Robin Hobb quote: "If he ever wanted vengeance on me for all I did, he has it now. This is the worst thing he could do to me. Now I know how it feels to be left behind. As I left him."

Sometimes I regret that the wonderful children's stories that have been made into movies were - ...
ROBIN HOBB

I think ever since I started to read, there have been favorite novels for different stages of my lif...
ROBIN HOBB

Stop longing.You poison today’s ease, reaching always for tomorrow.
ROBIN HOBB

That is the challenge Companion. To take what has happened to you and learn from it. Nothing is quit...
ROBIN HOBB

He shook his head pityingly. “This, more than anything else, is what I have never understood about...
ROBIN HOBB

The knowledge that he had left me with no intent ever to return had come over me in tiny droplets of...
ROBIN HOBB

He had wished me well in finding my own fate to follow, and I never doubted his sincerity. But it ha...
ROBIN HOBB

Our own ambitions and tasks that we set for ourselves, the framework we attempt to impose upon the w...
ROBIN HOBB

I have found the old adages to be true. One can only walk so far from one’s true self before the b...
ROBIN HOBB

I wish your father were alive, and king-in-waiting. And I his right-hand man still. He would be tell...
HOBB, ROBIN

Death is always less painful and easier than life! You speak true. And yet we do not, day to day, ch...
ROBIN HOBB

Leave the pain behind and let your life be your own again. There is a place where all time is now, a...
ROBIN HOBB

I healed. Not completely. A scar is never the same as good flesh, but it stops the bleeding.
ROBIN HOBB

Thinking is not always...comforting. It is always good, but not always comforting.
ROBIN HOBB

Not being able to think of a reply is not the same thing as accepting another's words.
ROBIN HOBB

Death is not the opposite of life, but the opposite of choice.
ROBIN HOBB

Very little worth knowing is taught by fear.
ROBIN HOBB

In that last dance of chances

I shall partner you no more.

I shall watch anoth...
ROBIN HOBB

When you cut pieces out of the truth to avoid looking like a fool you end up looking like a moron in...
ROBIN HOBB

Don’t do what you can’t undo, until you’ve considered what you can’t do once you’ve done i...
ROBIN HOBB

Everyone thinks that courage is about facing death without flinching. But almost anyone can do that....
ROBIN HOBB

His face was so ravaged, it was like looking at death itself. Except for the smooth, silvered part o...
ROBIN HOBB

We were one thing. A whole thing. You and I and Nighteyes. I felt a strange sort of peace. As if all...
ROBIN HOBB

For the weakest has but to try his strength to find it, and then he shall be strong.
ROBIN HOBB

Home is people. Not a place. If you go back there after the people are gone, then all you can see is...
ROBIN HOBB

Why does the forbidden always add that edge of sweetness?
ROBIN HOBB

Jonge mensen schijnen er altijd van overtuigd te zijn dat er later meer tijd zal komen,' merkte Burr...
ROBIN HOBB

Diplomacy is the velvet glove that cloaks the fist of power.
ROBIN HOBB

Assassins take no pride in fighting fairly. We take pride in winning.
ROBIN HOBB

Writing and reading fiction is, I think, a human effort to make sense of the world.
ROBIN HOBB

As if he hadn't always known he was loved the best. That he was the Beloved.
ROBIN HOBB

Ah, Catylast, can it be that you do not see all the changes you have made? Some by your resignation ...
ROBIN HOBB

The man who must brag for himself knows that no one else will
ROBIN HOBB

Anticipating pain was like enduring it twice. Why not anticipate pleasure instead?
ROBIN HOBB

Stop your whining. If you are frightened, be silent. Whining is for prey. It attracts predators. And...
ROBIN HOBB

Like a flower pressed flat and dried, we try to hold it still and say, this is exactly how it was th...
ROBIN HOBB

I lived my grief; I slept mourning and ate sorrow and drank tears. I ignored all else.
ROBIN HOBB

Fantasy encompasses a wide, wide spectrum of writing. We have beast fables, we have gothics, we have...
ROBIN HOBB

Dragons, to my way of thinking, are just another 'race' of sapient characters. We see lots o...
ROBIN HOBB

