Be very chary of telling your hoarded secrets. Many lose all power once they have been divulged.

— Robin Hobb

Boredom is vastly underrated. Boredom means that nothing is trying to kill you every day.

— Robin Hobb

But 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

But if she is alone now, it is because she chose to be alone, not someone decree if for her. Her life is hers to live, not yours to repair.

— Robin Hobb

But in my heart, when I said “my king,” I meant Verity.

— Robin Hobb

Despite my pain, I felt not the regret of an ending, but the foreboding of a beginning.

— Robin Hobb

Did you feel that?' I asked him. He smiled sadly. 'Fitz, I have never needed to touch you to feel that. It was always there. No limits.

— Robin Hobb

Do you not see how strange and wonderful that is? That all history balances on an affair of the human heart?

— Robin Hobb

Dragons don't bother with introductions.

— Robin Hobb

Everyone thinks that courage is about facing death without flinching. But almost anyone can do that. Almost anyone can hold their breath and not scream for as long as it takes to die. True courage is about facing life without flinching. I don't mean the times when the right path is hard, but glorious at the end. I'm talking about enduring the boredom, the messiness, and the inconvenience of doing what is right.

— Robin Hobb