Assassin's Fate (The Fitz and the Fool #3)

by Robin Hobb

sipped from his cup. ‘And we call it drowning in the Skill. August

‘This is our last hunt, old wolf. And as we have always done, we go to it together.’

Just highlighting all the ways Robin Hobb makes me cry

An echo in the vast current of Skill. A brief recollection of Chade, like a perfume on a spring breeze. Dead. Gone.

Chade’s boy wept.

I wish I could be there. My heart rode with the thought. Do not worry, Fitz. I will be her grandfather until you get home.

They would stand and fight, not just for me, but because it was what they loved to do. What they had always loved to do.

‘Do it,’ he said harshly. ‘After all, he’s just a stableboy.’ He cleared his throat. ‘A stableboy who killed Duke Ellik to save Fitz’s life. One who stood beside him when Fitz faced down a queen dragon. Go, Per. Be sure he knows it’s you And when you’ve killed the guards, bring him back to us.

‘The fight isn’t over until you win,’ I said. Burrich’s words.

‘Did you love my father?’ He went as still as a cat. When he spoke it was with reservation. ‘I had a deep bond with your father. A connection I had with no one else.’ ‘Why won’t you say you loved him?’ I opened my eyes to see his face. My father had given him all his strength, and this man would not even say he had loved him? His smile was too tight, as if he were forcing a different expression to be a smile. ‘It always made him uncomfortable if I used that word.’ ‘He did not use that word very much. His love was things he did.’ ‘He never counted up the things he did for me, but he always remembered the things I did for him.’ ‘So he loved you.’ Loved you so much he left me to take you to Buckkeep.

The dragons told me that my father would be remembered as a friend to dragons and a vengeance-taker. As long as dragons flew and serpents swam, he would be remembered. They regretted that they had not been able to eat his body and preserve all his memories.

There was a private meeting with Lady Kettricken, who had taken to her bed as soon as she heard of my father’s death and had not emerged from her room since.

you cannot tell me that Kettricken didn't love Fitz in ways beyond friendship

Your mother was a good mate for Fitz. She gave him what he needed. But this is the woman I would have chosen for us.

‘Kettricken. I did not see you there.’ ‘You never did,’

‘I have some directives regarding my younger daughter, Bee. I charge you, Nettle, and you, Fool, and you, Lant and you, my lovely queen Kettricken,

Fitz would never even admit it to himself but he loved Kettricken beyond friendship too separate from Nighteyes' feelings

And we have another grandchild on the way.

I am.now just a puddle

Then I leaned forward and carefully put the kiss into the wolf. I knew it was actually his.

‘We were one thing. A whole thing. You and I and Nighteyes. I felt a strange sort of peace. As if all the parts of me were finally in one place. All the missing bits that would make me a complete … thing.’ I shook my head. ‘Words don’t reach that far.’