Royal Assassin (The Farseer Trilogy, #2)

by Robin Hobb

I hope I have plagued your dreams lately as much as you have mine.”

We did not pause to consider wisdom or morality, we did not hesitate at all. The permission we gave each other was absolute. We ventured together into that newness, and I cannot imagine a deeper joining than our shared amazement brought us. We both came whole to that night, unfettered by expectations or memories of others. I had no more right to her than she had to me. But I gave and I took and I swear I shall never regret it.

“You are so strange sometimes,” she breathed. “But I love you.”