More on this book
Community
Kindle Notes & Highlights
“Don’t do what you can’t undo, until you’ve considered what you can’t do once you’ve done it.’
All events, no matter how earthshaking or bizarre, are diluted within moments of their occurrence by the continuance of the necessary routines of day-to-day living.
I have since come to know that many men always see another’s good fortune as a slight to themselves.
I’m yet another teacher that Shrewd has found for you. It took him a while to remember I was here, and then it took him a space to nerve himself to ask me. And it took me even longer to agree to teach you. But all that’s done now. As to what I’m to teach you…well.”
“Most prisons are of our own making. A man makes his own freedom, too.”
“When you spring to an idea, and decide it is truth, without evidence, you blind yourself to other possibilities.
That is the trick of good government. To make folk desire to live in such a way that there is no need for its intervention.”
It was an impressive display of good food abused in the name of fashionable cooking.
“When you cut pieces out of the truth to avoid looking like a fool, you end up sounding like a moron instead.
But what angered Gage enough to start the fight was that Galen said Queen Desire was more royal than Shrewd himself, for she’d Farseer blood from both her parents, and Shrewd’s was just from his father.
“Are you his catamite, that he lets you suck strength from him? Is that why he is so possessive of you?”
Nothing takes the heart out of a man more than the expectation of failure.
“FitzChivalry Farseer.” I halted, frozen by the words. I turned slowly. “It’s your name, boy. I wrote it myself, in the military log, on the day you were brought to me. Another thing I had thought you knew. Stop thinking of yourself as the bastard, FitzChivalry Farseer. And be sure that you see Shrewd today.”
When considering a man’s motives, remember you must not measure his wheat with your bushel. He may not be using the same standard at all.”
