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
lonely somewhere-else family-and-friends
...sometimes it only makes one more lonely to know that somewhere else, one's friends and family are well.
hurt writing boys
I wonder if I can write this history, or if on every page there will be some sneaking show of a bitterness I thought long dead. I think myself cured of all spite, but when I touch pen to paper, the hurt of a boy bleeds out with the sea-spawned ink, until I suspect each carefully formed black letter scabs over some ancient scarlet wound.
responsibility community groups
To be part of a family, or any community, is to have duties and responsibility, to be bound by the rules of that group.
differences fool world
What good is a life lived as if it made no difference at all to the great life of the world? - Fool
thinking done only-time
Stop thinking of what you intend to do. Stop thinking of what you have just done. Then, stop thinking that you have stopped thinking of those things. Then you will find the Now, the time that stretches eternal, and is really the only time there is.
strong trying
For the weakest has but to try his strength to find it, and then he shall be strong.
dream giving-up mistake
Love isn't just about feeling sure of the other person, knowing what he would give up for you. It's knowing with certainty what you are willing to surrender for his sake. Make no mistake; each partner gives up something. Individual dreams are surrendered for a shared one.
mistake risk path
Perhaps having the courage to find a better path is having the courage to risk making new mistakes.
prayer dying offers
For, "Yes," he had sighed on his dying breath, and all knew that was the ultimate prayer one could offer to life.
war believe fighting
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
past lasts fixed
History is no more fixed and dead than the future. The past is no further away than the last breath you took.
pain mind-your-own-business not-sure
Fitz: How bad is it? Nighteyes: Mind your own business. Fitz: You ARE my business. Nighteyes: Sharing pain doesn’t loosen it. Fitz: I’m not sure about THAT.
pigs tomorrow get-up
Fitz: Shall we get up tomorrow and go looking for a wild pig? Nighteyes: I didn’t lose any wild pigs, did you?
inspirational family home
Home is people. Not a place. If you go back there after the people are gone, then all you can see is what is not there any more.