Robin Hobb

I wince to think of the price willingly paid for loving me

"I'm sorry."
He looked at me. "Someday, FitzChivalry," he warned me, "those words will not be enough. Sometimes it is easier to pull a knife out of a man than to ask him to forget words you have uttered. Even words uttered in anger."

"Forces shift. Shadows flutter. Suddenly there is a rippling in the possibilities. A reordering of the futures, as destinies multiply. All paths diverge, and diverge again."

Of all the cruel jests fate had recently played on me, I decided that awakening was the cruelest.

Of all the cruel jests fate had recently played on me, I decided that awakening was the cruelest.

You know," he observed to me, toward the end of the meal. "Your likeness to your father becomes more remarkable every year."
All of the brandy in Bearns could not have defeated the chill his words sent through me

when I am king, you will be free to marry when and where you choose. I will not do to you what was done to me."

for when an honest man cannot make a living, folk will do what they must.

But a living is not a life

But intentions are not good enough