Assassin's Apprentice (The Farseer Trilogy, #1)

by Robin Hobb

I learned to lie very well. I do not think it was taught me accidentally.

“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.”

“When you cut pieces out of the truth to avoid looking like a fool, you end up sounding like a moron instead.

Nothing takes the heart out of a man more than the expectation of failure.

I don’t think there is anything more cruelly tedious than unremitting nervousness.

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.”

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