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“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.”
― Robin Hobb, Fool's Fate

“Don't go mooning after the stars, when the wide sea is all around you. It's a sky of its own, you know.”
― Robin Hobb, Ship of Destiny

“Wolves have no kings.”
― Robin Hobb, Royal Assassin

“Don’t do what you can’t undo, until you’ve considered what you can’t do once you’ve done it.”
― Robin Hobb, Assassin's Apprentice

“I cannot imagine a god who hates anything that is love, any way we find to take tender care of each other. I want you to find that same love, and I never want you to hate yourself for any love that is in you.”
― Kiersten White, Now I Rise

“Time, the moon, arguments, and, most of all, coins. All good things are circular.”
― Kiersten White, Now I Rise

“Hold hands with the devil until you are both over the bridge.
Or kill the devil and burn the bridge so no one can get to you.”
― Kiersten White, Now I Rise

“I do not know how to live in a world where everyone is right and everyone is wrong. Constantine was a good man, and he was also a fool who threw away the lives of his people. I have loved Mehmed with everything I am since I was a child, and I have longed to enter this city triumphant with him. But now that we are here, I cannot look at him without hearing the cries of the dying, without seeing the blood on my hands. Nazira and I—we ate and dreamed and walked and bled with these people. And now they are gone, and my people are here, but I do not know who I am anymore.”
― Kiersten White, Now I Rise

“Her spine was steel. Her heart was armor. Her eyes were fire.”
― Kiersten White, And I Darken

“Souls and thrones are irreconcilable.”
― Kiersten White, And I Darken

“And so she cut out her heart and offered it as a sacrifice. She would pay whatever price her mother Wallachia demanded.
“Make me prince,” she said without feeling.”
― Kiersten White, And I Darken

“The art of diplomacy is the luck of knowing more of your rival's secrets than he knows of yours.”
― Robin Hobb, Assassin's Apprentice

“The fight isn't over until you win.”
― Robin Hobb, Royal Assassin

“No man is so dangerous as the man who cannot decide what he fears.”
― Robin Hobb, Royal Assassin

“Did you see how she stood and faced them down? I demanded with pride. A most excellent bitch, Nighteyes agreed.”
― Robin Hobb, Assassin's Quest

“Tomorrow owes you the sum of your yesterdays. No more than that. And no less.”
― Robin Hobb, The Mad Ship

“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.”
― Robin Hobb, The Mad Ship

“The wise man takes the shortest path to peace with himself.’ Acceptance of what is, that is the shortest path.”
― Robin Hobb, Mad Ship

“Look forward, not back. Correct your course and go on. You can't undo yesterday's journey.”
― Robin Hobb, The Mad Ship

“For the weakest has but to try his strength to find it, and then he shall be strong.”
― Robin Hobb, Ship of Magic

“As long as you believe it is impossible, you close your mind to understanding it.”
― Robin Hobb, Ship of Magic

“Refuse the anxiety. When you borrow trouble against what might be, you neglect the moment you have now to enjoy. The man who worries about what will next be happening to him loses this moment in dread of the next, and poisons the next with pre-judgment.”
― Robin Hobb, Ship of Magic

“When you fear to fail, you fear something that has not happened yet. You predict your own failure, and by inaction, lock yourself into it.”
― Robin Hobb, Ship of Destiny

“Stop longing. You poison today’s ease, reaching always for tomorrow.”
― Robin Hobb, Fool's Errand

“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

“What a man can take with a sword, a woman can give by her flesh alone. Life.”
― Robin Hobb, Fool's Fate

“when you let go and follow your fate instead of trying to twist your life around and master it, a man finds that happiness follows him.”
― Robin Hobb, Fool's Fate

“A wise old man taught me that diplomacy is the velvet glove that cloaks the fist of power. Persuasion, not force, works best and lasts longest.”
― Robin Hobb, Fool's Fate

“Time is an unkind teacher, delivering lessons that we learn far too late for them to be useful. Years after I could have benefited from them, the insights come to me.”
― Robin Hobb, Fool's Assassin

“I will always take your part, Bee. Right or wrong. That is why you must always take care to be right, lest you make your father a fool.”
― Robin Hobb, Fool's Assassin