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 HobbKing Shrewd is expecting me, rather he isn't expecting me, and that is precisely why I must go to him now.
Robin HobbHistory is no more fixed and dead than the future. The past is no further away than the last breath you took.
Robin HobbFor, "Yes," he had sighed on his dying breath, and all knew that was the ultimate prayer one could offer to life.
Robin HobbAh, Beloved. Of all the things I must bid farewell to, you are the most difficult to lose. Forgive me that I have avoided you. Better, perhaps, that we make a space between us and become accustomed to it before fate forces that upon us.
Robin Hobb...To free humanity of time. For time is the great enslaver of us all. Time that ages us, time that limits us. Think how often you have wished to have more time for something, or wished you could go back a day and do something differently. When humanity is freed of time, old wrongs can be corrected before they are done.
Robin Hobb