The Farseer Trilogy (The Farseer Trilogy, #1-3)

by Robin Hobb

“When you spring to an idea, and decide it is truth, without evidence, you blind yourself to other possibilities.

That if the offer of money could make me love, or not love, then I was truly a whore.

Why should not a mother say to herself, if I raise this child aright, if I love and care for her, she shall live a life that brings joy to those about her, and thus I have changed the world?

I have seen the end of the world, Fitz. Seen it woven as plainly as I’ve seen my birth. Oh, not in your lifetime, nor even mine. But shall we be happy, to say that we live in the dusk rather than in the full night? Shall we rejoice that we shall only suffer, while your offspring will be the ones to know the torments of the damned? Shall this be why we do not act?”

tower seldom crumbles from the bottom up,”

Regal had never been able to grasp the difference between fear and respect.