Nighteyes Quotes

“Wait for you? Not likely. I've always had to run ahead of you and show you the way.”
― Robin Hobb, Fool's Errand

“We are pack!”
― Robin Hobb, Royal Assassin

“There's something stalking us. Off to the side of the road, moving through the forest.'

Kettricken smiled.”
― Robin Hobb, Assassin's Fate

“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.”
― Robin Hobb, Fool's Errand

“We are as we are. How can you claim to know what life I was meant to lead, let alone threaten to force me into it? All your quibbling is nonsense. As well forbid your nose to snuff, or your ears to hear. We are as we do.”
― Robin Hobb

“And so the Wolf of the West rose from the stone! And so he will rise again if ever the folk of the Six Duchies call to him in need.”
― Robin Hobb, Assassin's Fate

“He gave a final shake of his coat. 'I go to the hunt!”
― Robin Hobb, Assassin's Fate

“Little Brother, do not treat me as if I am already dead, or dying. If you see me that way, then I would rather truly be dead. You steal the now of my life away, when you constantly fear that tomorrow will bring my death. Your fears clutch cold at me and snatch all my pleasure in the day's warmth from me.”
― Robin Hobb, Fool's Errand

“We are whole”
― Robin Hobb, Fool's Errand

“Those were some astounding lies, cub. And the very last one the most inspired of all. You have your father's talent for it.”
― Robin Hobb, Assassin's Fate

“His face was so ravaged, it was like looking at death itself. Except for the smooth, silvered part of it. By creeping degrees, his human hand lifted. He turned it over, showing a bloody palm. His cracked lips moved.

Beloved.

He could not say the word, but I knew it.

So did his Fool.”
― Robin Hobb, Assassin's Fate

“You should go with him, Nighteyes. You should go with Bee.
If we end here, then I meet the end with you. As you ended with me.
How is the hunting where you are?
It will be better with you.
I'm coming to you, my brother.”
― Robin Hobb, Assassin's Fate

“You are ill?

No. Just Stupid.

Ah. Nothing new there. Well, you haven't died from that so far.”
― Robin Hobb, Fool's Errand

“Dying is boring, Nighteyes observed.”
― Robin Hobb, Assassin's Fate

“Make up your mind. Is Death a friend? Then go joyfully to hunt with it, as I did. If it's an enemy, then fight it. But don't sag here like a wounded cow waiting for predators to finish it off. You are not prey, nor I! If we must die, let us die as wolves!”
― Robin Hobb, Assassin's Fate

“Your mother was a good mate for Fitz. She gave him what he needed. But this is the woman I would have chosen for us.”
― Robin Hobb, Assassin's Fate

“He gave a final shake of his coat. I go to the hunt!”
― Robin Hobb, Assassin's Fate

“Why do you chop your life into bits and give the bits names? Hours, days. It is like a rabbit. If I kill a rabit, I eat a rabbit. When you have a rabbit, you chop it up and call it bones and meat and fur and guts. And so you never have enough.”
― Robin Hobb, Assassin's Quest

“Somewhere in the back of my mind, Nighteyes was frantic. 'Poisoned. That water is poisoned.' I couldn't frame a thought to reassure him.”
― Robin Hobb, Royal Assassin