Robin Hobb Quotes

I'm homesick all the time. I miss my animals. I miss my family. I miss my friends.

Loneliness surrounds me without your arms around me.

Now we're like planets, holding to each other from a great distance. [...] Now we're hundreds of miles apart, our short arms keep us lonely, no one hears what's in my head. [...] It's March, even the birds don't know what to do with themselves.

I squeeze my eyes shut and try to reach for him across the hundreds and hundreds of miles, to send my thoughts into his mind, to let him know he is not alone. But he is. And I can't help him.

When you are alone - at sea, in the polar dark - an absence can keep you alive. The one you love maintains your mind. But when she's merely across the city, this is an absence that eats you to the bone.

I pity my brother Ferdinand, knowing by my own feelings how sad a thing it is to live apart from one's family.

I miss my family all the time.

I miss my family every single day.

They had stopped now and he gave a glance up at the sky, through the trees, as though to see how much time was left. Amber, watching him, was suddenly struck with panic. Now he was going--out again into that great world with its bustle and noise and excitement--and she must stay here. She had a terrible new feeling of loneliness, as if she stood in some solitary corner at a party where she was the only stranger. Those places he had seen, she would never see; those fine things he had done, she would never do. But worst of all she would never see him again.

I love no one but you, I have discovered, but you are far away and I am here alone.

I watch her blond head until it disappears around the bend, and I feel bare, like there's nothing left to protect me against pain. Her absence stings worst of all.

…I can't help seeing that you are very lonely, and sometimes there is a hungry look in your eyes that goes to my heart.

You said you're going far away," Tamaru said. "How far away are we talking about?" "It's a distance that can't be measured." "Like the distance that separates one person's heart from another's.

If I decided to send this to you, where would I send it? When I think of writing the whole address on the envelope I am paralyzed. It's too painful to think of you in the same place with your life going on in the same way, minus me. And to think of you not there, you somewhere else but I don't know where that is, is worse.

The lifetime we've left behind with strangers Promises and lies both have their dangers. I just can't be wrong enough and I can't hide for long enough So far away, but I still feel your pain.

Absence makes the heart grow fonder, but it sure makes the rest of you lonely.

I'm not alone, but I am lonely without you.

the lonliest sound in the world is other people making love.

But after a moment a sense of waste and ruin overcame him. There they were, close together and safe and shut in; yet so chained to their separate destinies that they might as well been half the world apart.

I had been out there long enough. I had not seen my family for four years.

Being sent away to school was no different from my biological mother giving me away.

I was separated from my wife at the time. A lot of people think I wrote it about prison.

Everything else outside me seems far, far away.

I felt like I might as well have been living in another part of the solar system.

I am so homesick every day of the week.