to ask only the wrong one.
ease today poison
Stop longing.You poison today’s ease, reaching always for tomorrow.
men brag knows
The man who must brag for himself knows that no one else will
pain why-not anticipation
Anticipating pain was like enduring it twice. Why not anticipate pleasure instead?
mean boredom trying
Boredom is vastly underrated. Boredom means that nothing is trying to kill you every day.
bed arise late
A time when it is far too early to arise, but so late that going to bed makes small sense.