Robin Hobb Quotes

It is a lot easier to prove that you don't love someone than it is to prove that you do, but one of the best 'proofs' I know is the desire to devote time to the person with no expectation of any sort of compensation, including gratitude, in return.

We don't love to be loved in return; we love to love.

I couldn't love a woman who inspired me to be totally disinterested. If I fell in love with a woman for an artistic reason, or from the point of view of my work, I think it would rob her of something.

If you don't love me, it does not matter, anyway I can love for both of us.

Never pretend to a love which you do not actually feel, for love is not ours to command.

That's the definition of love, that going out in spirit to a separate and other soul and being received similarly.

The true power of love is found in selfless attitudes and actions that seek the best for another person without expecting anything in return. When we act in that way, the feeling of love follows close behind.

Love is never wasted, even if it is not reciprocated.

...you showed me what love truly is just by giving yours so selflessly. I wasn't made for love. It wasn't [woven]into the fabric of my being. I didn't know what it was, what I was looking for, what I needed. I had no point of reference, no examples, nothing. Until you.

You don't even have to ask twice, you could have my heart or we could share it like the last slice.

I will love you like God, because of God, mighted by the power of God. I will stop expecting your love, demanding your love, trading for your love, gaming for your love. I will simply love. I am giving myself to you, and tomorrow I will do it again. I suppose the clock itself will wear thin its time before I am ended at this altar of dying and dying again. God risked Himself on me. I will risk myself on you. And together, we will learn to love, and perhaps then, and only then, understand this gravity that drew Him, unto us.

And yet I love him. I love him so much and so dearly, that when I sometimes think my life may be but a weary one, I am proud of it and glad of it. I am proud and glad to suffer something for him, even though it is of no service to him, and he will never know of it or care for it.

Love is not found in the market.

A mother's love for her child is like nothing else in the world. It knows no law, no pity, it dares all things and crushes down remorselessly all that stands in its path.

The mistake we make, is when we seek to be beloved, instead of loving.

Losing you is most difficult for me, but the nature of my love for you is what matters. If it distorts into half-truth, then perhaps it is better not to love you. I must keep my mind but loose you.

The thing about loving someone is that you have to love them the way they need to be loved and not the way you want to love them.

Here's something else, something important: Love is not transactional. It is not a bank account, you don't always get what you put in. Sometimes you put in so much and get very little return on your investment, at least that you can see right away.

There is nothing stronger than a heart which loves and is freely given.

It is when we ask for love less and begin giving it more that the basis of human love is revealed to us.

Love cannot be had for the asking; it comes only as a gift from the heart of another

A human’s love. I couldn’t wish anything better for him. Animals protect what they know. They protect what they are bound to, but humans…humans have a greater capacity for sacrifice for those who live in their hearts. (Aristotle)

Do not forget that true love sets no conditions; it does not calculate or complain, but simply loves.

The test of love is that it gives even when there is no expectation of a return.

-"He loved her...It was noble of him. It was beautiful." -"It was stupid.