Fool's Errand
Robin Hobb
Top 10 Best Quotes
“Stop longing. You poison today’s ease, reaching always for tomorrow.”
“Death is not the opposite of life, but the opposite of choice.”
“Death is always less painful and easier than life! You speak true. And yet we do not, day to day, choose death. Because ultimately, death is not the opposite of life, but the opposite of choice. Death is what you get when there are no choices left to make.”
“Silence can ask all the questions, where the tongue is prone to ask only the wrong one.”
“Wait for you? Not likely. I've always had to run ahead of you and show you the way.”
“The past is no further away than the last breath you took.”
“If a man does not die of a wound, then it heals in some fashion, and so it is with loss. From the sharp pain of immediate berevement, both the Prince and I passed into the gray days of numb bewilderment and waiting. So grief has always seemed to me, a time of waiting not for the hurt to pass, but to become accustomed to it.”
“Leave off sniffing the carcass of your old life-do you enjoy unending pain? There is no shame in walking away from bones. Nor is there any special wisdom in injuring oneself over and over. What is your loyalty to that pain? To abandon it will not lessen you.”
“I 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.”
“Fitz: Shall we get up tomorrow and go looking for a wild pig? Nighteyes: I didn’t lose any wild pigs, did you?”
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Book Keywords:
fitzchivalry-farseer, today, past, present, longing, fate, pain, nighteyes, philosophy, poison, tomorrow, wild-pigs, bestfriends
