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

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

1 " Perhaps there can be no thanks nor any blame, but only recognition of the forces that brought us and bound us to our inevitable fates. "

― Robin Hobb , Assassin's Quest (Farseer Trilogy, #3)

2 " One does not have to be Witted to know the companionship of a beast, and to know that the friendship of an animal is every bit as rich and complicated as that of a man or woman. "

― Robin Hobb , Assassin's Quest (Farseer Trilogy, #3)

3 " There is a dead spot in the night, that coldest, blackest time when the world has forgotten evening and dawn is not yet a promise. A time when it is far too early to arise, but so late that going to bed makes small sense. "

― Robin Hobb , Assassin's Quest (Farseer Trilogy, #3)

4 " I think I made a better boy than I do a man, I admitted ruefully to the wolf.
Why not wait until you've been at it a bit longer and then decide? he suggested. "

― Robin Hobb , Assassin's Quest (Farseer Trilogy, #3)

5 " I feared my own kind more than anything the natural world could ever threaten me with. "

― Robin Hobb , Assassin's Quest (Farseer Trilogy, #3)

6 " Besides, if there were no dragons of flesh and blood and fire, whence would come the idea for these stone carvings? "

― Robin Hobb , Assassin's Quest (Farseer Trilogy, #3)

7 " That is one thing that in all my years among your folk I have never become accustomed to. The great importance that you attach to what gender one is. "

― Robin Hobb , Assassin's Quest (Farseer Trilogy, #3)

8 " I should live each day as if it were significant, as if everyday the fate of the world depended on my action. "

― Robin Hobb , Assassin's Quest (Farseer Trilogy, #3)

9 " They regarded our passage not at all, and by the afternoon I felt no more significant than an ant. I had never thought to be disdained by a tree. "

― Robin Hobb , Assassin's Quest (Farseer Trilogy, #3)

10 " Not being able to think of a reply is not the same thing as accepting another's words. "

― Robin Hobb , Assassin's Quest (Farseer Trilogy, #3)

11 " I healed. Not completely. A scar is never the same as good flesh, but it stops the bleeding. "

― Robin Hobb , Assassin's Quest (Farseer Trilogy, #3)

12 " But a living is not a life. "

― Robin Hobb , Assassin's Quest (Farseer Trilogy, #3)

13 " Someday is someday, and maybe it will be or maybe it won't. This is a human thing, to worry about things that may or may not come to be. You can't eat meat until you've killed it. "

― Robin Hobb , Assassin's Quest (Farseer Trilogy, #3)

14 " Sometimes a man doesn't know how badly he's hurt until someone else probes the wound. "

― Robin Hobb , Assassin's Quest (Farseer Trilogy, #3)

15 " ...To free humanity of time. For time is the great enslaver of us all. Time that ages us, time that limits us. Think how often you have wished to have more time for something, or wished you could go back a day and do something differently. When humanity is freed of time, old wrongs can be corrected before they are done. "

― Robin Hobb , Assassin's Quest (Farseer Trilogy, #3)

16 " If a minstrel must embroider the truth to help us recall it fully, then let her, and let no one say she has lied. Truth is often much larger than facts. "

― Robin Hobb , Assassin's Quest (Farseer Trilogy, #3)

17 " ...sometimes it only makes one more lonely to know that somewhere else, one's friends and family are well. "

― Robin Hobb , Assassin's Quest (Farseer Trilogy, #3)

18 " You will live to love again. You know you have lost your springtime girl, your Molly on the beach with the wind in her brown hair and red cloak. You have been gone too long from her, and too much has befallen you both. And what you loved, what both of you truly loved, was not each other. It was the time of your life. It was the spring of your years, and life running strong in you, and war on your doorstep and your strong, perfect bodies. Look back, in truth. You will find you recall fully as many quarrels and tears as you do lovemaking and kisses. Fitz. Be wise. Let her go, and keep those memories intact. Save what you can of her, and let her keep what she can of the wild and daring boy she loved. Because both he and that merry little miss are no more than memories anymore." She shook her head. "No more than memories. "

― Robin Hobb , Assassin's Quest (Farseer Trilogy, #3)

19 " Somewhere inside me, a madman raged in his cell, but I chose not to know of that. "

― Robin Hobb , Assassin's Quest (Farseer Trilogy, #3)

20 " I was the Fool and the Fool was me. He was the Catalyst and so was I. We were two halves of a whole, sundered and come together again. For an instant I knew him in his entirety, complete and magical, and then he was pulling apart from me, laughing, a bubble inside me, separate and unknowable, yet joined to me. "You do love me !" I was incredulous. He had never truly believed it before. "Before, it was words. I always feared it war born of pity. But you are truly my friend. This is knowing. This is feeling what you feel for me. So this is the Skill". For a moment he reveled in simple recognition. "

― Robin Hobb , Assassin's Quest (Farseer Trilogy, #3)