Robin

“She promised herself that from now on she would try to sit as close to Neal as possible. She could not kick someone eight chairs away.”
― Tamora Pierce, First Test

“Grown-ups don't look like grown-ups on the inside either. Outside, they're big and thoughtless and they always know what they're doing. Inside, they look just like they always have. Like they did when they were your age. Truth is, there aren't any grown-ups. Not one, in the whole wide world.”
― Neil Gaiman, The Ocean at the End of the Lane

“Death is not the opposite of life, but the opposite of choice.”
― Robin Hobb, Fool's Errand

“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.”
― Robin Hobb, Fool's Fate