The world had to change and for some reason the prosperity of men always results in them taking ever...
ROBIN HOBB

People have to attempt to do right, even if they believe they cannot succeed
ROBIN HOBB

Be a man. Discover where you are now, and go on from there, making the best of things. Accept your l...
ROBIN HOBB

Gankis lifted an arm to point at the distant shale cliffs. "And in the face of it there were thousan...
ROBIN HOBB

What is a secret? It is much more than knowledge shared with only a few, or perhaps only one another...
ROBIN HOBB

Silent," the carved wizardwood on his wrist breathed. "Silent as a blinded ship, floating hull-up in...
ROBIN HOBB

Men cannot grieve as dogs do. But they grieve for many years.
ROBIN HOBB

The White Prophet's premise seems simple. He wished to set the world in a different path than the on...
ROBIN HOBB

The fight isn't over until you win.
ROBIN HOBB

Suspense was an excellent tool for keeping powerful people off balance. It gave one bargaining power...
ROBIN HOBB

I'll never miss a chance to remind you of what a brat you were. A gloriously beautiful and very spoi...
ROBIN HOBB

...it's strange, isn't it, how you don't know how big a part of you someone is until they're threate...
ROBIN HOBB

A while later, I lingered in the hinterlands of sleep. Sometimes I think there is more rest in that ...
ROBIN HOBB

So. I should just give up now?" she asked mildly. "Just let him spiral down into madness until the N...
ROBIN HOBB

I once knew of a minstrel who bragged of having had a thousand women, one time each. He would never ...
ROBIN HOBB

There are always choices. But sometimes there are no good ones.
ROBIN HOBB

If one bad thing befell me, I immediately linked it to every bad thing that had happened in the last...
ROBIN HOBB

...there was no point in sighing after what I could not have. It only distracted me from what I did ...
ROBIN HOBB

...some secrets beg to be betrayed. The secret of undeclared love is like that.
ROBIN HOBB

Life is a balance. We tend to forget that as we go blithely from day to day. We eat and drink and sl...
ROBIN HOBB

Everything she sang was true. I will leave it to you as to whether the truth can exist with details ...
ROBIN HOBB

Not intending to be funny: I sit at the keyboard, put my fingers on the keys and go. To me, it's...
ROBIN HOBB

Leave old pains alone. When they cease coming to call, do not invite them back.
ROBIN HOBB

I would say that many of the characters in my stories do not live in true poverty - they are not out...
ROBIN HOBB

What is a secret? It is much more than knowledge shared with only a few, or perhaps only one another...
ROBIN HOBB

...once students have been taught that learning is tedious, difficult, and useless, they will never ...
ROBIN HOBB

Sometimes people ask if my books have morals or lessons for readers, and I shudder at that thought. ...
ROBIN HOBB

The second thing you have to do to be a writer is to keep on writing. Don't listen to people who tel...
ROBIN HOBB

King Shrewd is expecting me, rather he isn't expecting me, and that is precisely why I must go to hi...
ROBIN HOBB

He gave a final shake of his coat. I go to the hunt!
ROBIN HOBB

It's not the sort of thing one asks of a friend. He hasn't offered, and I will not ask it. I will no...
ROBIN HOBB

Did you feel that?' I asked him.

He smiled sadly. 'Fitz, I have never needed to touch you...
ROBIN HOBB

I wish they would all go away.

Except the Fool. I wished he would join me. Somehow, I had...
ROBIN HOBB

What does who call me when?
ROBIN HOBB

When you cut pieces from the truth to avoid sounding like a fool, you end up sounding like a moron i...
ROBIN HOBB

We are whole
ROBIN HOBB

Despite my pain, I felt not the regret of an ending, but the foreboding of a beginning.
ROBIN HOBB

The truth, I discovered, is a tree that grows as a man gains access to experience. A child sees the ...
ROBIN HOBB

Regrets are useless, " the Fool replied. "All you can do is start from where you are.
ROBIN HOBB

All cats talk however they want. To whomever they want. But only a rude human speaks out of turn. Be...
ROBIN HOBB

Life is a balance. We tend to forget that as we go blithely from day to day. We eat and drink and sl...
ROBIN HOBB

