Golden Fool Quotes

“if love doesnt come first and linger after, if love cant wait and endure disappointment and seperation, then its not love.”
― Robin Hobb, Golden Fool

“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 willing.”
― Robin Hobb, Golden Fool

“We are the sum of all we have done added to the sum of all that has been done to us.”
― Robin Hobb, Golden Fool

“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, Golden Fool

“His absence seemed a solid thing, a burden I must carry in addition to my grief... Yet I knew I would continue to live. Sometimes that knowledge seemed the worst part of my loss.”
― Robin Hobb, Golden Fool

“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.”
― Robin Hobb, Golden Fool

“You know what I feel for you. You have known it for years. Let us not, you and I, alone here, pretend that you don’t. You know I love you. I always have. I always will”
― Robin Hobb, Golden Fool

“To recognize you are the source of your own loneliness is not a cure for it. But it is a step toward seeing that it is not inevitable, and that such a choice is not irrevocable.”
― Robin Hobb, Golden Fool

“You always chose to be bound by who you are. Now choose to be freed by who you are.”
― Robin Hobb, Golden Fool

“Remember with your heart. Go back, go back and go back. The skies of this world were always meant to have dragons. When they are not here, humans miss them. Some never think of them, of course. But some children, from the time they are small, they look up at the blue summer sky and watch for something that never comes. Because they know. Something that was supposed to be there faded and vanished. Something that we must bring back, you and I.”
― Robin Hobb, Golden Fool

“Perhaps having the courage to find a better path is having the courage to risk making new mistakes.”
― Robin Hobb, Golden Fool

“Still I promise myself, "Next time I will do better" in the all-too-human conceit that I will always be offered a "next time.”
― Robin Hobb, Golden Fool

“One man armed with the right word may do what an army of swordsmen cannot.”
― Robin Hobb, The Golden Fool

“Strange, how being left out of a secret always feels like a betrayal of trust.”
― Robin Hobb, Golden Fool

“Silence asks the questions that are too awkward to phrase. It even asks the questions one does not know to ask.”
― Robin Hobb, Golden Fool

“How strange to be loved simply for who I was.”
― Robin Hobb, Golden Fool

“The death of Nighteyes gutted me. I walked wounded through my life in the days that followed, unaware of just how mutilated I was. I was like the man who complains of the itching of his severed leg. The itching distracts from the immense knowledge that one will forever after hobble through life.”
― Robin Hobb, Golden Fool

“Truth can well out of a man like blood from a wound, and it can be just as disconcerting to look at.”
― Robin Hobb, Golden Fool

“Love is more than bedding, boy. If love doesn't come first and linger after, if love can't wait and endure disappointment and separation, then it's not love. Love doesn't require bedding to make it true. It doesn't even demand day-to-day contact. I know this because I have known love, many kinds of love, and amongst them, I've know what I felt for you.”
― Robin Hobb, Golden Fool

“Having something explained to you does not always solve it.”
― Robin Hobb, Golden Fool

“We all perish in our last attempt to live.”
― Robin Hobb, Golden Fool

“To be part of a family, or any community, is to have duties and responsibility, to be bound by the rules of that group.”
― Robin Hobb, Golden Fool

“Few things have such sharp edges as the careless words of a boy.”
― Robin Hobb, Golden Fool

“I truly wanted to live a life in which I could make my own choices, independent of the 'duties' of my birth and position. It was only when fate granted that to me that I realized the cost of it. I could set aside my responsibilities to others and live my life as I please only when I also severed my ties to them. I could not have it both ways.”
― Robin Hobb, Golden Fool

“...some secrets beg to be betrayed. The secret of undeclared love is like that.”
― Robin Hobb, Golden Fool

“We were both smiling, in that bittersweet way one does when imagining something the heart longs for and the head would dread.”
― Robin Hobb, Golden Fool

“Have you ever suddenly realized that there was someone you loved, but presently did not like very much?”
― Robin Hobb, Golden Fool

“...You won't even see what is put right on the table before you. Men. If it was raining soup you'd be out there with a fork.”
― Robin Hobb, Golden Fool

“Trust had. But I had broken that, like a child who takes something apart to see how it works and ends up with a handful of pieces. Perhaps he could not be the Fool again, any more than I could go back to being Burrich’s stable boy. Perhaps our relationship had changed too profoundly for us to relate as Fitz and the Fool. Perhaps Tom Badgerlock and Lord Golden were all that was left to us.”
― Robin Hobb, Golden Fool

“There are few things so tender as a man's dignity.”
― Robin Hobb, Golden Fool