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

by Robin Hobb

“There’s no sense in thinking of what’s far away and what you haven’t got. It will only make you unhappy. Be content with what you can have now.”

“I learned long ago not to blame myself for evil done to me.

Children, I have found, are much more swift to accept the unusual. They admit their curiosity, you see, rather than disdaining the object that arouses it.”

there is no sense in trying to play that game with the past. Here is where we are today, and we can only make our moves from here.”

“When you can either laugh or cry, you might as well laugh,”