One devoted to his cat would not leave it long alone. A cat’s loyalty is not a thing to be taken f...
ROBIN HOBB

And a Fool is supposed to be wise?
ROBIN HOBB

Some speak of the savagery of beasts. I will ever prefer that to the thoughtless contempt some men h...
ROBIN HOBB

You have been with me, as close as the tips of my fingers, even when we were years and seas apart. Y...
ROBIN HOBB

Leave off sniffing the carcass of your old life-do you enjoy unending pain? There is no shame in wal...
ROBIN HOBB

So, with all the wide world to choose from, you didn't choose at all. You simply stopped wandering o...
ROBIN HOBB

Fitz: How bad is it?
Nighteyes: Mind your own business.
Fitz: You ARE my business.
Ni...
ROBIN HOBB

I think that old magic draws much of its strength from that acknowledgment: that we are a part of th...
ROBIN HOBB

Wait for you? Not likely. I've always had to run ahead of you and show you the way.
ROBIN HOBB

There is little in life so reassuring as a genuine welcome.
ROBIN HOBB

Is time the wheel that turns, or the track it leaves behind?
ROBIN HOBB

You can be the dead fish. I'll be the old stick
ROBIN HOBB

I believed that by fixing it down in words, I could force sense from all that had happened, that eff...
ROBIN HOBB

If a man does not die of a wound, then it heals in some fashion, and so it is with loss. From the sh...
ROBIN HOBB

Fitz: Shall we get up tomorrow and go looking for a wild pig?
Nighteyes: I didn’t lose any wi...
ROBIN HOBB

The past is no further away than the last breath you took.
ROBIN HOBB

Silence can ask all the questions, where the tongue is prone to ask only the wrong one.
ROBIN HOBB

Dragons don't bother with introductions.
ROBIN HOBB

Remember with your heart. Go back, go back, and go back. The skies of this world were always meant t...
ROBIN HOBB

Besides, if there were no dragons of flesh and blood and fire, whence would come the idea for these ...
ROBIN HOBB

Oh, and you accuse me of flattery! Here I waddle about like a fat old duck and you try to tell me I'...
ROBIN HOBB

Many will rant and rave against the garment fate has woven for them, but they pick it up and don it ...
ROBIN HOBB

As much as I had always longed to be freed of my duties and obligations, being released from such bo...
ROBIN HOBB

Humans could never accept the world as it was and live in it. They were always breaking it and livin...
ROBIN HOBB

Perhaps there can be no thanks nor any blame, but only recognition of the forces that brought us and...
ROBIN HOBB

Once I got away from him, I was smart enough to stay away from him. To hunt that one is as wise as t...
ROBIN HOBB

When has been disappointed for so long, hope becomes the enemy. One cannot be dashed to the earth un...
ROBIN HOBB

You're not who he expected you to be; that doesn't mean you aren't somebody. Nor are you perfect. St...
ROBIN HOBB

He longed for cleanliness and tidiness: it was hard to find peace in the middle of disorder.
ROBIN HOBB

Bastard,” she spat at him, and she thought he had moved closer. She swung at him, and then suddenl...
ROBIN HOBB

Be content with you own life, my friend, and live it well. Let others decide for themselves what pat...
ROBIN HOBB

Do you not see how strange and wonderful that is? That all history balances on an affair of the huma...
ROBIN HOBB

I could set aside my responsibilities to others and live my life as I pleased only when I also sever...
ROBIN HOBB

If all of her was not enough for him, then let him have none of her and seek what he needed elsewher...
ROBIN HOBB

The essential truth is that sometimes you're worried that they'll find out it's a fluke,...
ROBIN WILLIAMS

In the process of looking for comedy, you have to be deeply honest. And in doing that, you'll fi...
ROBIN WILLIAMS

Commerce is against morality. Morality is going to lose every time.
ROBIN DAY

I left school and couldn't find acting work, so I started going to clubs where you could do stan...
ROBIN WILLIAMS

There's a show in America where all these people compete with ferrets, and they don't even d...
ROBIN WILLIAMS

I loved running, but all of a sudden everything hurt so much. I started cycling when Zelda was born.
ROBIN WILLIAMS

