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 is no going back to do a thing or not do a thing. There is only today. Today you must resolve to live. Each time you are given a choice, you must do the thing that will keep you alive and unhurt. Regrets are useless.

“Don’t do what you can’t undo, until you’ve considered well what you can’t do once you’ve done it.”

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.”

“It is worse than useless to do things halfway, Bee. For then you think the work is done, but someone must come behind you later to do it all over again. Even if you must work much harder and get less done, it is better to do the whole task the first time.”

“Vindeliar told me he could feel when he was on the true Path. Well, I feel mine now. It feels right, Prilkop.” “So many things do when they are the things we want to do.”

The problem is not that we forget the past. It is that we recall it too well. Children recall wrongs that enemies did to their grandfathers, and blame the granddaughters of the old enemies. Children are not born with memories of who insulted their mother or slew their grandfather or stole their land. Those hates are bequeathed to them, taught them, breathed into them. If adults didn’t tell children of their hereditary hates, perhaps we would do better.

“No one deserves to die like that. But very little of what happens to us in life is what we deserve.”

“You are all I have left of him now.” I spoke very quietly. “Then you have nothing at all.”

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.”

‘Don’t do what you can’t undo, until you’ve considered what you can’t do once you’ve done it.’