Fool's Assassin (The Fitz and the Fool, #1)

by Robin Hobb

Time is an unkind teacher, delivering lessons that we learn far too late for them to be useful.

A secret is only yours so long as you don’t share it. Tell it to one person, and it’s a secret no more.

I once knew of a minstrel who bragged of having had a thousand women, one time each. He would never know what I knew, that to have one woman a thousand times, and each time find in her a different delight, is far better.

You might be surprised to find that facing life can be much harder than facing death.”

The strangler, the suffocator, the exsanguinator may all claim that their victims did not suffer. They lie. All they may truly say is that the victim’s suffering was invisible to them. And no one returns to say they were wrong.

We live in our bodies. An assault on that outside fortress of the mind leaves scars that may not show, but never heal.

It was better to leave the space empty of words than to choose the wrong ones.

Undeserved forgiveness. Friendship defined.