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

by Robin Hobb

Tomorrow owes you the sum of your yesterdays. No more than that. And no less.”

There were times when taking vengeance for the dead seemed too high a price for abandoning the living.

“Don’t go where I can’t follow you. Don’t leave me behind.

If he’d been a puppy, he’d have been wriggling all over.

“Deliberate cruelty is never forgivable,”

We’re better off remembering that not all the world is made for us.

For some things, there is no forgiving or unforgiving. They are simply a crossroads, and a direction taken, whether I would or no. Someone else set my feet on that path. All I can control is every step I take after that.”

“How can I explain something that I don’t understand myself?”

but healing can be as painful as being injured.

as if grief were a heavy burden to be spread out among those who must bear it.

does life ever become simple?

Pretty did not mean kind.

Yet dragons do not forgive. And dragons do not forget.

As if vengeance ever bore anything but bitter fruit.

Those inadequate words. “Thank you.”

Change is seldom good or bad; it’s only change.

Feet remember pain.

“The fight isn’t over until you win,”

“Don’t doubt us, or we are lost.”

“I can see that this hurts you. You should fix it. You can’t make it unhappen, but you don’t have to carry around what they did to you. Don’t give them that power over you.”

“I would rather face men with knives than that circle of bitches with their needles,” I said bluntly.

And I had never been enough for anything.

“Never do a thing until you consider well what you can’t do once you’ve done it.”