Fool's Assassin (The Fitz and the Fool, #1)

by Robin Hobb

The loneliness that can never be filled by anyone except the one whose loss created the absence;

secret is only yours so long as you don’t share it. Tell it to one person, and it’s a secret no more.

‘Anything written can be read. Anything hidden can be found.’

I once knew of a minstrel who bragged of having had a thousand women, one time each. He would never know what I knew, that to have one woman a thousand times, and each time find in her a different delight is far better.