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"Burrich," I said quietly. He paused. "No one can replace you. Thank you. For all you've done these last few months. I owe you my life. Not just that you saved me from death. But you gave me my life, and who I am. Ever since I was six. Chivalry was my father, I know. But I never met him. You've fathered me day in and day out, over a lot of years. I didn't always appreciate..."
Royal Assassin - Robin Hobb
"Why must I suffer?" I found a smile for the Fool. "Surely that is the same question that every inhabitant of Siltbay asked tonight of the fog. I suffer, my fool, because they did. Because I am king. But more, because I am a man, and I saw what happened there."
Royal Assassin - Robin Hobb
"The fight isn't over until you win it, Fitz. That's all you have to remember. No matter what the other man thinks. Or the horse."
Royal Assassin - Robin Hobb
"Murdered a dynasty," I echoed, and laughed softly. They all cared so much about these things, didn’t they? "You say it like it is an unspeakable crime, Isan. A greater evil than killing a child. But dynasties are not real. They are made up. Fiction."
The Poet Empress - Shen Tao
"I had not become so wicked in my heart that I had stopped believing people could change. If a gentle child could turn into a monster, I thought, then surely a monster could become gentle again."
The Poet Empress - Shen Tao
"It is true, he has suffered, but if everyone who suffered became monsters, the world would be overrun with them."
The Poet Empress - Shen Tao
"He wanted to become a tree. He wanted to be grass. He wanted to be the clouds and the daylight, that little ant crawling among the wet blossoms. He wanted, most of all, to become air."
The Poet Empress - Shen Tao
"Maybe it was possible to love somebody that one hated.
Maybe, buried heart-deep, I really did love him. Not the kind of love a wife shared with her husband - that was not possible, after all he’d done to me; I might have borne no scars, but my body still remembered - but the kind of love one human could not help but feel for another when they had to pry away blades to find them.
I did not know what else to call it, if not love."
The Poet Empress - Shen Tao
"They were about to kill you."
"You should have let them."
He gave me another one of his glass stares, the way he did whenever he thought I was being stupid. "I'm the only one who gets to take your life."
It might have been the most romantic thing he'd ever said to me, and I startled into bitter, self-pitying laughter.
The Poet Empress - Shen Tao
"They were about to kill you."
"You should have let them."
He gave me another one of his glass stares, the way he did whenever he thought I was being stupid. "I'm the only one who gets to take your life."
It might have been the most romantic thing he'd ever said to me, and I startled into bitter, self-pitying laughter.
The Poet Empress - Shen Tao
"A thousand people like me could die and the world would not stop turning, but breaking one person like him could break a nation."
The Poet Empress - Shen Tao
"Knives cannot be fools," Terren spat. "Swords do not know the concept of hate. A sharp enough edge does not fear being deceived, and a strong enough weapon does not need to think to win."
The Poet Empress - Shen Tao
"I felt like I was taming a tiger.
A violent, rabid tiger that wanted nothing more than to tear into my flesh. But if I kept bringing it treats, would it then begin to recognize me? Would it begin seeing me as a thing that could be trusted - even if it was powerful and did not need to trust anyone?"
The Poet Empress - Shen Tao
"The privilege of being powerful, Wei, is that I do not need to rely on trust."
The Poet Empress - Shen Tao
"You are not some lowly peasant. You are heir to the dynasty! For you, the word blood does not mean family but country. Your veins are Tensha's flowing rivers, your beating heart its capital, your flesh its mountains and fertile valleys. Do you understand?"
The Poet Empress - Shen Tao
"Hesin," she asked me once, "why are women always expected to love those who would hurt us? To take care of those who would use us, however they please, without the slightest regard for whether we lived or died?"
The Poet Empress - Shen Tao
"At first, I tried to figure him out. If there was a logic to his cruelty, I reasoned, possibly I could learn to avoid it.
But soon it became clear there was none. If I spoke to him, he hurt me. If I refused to speak, he took it as a slight and hurt me. He hated it when I acted terrified, and he hated it when I acted resentful, and he hated it when I tried to pretend I was neither and spoke kindly. My ignorance provoked his knives, as did any hint of cleverness. The days I cried, he hurt me worst of all."
The Poet Empress - Shen Tao