Fitz Quotes

“Hey, all the cool kids are sleeping with stuffed animals these days.”
― Shannon Messenger, Lodestar

“A school isn’t a school until Sophie tries to destroy it.”
― Shannon Messenger, Lodestar

“I thought we had lost you. I thought we'd done something worse than let you die.' His old arms were tight and strong about me.

I was kind to the old man. I did not tell him they had.”
― Robin Hobb, Assassin's Quest

“The knowledge that he had left me with no intent ever to return had come over me in tiny droplets of realization spread over the years. And each droplet of comprehension brought its own small measure of hurt...He had wished me well in finding my own fate to follow, and I never doubted his sincerity. But it had taken me years to accept that his absence in my life was a deliberate finality, an act he had chosen, a thing completed even as some part of my soul still dangled, waiting for his return.”
― Robin Hobb, Fool's Assassin

“How do you politely explain to someone that you had believed for years he was a moron as well as a Fool?
Fitz in Assassin's Apprentice”
― Robin Hobb, Assassin's Apprentice

“No. This is right. I feel it. I am the Catalyst, and I came to change all things. Prophets become warriors, dragons hunt as wolves.
Fitz in Assassin's Quest”
― Robin Hobb, Assassin's Quest

“There's something stalking us. Off to the side of the road, moving through the forest.'

Kettricken smiled.”
― Robin Hobb, Assassin's Fate

“Fitz grinned—and a girl who’d been watching him tripped over her own feet.”
― Shannon Messenger, Nightfall

“And it all started with a field trip, a giant dinosaur model, and an especially noticeable pair of teal eyes.”
― Shannon Messenger, Nightfall

“But he was also the boy who’d shown up on her class field trip and shown her where she really belonged. The one who’d let her cry on his shoulder when she had to leave her family, and who’d gone out searching for her in the middle of nowhere, just because he’d heard her voice in his head.”
― Shannon Messenger, Everblaze

“I feared my own kind more than anything the natural world could ever threaten me with.”
― Robin Hobb, Assassin's Quest

“The drug lulled her toward a dreamless oblivion, but she fought back—clinging to the one memory that could shine a tiny spot of light in the thick, inky haze. A pair of beautiful aquamarine eyes.
Fitz’s eyes. Her first friend in her new life. Her first friend ever.”
― Shannon Messenger, Keeper of the Lost Cities

“Fitz: How bad is it?
Nighteyes: Mind your own business.
Fitz: You ARE my business.
Nighteyes: Sharing pain doesn’t loosen it.
Fitz: I’m not sure about THAT.”
― Robin Hobb, Fool's Errand

“He turned away and his hands grabbed something. A tiny purple Albertosaurus, and the note she’d given him with it. If she could’ve felt her chest, her heart would’ve skipped a beat.”
― Shannon Messenger, Keeper of the Lost Cities

“I guess that makes sense. And by the way—your friends?” Amy glanced over her shoulder to take another peek at them. “Are they in a contest to see who can be the most gorgeous or something?”
Sophie had to laugh. “They might be.”
“It’s ridiculous,” Amy told her. “Especially Fitz’s family. I mean, seriously, who looks like that?”
“Only the Vackers,” Sophie assured her.”
― Shannon Messenger, Nightfall

“Fitz? What kind of name was Fitz?”
― Shannon Messenger, Keeper of the Lost Cities

“She’d spent forever trying to find him something personal, settling on a miniature Albertosaurus covered in deep violet feathers. She knew it was silly, but it reminded her of the day they met, and in the card she thanked him for showing her what dinosaurs really looked like.”
― Shannon Messenger, Keeper of the Lost Cities

“He gave a final shake of his coat. 'I go to the hunt!”
― Robin Hobb, Assassin's Fate

“And so the Wolf of the West rose from the stone! And so he will rise again if ever the folk of the Six Duchies call to him in need.”
― Robin Hobb, Assassin's Fate

“Fitz fixes fyces fitz.Fatsafices.”
― Robin Hobb

“Those were some astounding lies, cub. And the very last one the most inspired of all. You have your father's talent for it.”
― Robin Hobb, Assassin's Fate

“Would you kick her ass already?" Dick said, shoving me back toward Missy. "Come on, Stretch, man up. You do better than this! Get mad."
I nodded, rolling a dislocated shoulder back into place with a grunt and staggering back toward my opponent.
Behind me, Zeb yelled, "She tried to hurt Fitz!" He turned to Gabriel and Dick. "That'll get her mad."
Gabriel rolled his eyes. "She's been framed for murder twice over, shot in the back, her arms were set on fire, and her parents are being held hostage. You think tampered dog water is what's going to make her angry?"
"You tried to hurt my dog!" I wheezed as I lurched toward a grinning Missy.”
― Molly Harper, Nice Girls Don't Have Fangs

“You should go with him, Nighteyes. You should go with Bee.
If we end here, then I meet the end with you. As you ended with me.
How is the hunting where you are?
It will be better with you.
I'm coming to you, my brother.”
― Robin Hobb, Assassin's Fate

“His face was so ravaged, it was like looking at death itself. Except for the smooth, silvered part of it. By creeping degrees, his human hand lifted. He turned it over, showing a bloody palm. His cracked lips moved.

Beloved.

He could not say the word, but I knew it.

So did his Fool.”
― Robin Hobb, Assassin's Fate

“My dragons!' she insisted.
'She has finally found a flock to join,' he observed to me. 'Her own kind always pecked her. But the dragons have taken her in.'
...'If a flock of crows is a murder, what should we call a group of dragons?' ... 'A catastrophe of dragons.”
― Robin Hobb, Assassin's Fate

“And like a child, I'd be testing the people who loved me, pulling away from them almost for the sole reason of seeing if anyone would come after me.”
― Robin Hobb, Fool's Assassin

“He gave a final shake of his coat. I go to the hunt!”
― Robin Hobb, Assassin's Fate

“A man can die of failure, Fitz. Do you know that? Once, I told you, the fight isn't over until you've won.”
― Robin Hobb, Royal Assassin

“Doing something stupid and reckless is not a better proof of your love than doing something measured and powerful. You are no longer the boy who chased Regal's coterie through the halls of Buckkeep Castle with a bared blade. You are Prince FitzChivalry Farseer. And we will make them pay with every drop of their blood.”
― Robin Hobb, Fool's Quest

“You have no idea what that would do to my life,” I pleaded quietly.
“No. I don't,” he admitted easily, but with growing outrage. “And neither do you. You go around making these monumental decisions about what other people should know or not know about their own lives. But you don't really have any more idea how it will turn out than I do! You just do what you think is safest and then crawl around hoping no one will find out and blame you later if things go wrong!”
― Robin Hobb, Fool's Fate