Blood of Dragons Quotes

“Perhaps once one realised how deeply one could bond with a creature as foreign as a dragon, all forms of human love seemed more acceptable.”
― Robin Hobb, Blood of Dragons

“Humans could never accept the world as it was and live in it. They were always breaking it and living amongst the shattered pieces.”
― Robin Hobb, Blood of Dragons

“Axes bit wood into pieces and hammers nailed it back together. Humans could never accept the world as it was and live in it. They were always breaking it and living amongst the shattered pieces.”
― Robin Hobb, Blood of Dragons

“He thought perhaps it was a woman's way, to come out of such a storm of emotion and pain as if she were a ship emerging onto calm seas. She had seemed, not at peace, but emptied of sorrow. As if she had run out of that particular emotion and no other one arose to take its place.”
― Robin Hobb, Blood of Dragons

“A man’s deep friendships were the most important thing he could possess. Things can be broken, or lost. All a man can keep for certain are the things in his mind and heart.”
― Robin Hobb, Blood of Dragons

“Dragons. A sky full of dragons.”
― Robin Hobb, Blood of Dragons

“Dawn," Thymara scoffed. "I think the dragons meant, "After we wake up and when we feel like it.”
― Robin Hobb, Blood of Dragons

“Ten times dead was very dead indeed.”
― Robin Hobb, Blood of Dragons

“It is hard for loneliness to gaze on happiness.”
― Robin Hobb, Blood of Dragons

“Today! Today! Tomorrow begins today!”
― Robin Hobb, Blood of Dragons

“There can be much more to a decision than you can know at this stage of your life.”
― Robin Hobb, Blood of Dragons

“Sometimes it seems worrying is something I feel like I have to do, that maybe worrying about them actually keeps them alive and real”
― Robin Hobb, Blood of Dragons

“She closed her mouth. The abruptness of the kiss and Tats’s assumption that something had just changed between them took her breath away. She should have pushed him away.”
― Robin Hobb, Blood of Dragons

“They do as we do, my dear. They take what joy they may find in life as they can. As you well know that Skelly has run off to do tonight, also. The shadows of harsh times creep over us. For in a battle between dragons and men, my love, it is not only the Elderlings who must decide where they stand, but you and me as well.”
― Robin Hobb, Blood of Dragons

“Girls think strangely,”
― Robin Hobb, Blood of Dragons

“He has had his wish. He will not bow his head.”
― Robin Hobb, Blood of Dragons

“GRIGSBY: Ship’s cat. Orange and insouciant.”
― Robin Hobb, Blood of Dragons

“Words came in a whisper. ‘Now is all we really have, isn’t it?”
― Robin Hobb, Blood of Dragons

“But worst of all is, while you are swimming in memories, what are you not doing here? What experiences are you missing, what chances pass you by? A year from now, what will you say about these seasons, what will you remember?”
― Robin Hobb, Blood of Dragons

“Tears were running down her cheeks but a smile trembled on her lips. 'We will still die together." With a shaking hand, she reached for the teapot. 'Will you have a last cup of tea with me?'
He turned his gaze on her. An odd calmness was welling up in him. 'I would rather have a kiss. My first and last, I think.'
'Your first kiss?'
He laughed shakily. 'My circumstances have not lent themselves to the giving or receiving of kisses.'
She blinked and the tears spilled faster. 'For me, also.' She leaned a little closer to him and then stopped.
He looked at her. She had closed her eyes. Her hair was sleek, her skin like cream, her lips pink. Her first kiss would come from a scaled dragon-man. He leaned in and found her mouth with his. He kissed her softly, unsure of how it was done, expecting her to pull away in revulsion. Instead, when he leaned back, she was smiling through her tears.
'To be touched by a man, with gentleness,' she said, as if that wonder were so great, it dispelled the circling dragons.”
― Robin Hobb, Blood of Dragons

“Humans could never accept the world as it was and live in it. They were always breaking it and living among the shattered pieces.”
― Robin Hobb, Blood of Dragons

“He said that the longer life is, the more important it is to keep your friends, to not have quarrels that can be avoided.” His smile faded a bit, and for a time he looked troubled. “He said that, as a soldier, he had learned that a man’s deep friendships were the most important thing he could possess. Things can be broken, or lost. All a man can keep for certain are the things in his mind and heart.”
― Robin Hobb, Blood of Dragons

“They were petty and selfish."
"They were miserable and hungry and helpless. I don't think I've ever met anyone who was miserable, hungry and helpless who was not also petty and selfish. The situation brings out the worst in everyone.”
― Robin Hobb, Blood of Dragons

“For a moment, she teetered on accepting that. A man who loved her: what more did a woman need from life? Then she gritted her teeth as if she were going to tear a bandage from a partially healed wound.
No, It wasn't enough. Not for her.
It was time to put an end to all pretences. Time to be done with that life. Time to stop telling herself that if and when Leftrin returned and said he loved her, all would be well. What of her could he love? When all was stripped away, what part of her was real and worthy of his love? What of person would cling to the hope that someone else would return to give meaning to her life? What sort of quivering parasite needed someone else to validate her existence?”
― Robin Hobb, Blood of Dragons

“a man who bears himself with authority will often have authority ceded to him.”
― Robin Hobb, Blood of Dragons

“She could change. She wasn’t chained to her past. She could become someone who wasn’t merely a product of what others had done to her. It wasn’t too late.”
― Robin Hobb, Blood of Dragons

“We are marching toward death as soon as we are born. The only hope a man has is that his family line will remain, that his sons will go forward to father more sons, and that his name will be remembered by them.”
― Robin Hobb, Blood of Dragons

“The man’s arrogance knows no bounds. No matter what anyone says or does to him, he sees the world only as it relates to him and what he wants. You haven’t truly seen how he is. Any situation, he always finds a way to turn to his advantage. He will find some sort of profit from this. Some advantage for himself. Nothing else has ever mattered to him.”
― Robin Hobb, Blood of Dragons

“He spoke so quickly, built his logic so fast that by the time she’d seen the fault of his reasoning in one thought, he was ten thoughts away from it. His voice was low and reasonable, but she felt battered by his words.”
― Robin Hobb, Blood of Dragons

“That sounds so selfish!” “Does it? Isn’t it what humans have done for generations? We claim the land as ours and turn it to our purposes. We change the channels of rivers and the face of the land so that we can travel by boat or grow a crop or graze cattle. And we think it only natural that we should shape the whole world to be comfortable and yielding for humankind.”
― Robin Hobb, Blood of Dragons