Not all men are destined for greatness," I reminded him. "Are you sure, Fitz? Are you sure? What good is a life lived as if it made no difference at ….

I think that old magic draws much of its strength from that acknowledgment: that we are a part of that world..

That is the challenge Companion. To take what has happened to you and learn from it. Nothing is quite so destructive as pity, especially self-pity. N….

Silent," the carved wizardwood on his wrist breathed. "Silent as a blinded ship, floating hull-up in the sea. Silent as a scream underwater..

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..

The man who must brag for himself knows that no one else will.

Someday is someday, and maybe it will be or maybe it won't. This is a human thing, to worry about things that may or may not come to be. You can't ea….

Nothing takes the heart out of a man more than the expectation of failure..

Sometimes it seems unfair that events so old can reach forward through the years, sinking claws into one's life and twisting all that follows it. Yet….

Your future. It awaits only you, to live it and to write it. - Shaman's Crossing by Robin Hobb.

No man is so dangerous as the man who cannot decide what he fears..

When you cut pieces out of the truth to avoid looking like a fool you end up looking like a moron instead..

I feared my own kind more than anything the natural world could ever threaten me with..

I am the King's Fool. He is the King-In-Wating. Let him wait..

Besides, if there were no dragons of flesh and blood and fire, whence would come the idea for these stone carvings?.

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 ….

I began reading everyhing in the family library. Kidnapped, Treasure Island, Robinson Crusoe. And of course, if you're running out of books to read y….

Some people say 'I want to be a writer,' and some people say, 'I want to write.'.

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 wi….

You are confusing plumbing and love again..

Diplomacy is the velvet glove that cloaks the fist of power..