The Farseer Trilogy Quotes

“A message is not delivered until it is understood.”
― Robin Hobb, The Farseer Trilogy

“Live with it. Many folk have to live with worse. Most of the time you’re fine. You’re not blind. You’re not paralyzed. You’ve your wits, still. Stop defining yourself by what you can’t do. Why don’t you consider what you didn’t lose?”
― Robin Hobb, The Farseer Trilogy

“Fool, there is no sense in trying to play that game with the past. Here is where we are today, and we can only make our moves from here.”
― Robin Hobb, The Farseer Trilogy

“we are two old men, who have grown old together. Sometimes that is a greater closeness. We have come through time to your day and age. We can talk together, quietly, and share memories of a time that exists no more. I can tell you how it was, but it is not the same. It is like being two foreigners, trapped in a land we have come to, unable to return to our own, and having only each other to confirm the reality of the place we once lived.”
― Robin Hobb, The Farseer Trilogy

“Like so much farting from your ass,”
― Robin Hobb, The Complete Farseer Trilogy

“There isn’t much in a man’s head,’ he told me, ‘that can’t be cured by working and taking care of something else.”
― Robin Hobb, The Complete Farseer Trilogy

“Many men hope that by saying a thing they can make it so,” Chade said neutrally. “Even when they must know better,”
― Robin Hobb, The Farseer Trilogy

“My life has become too heavy with purpose. I cannot remember the last time I did something simply because I wanted to do it.”
― Robin Hobb, The Farseer Trilogy

“The fight isn’t over until you win it, Fitz. That’s all you have to remember. No matter what the other man thinks. Or the horse.”
― Robin Hobb, The Farseer Trilogy

“A tower seldom crumbles from the bottom up,”
― Robin Hobb, The Farseer Trilogy

“But for here, for now, just between us two, and for no other reason save I am me and you are you, I tell you this. I am glad, glad that you are alive. To see you take breath puts the breath back in my lungs. If there must be another my fate is twined around, I am glad it is you.” He leaned forward then and for an instant pressed his brow to mine.”
― Robin Hobb, The Farseer Trilogy

“At fifteen years old, an age when most were coming into their full strength, I could no longer trust my body to perform the simplest task. It was damaged, and I rejected it fiercely. I felt savagely vindictive toward the flesh and bone that enclosed me, and wished for some way to express my raging disappointment. Why couldn’t I heal? Why hadn’t I recovered?”
― Robin Hobb, The Farseer Trilogy

“It’s not the kind of work a man does that says he can be proud or not. It’s how he does it. Be proud of yourself.”
― Robin Hobb, The Complete Farseer Trilogy

“by all the lies I had ever spoken and all the truths I had made into lies by leaving them unspoken.”
― Robin Hobb, The Complete Farseer Trilogy

“Know your heart before you do, Fitz,” he added. “If you’ve nothing to offer her, let her go. Are you crippled? Only if you decide so. But if you’re determined that you’re a cripple now, then perhaps you’ve no right to go and seek her out.”
― Robin Hobb, The Farseer Trilogy

“Justice. There’s a thing we shall ever thirst after, and ever be parched. No. We content ourselves with law.”
― Robin Hobb, The Farseer Trilogy

“A man hurried toward me, face shrouded in his hood against the wind. He glanced up and our eyes met. He blanched and turned aside, to hurry back the way he had come. Well, and so he might. I felt my anger building to an unbearable heat. The wind whipped at my hair and sought to chill me, but I only strode faster, and felt the strength of my hatred grow hotter. It lured me and I followed it like the scent of fresh blood.”
― Robin Hobb, The Farseer Trilogy

“forgiven,’ she said quietly to herself. She sounded ill with it. With an oddly gentle finality, she added, ‘You”
― Robin Hobb, The Complete Farseer Trilogy

“Sometimes I wonder about that grip. The hand was hard and rough, trapping mine within it. And yet it was warm, and not unkind, as it held mine. Only firm. It did not let me slip on the icy streets, but it did not let me escape my fate, either.”
― Robin Hobb, The Complete Farseer Trilogy