Assassin's Apprentice #1 Quotes

“Boy," he said, and the gentleness in his voice startled me into meeting his eyes. "I can teach you even if you hate me, or if you despise the lessons. I can teach you if you are bored, or lazy or stupid. But I can't teach you if you're afraid to speak to me. At least, not the way I want to teach you. And I can't teach you if you decide this is something you'd rather not learn. But you have to tell me. You've learned to guard your thoughts so well, you're almost afraid to let yourself know what they are. But try speaking them aloud, now, to me. You won't be punished.”
― Robin Hobb, Assassin's Apprentice #1

“You should remember it in every situation, not just this one – learning is never wrong.”
― Robin Hobb, Assassin's Apprentice, Assassin's Apprentice #1

“I'm here because I was told to make myself available to you - in the mornings, for as long as you wanted me."
That was a careful rephrasing. What King Shrewd had actually said to me was, "Go to her chambers each morning and do whatever it is she thinks you ought to be doing so she leaves me alone. And keep doing it until she is as weary of you as I am of her." His bluntness had astonished me, for I had never seen him as beleaguered as that day.”
― Robin Hobb, Assassin's Apprentice #1

“They're demanding gold, lots of it, or they'll return the hostages to the village."
"Don't you mean they'll kill them if they don't get the gold?"
“No.” Chade shook his head angrily, a bear bothered by bees. “No, the message was quite clear. If the gold is paid, they’ll kill them. If not, they’ll release them.”
― Robin Hobb, Assassin's Apprentice #1

“Sometimes I get tired of doing the hard things”
― Robin Hobb, Assassin's Apprentice #1

“Todos los acontecimientos, por extraordinarios o sobrecogedores que sean, se diluyen a los pocos instantes de haber ocurrido en la continuidad de la rutina necesaria de la vida diaria.”
― Robin Hobb, Assassin's Apprentice #1

“Por un breve espacio de tiempo fui feliz y, don aún más preciado, supe que lo era.”
― Robin Hobb, Assassin's Apprentice #1

“Sometimes the hardest person to forgive is yourself”
― Robin Hobb, Assassin's Apprentice #1