Fool's Errand (Tawny Man, #1)

by Robin Hobb

Silence can ask all the questions, where the tongue is prone to ask only the wrong one.

“It doesn’t matter who a man’s father is. Your parents made a child, but it’s up to you to make the man you’ll be.”

So grief has always seemed to me, a time of waiting not for the hurt to pass, but to become accustomed to it.