Robin Hobb - Bilingual quotes that celebrate the beauty of language, showcasing meaningful expressions in two unique perspectives.
Robin Hobb - Bilingual quotes that celebrate the beauty of language, showcasing meaningful expressions in two unique perspectives.
Robin Hobb is a renowned fantasy author best known for her immersive storytelling and complex characters. She gained widespread acclaim with her first series, the Farseer Trilogy, which introduces readers to the life of FitzChivalry Farseer, a royal bastard with unique abilities. This series sets the stage for Hobb’s intricate world-building and deep exploration of themes like loyalty, identity, and sacrifice. Hobb's writing style is characterized by rich prose and emotional depth, allowing readers to connect with the characters on a personal level. Her narratives are often slow-paced, focusing on character development and internal struggles, which draws readers into the characters’ journeys. The complexity of her plots and the interplay of various character arcs create a captivating reading experience. Over her career, Robin Hobb has expanded her universe with several interconnected series, including the Liveship Traders and the Tawny Man trilogy. Her works have received critical acclaim, solidifying her status as a significant voice in contemporary fantasy literature. Readers appreciate her ability to create profound, relatable stories that resonate with the human experience.
Robin Hobb, born Margaret Astrid Lindholm, is a celebrated author in the fantasy genre. Her works often explore deep emotional themes and the complexities of human relationships.
She is particularly known for her character-driven narratives, which feature richly developed protagonists and intricate plots.
Hobb has garnered a loyal following and has influenced many readers and writers in the fantasy community through her unique storytelling style.
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Taffy. He thinks about taffy. He thinks it would take his teeth out now, but he would eat it anyhow, if it meant eating it with her.
Mitch Albom
All our human endeavours are like that, she reflected, and it is only because we are too ignorant to realize it, or are too forgetful to remember it, that we have the confidence to build something that is meant to last.
Alexander McCall Smith
The value of money is subjective, depending on age. At the age of one, one multiplies the actual sum by 145,000, making one pound seem like 145,000 pounds to a one-year-old. At seven – Bertie's age – the multiplier is 24, so that five pounds seems like 120 pounds. At the age of twenty four, five pounds is five pounds; at forty five it is divided by 5, so that it seems like one pound and one pound seems like twenty pence. {All figures courtesy of Scottish Government Advice Leaflet: Handling your Money.}
Alexander McCall Smith
In fact, none of us knows how he ever managed to get his LLB in the first place. Maybe they're putting law degrees in cornflakes boxes these days.
Alexander McCall Smith
Look, if you say that science will eventually prove there is no God, on that I must differ. No matter how small they take it back, to a tadpole, to an atom, there is always something they can't explain, something that created it all at the end of the search.
And no matter how far they try to go the other way – to extend life, play around with the genes, clone this, clone that, live to one hundred and fifty – at some point, life is over. And then what happens? When the life comes to an end?
I shrugged.
You see?
He leaned back. He smiled.
When you come to the end, that's where God begins.
Mitch Albom
The Red Lion was a four-ale bar with a handful of lowbrowed sons of toil who looked as though they might be related to one another in ways frowned on by the Old Testament.
Sebastian Faulks
Small towns are like metronomes; with the slightest flick, the beat changes.
Mitch Albom
You say you should have died instead of me. But during my time on earth, people died instead of me, too. It happens every day. When lightning strikes a minute after you are gone, or an airplane crashes that you might have been on. When your colleague falls ill and you do not. We think such things are random. But there is a balance to it all. One withers, another grows. Birth and death are part of a whole.
Mitch Albom
we get so many lives between birth and death. A life to be a child. A life to come of age. A life to wander, to settle, to fall in love, to parent, to test our promise, to realize our mortality-and, in some lucky cases, to do something after that realization.
Mitch Albom
But an ink brush, she thinks, is a skeleton key for a prisoner's mind.
David Mitchell