Assassin's Quest (The Farseer Trilogy, #3)

by Robin Hobb

I see her, I know her. And she knew you, through and through. Lightning and thunder, your mother called you, for while your temper flashed and was gone, Gull could carry a grudge for weeks. But not against you, Kestrel. Never against you, and not for years. She loved you, more than either of you loved Stanchion. As you loved her. And she would have forgiven you. She would never have wished this on you. I…don’t know. Yes, you do. Look at her. Look at you. Forgive yourself. And let the part of her within you live again. Let yourself live again. She is within me? Most certainly. I see her, I feel her. It must be so. What do you feel? Cautiously. Only love. See for yourself. I took her deep inside her mind, to the places and memories she had denied to herself. It was not the burn-walls her coterie had imposed on her that had hurt her most. It was the ones she had put up between herself and the memory of what she had lost in a moment of fury.