“Fitz: Shall we get up tomorrow and go looking for a wild pig?
Nighteyes: I didn’t lose any wild pigs, did you?”

—  Robin Hobb, book Fool's Errand

Source: Fool's Errand

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American fiction writer (pseudonym) 1952

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