The idea of having a steady job is appealing.
ROBIN WILLIAMS

I'm much more open to being a supporting actor right now. At the age of 60, I'll be second f...
ROBIN WILLIAMS

Winning an Oscar is an honor, but, between you and me, it does not makes things easier.
ROBIN WILLIAMS

Tweets? That stuff kills conversation. And people taking pictures with their phone or recording you,...
ROBIN WILLIAMS

You have this idea that you'd better keep working otherwise people will forget. And that was dan...
ROBIN WILLIAMS

I love kids, but they are a tough audience.
ROBIN WILLIAMS

I don't have a college degree, and my father didn't have a college degree, so when my son, Z...
ROBIN WILLIAMS

Look at the walls of Pompeii. That's what got the internet started.
ROBIN WILLIAMS

I met Nelson Mandela, and I really didn't know what to say. It was years ago at a benefit. I was...
ROBIN WILLIAMS

When Jonathan Winters died, it was like, 'Oh, man!' I knew he was frail, but I always though...
ROBIN WILLIAMS

A lot of vets like 'Good Morning Vietnam' - I get great letters from guys.
ROBIN WILLIAMS

I bought one of the first Nintendo systems and brought that home, and we were playing 'Legend of...
ROBIN WILLIAMS

I started doing comedy because that was the only stage that I could find. It was the pure idea of be...
ROBIN WILLIAMS

I like my wine like my women - ready to pass out.
ROBIN WILLIAMS

One of my favourite actors of all time, although he doesn't necessarily play villains, is Peter ...
ROBIN WILLIAMS

I think 'Dead Poets' was probably my favorite, just to get started with the idea of doing a ...
ROBIN WILLIAMS

I think it's great when stories are dark and strange and weirdly personal.
ROBIN WILLIAMS

I loved school, maybe too much, really. I was summa cum laude in high school. I was driven that way.
ROBIN WILLIAMS

Acting is different from stand-up. It gives you this ability to enter into another character, to cre...
ROBIN WILLIAMS

Reality is just a crutch for people who can't cope with drugs.
ROBIN WILLIAMS

Reality: What a concept!
ROBIN WILLIAMS

If it's the Psychic Network why do they need a phone number?
ROBIN WILLIAMS

If Heaven exists, to know that there's laughter, that would be a great thing.
ROBIN WILLIAMS

What's right is what's left if you do everything else wrong.
ROBIN WILLIAMS

Comedy can be a cathartic way to deal with personal trauma.
ROBIN WILLIAMS

The improv, sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't, but when it does, it's like open-field...
ROBIN WILLIAMS

In 'The Secret Agent,' it's basically a character that was admired by Theodore Kaczynski...
ROBIN WILLIAMS

We had gay burglars the other night. They broke in and rearranged the furniture.
ROBIN WILLIAMS

Having George W. Bush giving a lecture on business ethics is like having a leper give you a facial, ...
ROBIN WILLIAMS

My mother's idea of natural childbirth was giving birth without makeup. She was hyper-positive -...
ROBIN WILLIAMS

I was only a leading man for a minute; now I'm a character actor.
ROBIN WILLIAMS

Sometimes you have to make a movie to make money.
ROBIN WILLIAMS

Gentiles are people who eat mayonnaise for no reason.
ROBIN WILLIAMS

When the media ask George W. Bush a question, he answers, 'Can I use a lifeline?'
ROBIN WILLIAMS

You'll notice that Nancy Reagan never drinks water when Ronnie speaks.
ROBIN WILLIAMS

I don't do well with snakes and I can't dance.
ROBIN WILLIAMS

Performing comedy in San Francisco to begin with is pretty wild. You've got to - you've got ...
ROBIN WILLIAMS

I only ever play Vegas one night at a time. It's a hideous, gaudy place; it may not be the end o...
ROBIN WILLIAMS

I have an idea for a movie called 'The Walken Dead' which is about a town where, instead of ...
ROBIN WILLIAMS

A woman would never make a nuclear bomb. They would never make a weapon that kills - no, no. They...
ROBIN WILLIAMS

