Every small, unselfish action nudges the world into a better path. An accumulation of small acts can change the world.

— Robin Hobb

Everything she sang was true. I will leave it to you whether the truth can exist with details omitted, or if those lacks make a lie of it.

— Robin Hobb

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

For he was the Fool now, all of Lord Chance and Lady Amber and Lord Golden scraped away by sorrow. He was no one's Beloved now.

— Robin Hobb

For the weakest has but to try his strength to find it, and then he shall be strong.

— Robin Hobb

Had she learned to feel again, only to have to feel this? Could any amount of love ever be worth the pain of losing it?

— Robin Hobb

Had they been dogs they would have sniffed me over and then drawn back? But humans have no such inbred courtesies.

— Robin Hobb

He gave a final shake of his coat. I go to the hunt!

— Robin Hobb

He had wished me well in finding my own fate to follow, and I never doubted his sincerity. But it had taken me years to accept that his absence in my life was a deliberate finality, an act he had chosen, a thing completed even as some part of my soul still dangled, waiting for his return. That, I think, is the shock of any relationship ending. It is realizing that what is still an ongoing relationship to someone is, for the other person, something finished and done with.

— Robin Hobb

He longed for cleanliness and tidiness: it was hard to find peace in the middle of disorder.

— Robin Hobb