Robin Hobb

Raised by a stableman and trained in the arts of the assassin, bastard nobleman's son Fitz realizes his magical skills and finds a first test of manhood in a band of raiders and a group of murderous nobles. Reprint. K.

Assassin's Apprentice

Alina

Marshie

Is it the nature of the world that all things seek a rhythm, and in that rhythm a sort of peace?

All events, no matter how earth-shaking or bizarre, are diluted within moments of their occurrence by the continuance of the necessary routines of day-to-day living.

Jordan

There is something I have observed about skinny men. Some, like Chase, seem so preoccupied with their lives that they either forget to eat, or burn every bit of sustenance they take in the fires or their passionate fascination with life. But there is another type, one who goes about the world cadaverously, cheeks sunken, bones jutting, and one senses that he disapproves of the whole of the world that he begrudges every bit that he takes inside of himself.

i’m not even on chapter 1 yet but i’m already going to cry

Kiran Aftab

“But most of all, I thank you for offering my characters a home in your heart.” 

Jasper

His public life should have ended with his abdication; how tactless of him to draw further attention to himself by actually dying.

That would be my solution in this situation 😃

Perhaps I should save time and cut my own throat.

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