Frases de Robin Hobb

“«—No todos los hombres están destinados a hacer grandes cosas —le recordé.
—¿Estás seguro, Traspié? ¿Estás seguro de eso? ¿De qué sirve vivir la vida si no ha de suponer ninguna diferencia para el devenir del mundo? Me cuesta imaginar algo más triste. […] ¿Por qué no iba a decir a su vecino el granjero que planta una semilla, esta semilla que planto hoy dará de comer a alguien algún día, y así es como yo hoy cambio el mundo?»”

“Deja de definirte por lo que no puedes hacer. ¿Por qué no piensas en lo que no has perdido?”

“¿Está en la naturaleza del mundo que todas las cosas busquen un ritmo, y en ese ritmo anhelen una especie de paz?”

“No hagas lo que no puedas deshacer, hasta que hayas considerado lo que no podrás deshacer cuando lo hayas hecho.”

“Más tarde comencé a merodear por el umbral del sueño. A veces creo que se descansa mejor en la frontera que separa la vigilia y el sueño que durmiendo. La mente erra bajo el crepúsculo de ambos estados y es capaz de desvelar las verdades que guardan tanto la luz del día como los sueños. Todo aquello que no estamos preparados para descubrir pervive en ese límite, a la espera de encontrarse con ese rincón desprotegido de la psique.”

“Oh, Traspié, Traspié, muchacho -dijo con la voz cargada de alivio-. Pensaba que te habíamos perdido. Pensaba que te habíamos hecho algo peor que dejarte morir. Sus viejos brazos eran fuertes, tensos, a mi alrededor. Fui considerado con el anciano. No le dije que era precisamente lo que habían hecho.”

“Hay un punto muerto en la noche, la hora más negra y fría, cuando el mundo se ha olvidado del atardecer y el alba no es todavía ninguna promesa. Un momento en que es demasiado pronto para levantarse, pero tan tarde que irse a la cama no tiene sentido.”

“De todas las bromas crueles que me había gastado recientemente el destino, decidí que despertar era la más cruel de todas.”

“Tomorrow owes you the sum of your yesterdays. No more than that. And no less.”

“Silence can ask all the questions, where the tongue is prone to ask only the wrong one.”

“Home is people. Not a place. If you go back there after the people are gone, then all you can see is what is not there any more.”

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

“Don’t do what you can’t undo, until you’ve considered what you can’t do once you’ve done it.”

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

“The fight isn't over until you win.”

“A woman of many talents. And intelligent, too. He'd probably have to kill her soon.”

“Stop longing. You poison today’s ease, reaching always for tomorrow.”

“Very little worth knowing is taught by fear.”

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

“Not being able to think of a reply is not the same thing as accepting another's words.”

“Death is not the opposite of life, but the opposite of choice.”

“Thinking is not always… comforting. It is always good, but not always comforting.”

“I healed. Not completely. A scar is never the same as good flesh, but it stops the bleeding.”

“Stop thinking of what you intend to do. Stop thinking of what you have just done. Then, stop thinking that you have stopped thinking of those things. Then you will find the Now, the time that stretches eternal, and is really the only time there is.”

“Anticipating pain was like enduring it twice. Why not anticipate pleasure instead?”

“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. No event in life is so terrible that one cannot rise above it.”

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

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

“Time is an unkind teacher, delivering lessons that we learn far too late for them to be useful. Years after I could have benefited from them, the insights come to me.”

“History is no more fixed and dead than the future. The past is no further away than the last breath you took.”

“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 man. I did not tell him they had.”

“When you spring to an idea, and decide it is truth, without evidence, you blind yourself to other possibilities.”

“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.”

“That is the trick of good government. To make folk desire to live in such a way that there is no need for its intervention.”

“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.”

“Wolves have no kings.”

“But a living is not a life.”