Eileen Phillips > Eileen's Quotes

“Opportunity may knock only once but temptation leans on the door bell”
― Oprah Winfrey, Oprah Winfrey Speaks: Insights from the World's Most Influential Voice

“Don’t believe what your eyes are telling you. All they show is limitation. Look with your understanding. Find out what you already know and you will see the way to fly.”
― Richard Bach, Jonathan Livingston Seagull

“In that last dance of chances

I shall partner you no more.

I shall watch another turn you

As you move across the floor.


In that last dance of chances

When I bid your life goodbye

I will hope she treats you kindly.

I will hope you learn to fly.


In that last dance of chances

When I know you'll not be mine

I will let you go with longing

And the hope that you'll be fine.


In that last dance of chances

We shall know each other's minds.

We shall part with our regrets

When the tie no longer binds.”
― Robin Hobb, Fool's Fate

“if love doesnt come first and linger after, if love cant wait and endure disappointment and seperation, then its not love.”
― Robin Hobb, Golden Fool

“I lived my grief; I slept mourning and ate sorrow and drank tears. I ignored all else.”
― Robin Hobb, Fool's Assassin

“Undeserved forgiveness. Friendship defined.”
― Robin Hobb, Fool's Assassin

“When we are children, we believe that our elders know all and that even when we cannot understand the world, they can make sense of it. Even after we are grown, in moments of fear or sorrow, we still turn instinctively to the older generation, hoping to finally learn some great hidden lesson about death and pain. Only to learn instead that the only lesson is that life goes on.”
― Robin Hobb, Fool's Assassin

“If you don’t decide what you will do with the rest of your life, someone else will decide it for you.”
― Robin Hobb, Fool's Quest