Fool's Quest (The Fitz and The Fool, #2)

by Robin Hobb

‘I’m sixty,’ I reminded him. ‘And you started me in the trade when I was less than ten.

Chade is older than Shrewd. If Fitz is almost 10, Chiv must be mid to late 20's, making Shrewd in his mid to late 40's. If we add some years to that, it makes Chade anywhere from late 40's to mid 50's when Fitz is nearly 10. Chade = Fitz +40ish years If Fitz is 60, Chade is at around 100 years old.

What I recall is that we were one. We were not wholes blending as we passed. We were parts, finally forming a whole. You, and I, and Nighteyes. One being.

One small ferret, ever a hero in my heart.

‘My grandfather died thinking he had sent you to your death. To the end of his days, Blade believed he had betrayed you. He, I think, you might have trusted.

the happy ending is but a moment to catch one’s breath before the next disaster.

when I had called him back from the other side of death we had had a moment of profound joining. Perhaps we had never truly parted.

Kettricken took my arm. I felt her so strongly. Such a brave woman, so true and intelligent. Nighteyes had loved her so much.

We’ve shared the stuff of our beings. Just as a captain does with her liveship. Just as a dragon does with his Elderling.

the Wolf of the West, who would race to the aid of any of his subjects who called upon him.

That never happens in any future I see. Not even the one in which her hidden father leaves every one of you in bloody shreds!

Once one knows what heartless people can do, it cannot be entirely forgotten. It always remains among the possible things that can befall you.

I dream of the Wolf from the West.’

oh El and Eda, please be the thread to a trilogy yet to be written.

‘Sharpening your knife is never a waste of time.

being told something is not the same as learning it.

The Fool and I seldom lied to each other. Except when we did.