“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”

—  Robin Hobb , book Assassin's Apprentice

Source: Assassin's Apprentice

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American fiction writer (pseudonym) 1952

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