Glen Spratt > Glen's Quotes

“Death is always less painful and easier than life! You speak true. And yet we do not, day to day, choose death. Because ultimately, death is not the opposite of life, but the opposite of choice. Death is what you get when there are no choices left to make.”
― Robin Hobb, Fool's Errand

“Too late to apologize, I've already forgiven you.”
― Robin Hobb, Assassin's Apprentice

“I told you I set no limits on my love for you. I don't. Yet I have never expected you to offer me your body. It was the whole of your heart, all for myself, that I sought. Even though I've never had a right to it. For you gave it away ere ever you saw me.”
― Robin Hobb, Fool's Fate

“History is no more fixed and dead than the future. The past is no further away than the last breath you took.”
― Robin Hobb

“I thought we had lost you. I thought we'd done something worse than let you die.' His old arms were tight and strong about me.

I was kind to the old man. I did not tell him they had.”
― Robin Hobb, Assassin's Quest

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

“You seek a false comfort when you demand that I define myself for you with words. Words do not contain or define any person. A heart can, if it is willing.”
― Robin Hobb, Golden Fool

“When considering a man's motives, remember you must not measure his wheat with your bushel. He may not be using the same standard at all.”
― Robin Hobb, Assassin's Apprentice

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

“There is a dead spot in the night, that coldest, blackest time when the world has forgotten evening and dawn is not yet a promise. A time when it is far too early to arise, but so late that going to bed makes small sense.”
― Robin Hobb, Assassin's Quest

“But a living is not a life.”
― Robin Hobb, Assassin's Quest

“Men cannot grieve as dogs do. But they grieve for many years.”
― Robin Hobb, Assassin's Apprentice

“Men of passion and vision are often seen as mad.”
― Robin Hobb, Royal Assassin

“Sometimes a man doesn't know how badly he's hurt until someone else probes the wound.”
― Robin Hobb, Assassin's Quest

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

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

“His absence seemed a solid thing, a burden I must carry in addition to my grief... Yet I knew I would continue to live. Sometimes that knowledge seemed the worst part of my loss.”
― Robin Hobb, Golden Fool

“My silences he mistook for a lack of wit rather than a lack of any need to speak.”
― Robin Hobb, Assassin's Apprentice

“One can only walk so far from one's true self before the bond either snaps, or pulls one back.”
― Robin Hobb, Royal Assassin

“I never confuse the cost of something with its value”
― Robin Hobb, The Mad Ship

“The past is no further away than the last breath you took.”
― Robin Hobb, Fool's Errand

“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

“It's all connected. When you save any part of the world, you've saved the whole world. In fact, that's the only way it can be done.”
― Robin Hobb, Golden Fool

“The fight isn't over until you win it, Fitz. That's all you have to remember. No matter what the other man says.”
― Robin Hobb, Royal Assassin

“Most prisons are of our own making. A man makes his own freedom, too.”
― Robin Hobb, Assassin's Apprentice

“People are intimidated by a man who acts with no apparent regard for consequences. Behave as if you cannot be touched and no one will dare to touch you.”
― Robin Hobb, Assassin's Apprentice

“When people look most vicious, what you are seeing is not their animal side. It is the savagery that only humans can muster.”
― Robin Hobb, Fool's Fate

“If a man does not die of a wound, then it heals in some fashion, and so it is with loss. From the sharp pain of immediate berevement, both the Prince and I passed into the gray days of numb bewilderment and waiting. So grief has always seemed to me, a time of waiting not for the hurt to pass, but to become accustomed to it.”
― Robin Hobb, Fool's Errand

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

“Come, hunt with me, the invitation whispers in my heart. Leave the pain behind and let your life be your own again. There is a place where all time is now, and the choices are simple and always your own.
Wolves have no kings.”
― Robin Hobb, Royal Assassin