We've had cloning in the South for years. It's called cousins.
ROBIN WILLIAMS

Do I perform sometimes in a manic style? Yes. Am I manic all the time? No. Do I get sad? Oh yeah. Do...
ROBIN WILLIAMS

For me, comedy starts as a spew, a kind of explosion, and then you sculpt it from there, if at all. ...
ROBIN WILLIAMS

In America they really do mythologise people when they die.
ROBIN WILLIAMS

The Russians love Brooke Shields because her eyebrows remind them of Leonid Brezhnev.
ROBIN WILLIAMS

When you look at Prince Charles, don't you think that someone in the Royal family knew someone i...
ROBIN WILLIAMS

I basically started performing for my mother, going, 'Love me!' What drives you to perform i...
ROBIN WILLIAMS

I was also lucky to play for an owner, Bud Selig, who truly cared about his players. He'd call m...
ROBIN YOUNT

Bob Dylan and John Lennon and Bruce Springsteen, these are soul guys. Bruce Springsteen might not si...
ROBIN THICKE

Death is nature's way of saying, Your table's ready.
ROBIN WILLIAMS

I developed the pilot for 'Entertainment Tonight' with Jack Haley, Jr. and Al Masini, who be...
ROBIN LEACH

Burnout comes easy in the high-pressure world of television, and when the opportunity arose to move ...
ROBIN LEACH

I'd like to collaborate with Jay-Z and Mary J. Blige.
ROBIN THICKE

I don't like labels, but I do have blue eyes and I'm soulful, so what am I going to do?
ROBIN THICKE

It is something that is called MDS. It is a rare blood disorder that affects the bone marrow. I'...
ROBIN ROBERTS

There is this image of a guy in a hot tub, drinking champagne with two buxom blondes. But that is no...
ROBIN LEACH

As I have said, you have no reason to trust me, and an excellent reason not to.
ROBIN MCKINLEY

Although every organized patriarchal religion works overtime to contribute its own brand of misogyny...
ROBIN MORGAN

One might say that the true subject of the horror genre is the struggle for recognition of all that ...
ROBIN WOOD

There's something contagious about demanding freedom.
ROBIN MORGAN

Rise and rise again until lambs become lions
ROBIN HOOD

Don't accept rides from strange men, and remember that all men are as strange as hell.
ROBIN MORGAN

Cocaine is God's way of saying you're making too much money.
ROBIN WILLIAMS

It isn't until you begin to fight in your own cause that you (a) become really committed to winning,...
ROBIN MORGAN

You're only given a little spark of madness. You mustn't lose it. -Robin Williams.
ROBIN WILLIAMS

Spring is nature's way of saying, 'Let's party!'
ROBIN WILLIAMS

Carpe per diem - seize the check.
ROBIN WILLIAMS

Neil: The meek may inherit the earth, but they don't get in to Harvard.
ROBIN WILLIAMS

Freud: If it’s not one thing, it’s your mother.
ROBIN WILLIAMS

Politics: “Poli” a Latin word meaning “many”; and "tics" meaning “bloodsucking creatures�...
ROBIN WILLIAMS

God gave men both a penis and a brain, but unfortunately not enough blood supply to run both at the ...
ROBIN WILLIAMS

See, the problem is that God gives men a brain and a penis, and only enough blood to run one at a ti...
ROBIN WILLIAMS

Mr. Keating: Seize the day! Make your lives extraordinary.
ROBIN WILLIAMS

Mr. Keating: Carpe Diem! Sieze the day!
ROBIN WILLIAMS

Spring is nature's way of saying, "Let's party!"
ROBIN WILLIAMS

Ah, yes, divorce ... from the Latin word meaning to rip out a man's genitals through his wallet.
ROBIN WILLIAMS

If ballet were easy, they'd call it football
ROBIN WILLIAMS

Cocaine is God's way of telling you you're making too much money.
ROBIN WILLIAMS

Cricket is basically baseball on valium.
ROBIN WILLIAMS

If he ever wanted vengeance on me for all I did, he has it now. This is the worst thing he could do to me. Now I know how it feels to be left behind. As I left him.

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If he ever wanted vengeance on me for all I did, he has it now. This is the worst thing he could do to me. Now I know how it feels to be left behind. As I left him.

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