The Tawny Man Trilogy Books 2 & 3 Quotes

“I considered Nighteyes’ old advice: when sleep is the only comfort you can take, take it. It will leave you better prepared for whatever might come next.”
― Robin Hobb, The Tawny Man Trilogy Books 2 & 3: The Golden Fool / Fool's Fate

“One man armed with the right word may do what an army of swordsmen cannot. Mountain proverb”
― Robin Hobb, The Tawny Man Trilogy Books 2 & 3: The Golden Fool / Fool's Fate

“The heart will flee anywhere when it is seeking comfort. I knew that and kept a rein on mine.”
― Robin Hobb, The Tawny Man Trilogy Books 2 & 3: The Golden Fool / Fool's Fate

“It was not an easy discipline to master, for it involved surrendering my own needs and interests to subservience to his. ‘Watch a mother with an infant, any kind of a mother, human or beast. There you will see this done on the simplest and most instinctive level. If one is willing to work at it, one can extend that same sort of perception to others. It is a worthwhile thing to do, for it conveys a level of understanding of one another that makes hate almost impossible. Seldom can one hate a person if one understands that person.”
― Robin Hobb, The Tawny Man Trilogy Books 2 & 3: The Golden Fool / Fool's Fate

“you map the land and draw lines across it, claiming ownership simply because you can draw a picture of it. The plants that grow and the beasts that rove, you mark as your own, claiming not only what lives today, but what might grow tomorrow, to do with as you please. Then, in your conceit and aggression, you wage wars and slay one another over the lines you have imagined on the world’s face.”
― Robin Hobb, The Tawny Man Trilogy Books 2 & 3: The Golden Fool / Fool's Fate

“we are the sum of all we have done added to the sum of all that has been done to us. There is no escaping that, not for any of us.”
― Robin Hobb, The Tawny Man Trilogy Books 2 & 3: The Golden Fool / Fool's Fate

“change proves that you are still alive. Change often measures our tolerance for folk different from ourselves. Can we accept their languages, their customs, their garments, and their foods into our own lives? If we can, then we form bonds, bonds that make wars less likely. If we cannot, if we believe that we must do things as we have always done them, then we must either fight to remain as we are, or die.”
― Robin Hobb, The Tawny Man Trilogy Books 2 & 3: The Golden Fool / Fool's Fate

“Fitz fixes a feist’s fits. Fat suffices”.”
― Robin Hobb, The Tawny Man Trilogy Books 2 & 3: The Golden Fool / Fool's Fate

“He’s a spider. A web-weaver, with lines stringing out in all directions. He sits at the centre and interprets each tug.”
― Robin Hobb, The Tawny Man Trilogy Books 2 & 3: The Golden Fool / Fool's Fate