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
short-life past feelings
Do you do this because you live such short lives? Tell yourselves wild tales of what might happen tomorrow, and feel all the feelings of events that will never happen? Perhaps to make up for the pasts you cannot recall, you invent futures that will not exist.
dog men grieving
Men cannot grieve as dogs do. But they grieve for many years.
writing robins your-future
Your future. It awaits only you, to live it and to write it. - Shaman's Crossing by Robin Hobb
men dangerous
No man is so dangerous as the man who cannot decide what he fears.
done
Don’t do what you can’t undo, until you’ve considered what you can’t do once you’ve done it.
mean thinking talking
Everyone thinks that courage is about facing death without flinching. But almost anyone can do that. Almost anyone can hold their breath and not scream for as long as it takes to die. True courage is about facing life without flinching. I don't mean the times when the right path is hard, but glorious at the end. I'm talking about enduring the boredom, the messiness, and the inconvenience of doing what is right. ~Amber
fighting men winning
The fight isn't over until you win it, Fitz. That's all you have to remember. No matter what the other man says.
thinking magic world
I think that old magic draws much of its strength from that acknowledgment: that we are a part of that world.
disappointment waiting firsts
if love doesnt come first and linger after, if love cant wait and endure disappointment and seperation, then its not love.
warrior dragons quests
No. This is right. I feel it. I am the Catalyst, and I came to change all things. Prophets become warriors, dragons hunt as wolves. Fitz in Assassin's Quest
years assassins fool
How do you politely explain to someone that you had believed for years he was a moron as well as a Fool? Fitz in Assassin's Apprentice
hate struggle acceptance
Ah, Catylast, can it be that you do not see all the changes you have made? Some by your resignation and acceptance of circumstance, some by your wild struggles. You say that you hate change, but you *are* change. The Fool in Fool's Fate
bleeding flesh scar
I healed. Not completely. A scar is never the same as good flesh, but it stops the bleeding.
worry useless may
Useless to worry until we find outselves blocked. ... If it happens, then we must simply find a way around it. It may slow us down. But we will never get there at all if we stand still and worry.