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.”

‘Never do what you can’t undo until you’ve considered well what you can’t do once you’ve done it.’ ”

But always, no matter the damage to it, the body tries to go on. And if it manages to, then the mind follows it.

Honesty can be like a boil that bursts at the most unfortunate time.

Not all change is bad. Change is seldom good or bad; it’s only change.

Prilkop, just tell me. Do I break the future?” “Oh, child. We all do. That is both the danger and the hope of life. That each of us changes the world, every day.”

did not weep. Tears would have been too small, an insult to the size of the loss I’d taken.

Vengeance took no account of innocence or right. It was the chain that bound horrific events together, that decreed that one awful act must beget another worse one that would lead to yet a third. It came to me, slowly, that this chain would never end.