“Don’t do what you can’t undo, until you’ve considered what you can’t do once you’ve done it.”
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Assassin's Apprentice is a fantasy novel by American writer Robin Hobb, the first in her Farseer Trilogy. It was Margaret Astrid Lindholm Ogden's first book under this pseudonym, and was published in 1995. The book was written under the working title Chivalry’s Bastard. The stories of characters found in the Farseer Trilogy continue in the Tawny Man Trilogy and the Fitz and the Fool Trilogy. Other series, The Liveship Traders and The Rain Wild Chronicles, are set in the same world and in the same timeframe, with some crossover.
“Nothing takes the heart out of a man more than the expectation of failure.”
Robin Hobb book Assassin's Apprentice
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“Very little worth knowing is taught by fear.”
Robin Hobb book Assassin's Apprentice
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“Most prisons are of our own making. A man makes his own freedom, too.”
Robin Hobb book Assassin's Apprentice
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“Utter loneliness was planted in me then, and sent its deep roots down into me.”
Robin Hobb book Assassin's Apprentice
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“Too late to apologize, I've already forgiven you.”
Robin Hobb book Assassin's Apprentice
Variant: It's too late to apologize for I have already forgiven you." -FitzChivalry Farseer
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“My silences he mistook for a lack of wit rather than a lack of any need to speak.”
Robin Hobb book Assassin's Apprentice
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“Men cannot grieve as dogs do. But they grieve for many years.”
Robin Hobb book Assassin's Apprentice
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