Ah, 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 HobbTHE HEIR OF NIGHT by Helen Lowe is a richly told tale of strange magic, dark treachery and conflicting loyalties, set in a well realized world.
Robin HobbIt'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 Hobbif love doesnt come first and linger after, if love cant wait and endure disappointment and seperation, then its not love.
Robin HobbHow do you politely explain to someone that you had believed for years he was a moron as well as a Fool?
Robin HobbI believed that by fixing it down in words, I could force sense from all that had happened, that effect would follow cause, and the reason for each event come clear to me. But then I returned one day, to find all my careful scribing gone to fragments of vellum lying in a trampled yard with wet snow blowing over them. I sat my horse, looking down at them, and knew that, as it always would, the past had broken free of my effort to define and understand it. History is no more fixed and dead than the future. The past is no further away than the last breath you took.
Robin Hobb