Robin Hobb - Assassin's Apprentice (1995)

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Locked into loneliness were we two and looking at one another every evening we each saw the one we blamed for it.

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I wonder if I can write this history, or if on every page there will be some sneaking show of a bitterness I thought long dead. I think myself cured of all spite, but when I touch pen to paper, the hurt of a boy bleeds out with the sea-spawned ink, until I suspect each carefully formed black letter scabs over some ancient scarlet wound.

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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

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Nothing takes the heart out of a man more than the expectation of failure.

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That is the trick of good government. To make folk desire to live in such a way that there is no need for its intervention.

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When you spring to an idea, and decide it is truth, without evidence, you blind yourself to other possibilities.

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If I had a dog that was sick as often as you are, I'd put it down," he observed kindly.

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Learning is never wrong. Even learning how to kill isn't wrong. Or right. It's just a thing to learn, a thing I can teach you. That's all.

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When you cut pieces out of the truth to avoid looking like a fool you end up looking like a moron instead.

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Don't do what you can't undo, until you've considered what you can't do once you've done it.

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One had a knife. But I had a staff and was trained to use it.

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Most prisons are of our own making. A man makes his own freedom, too.

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