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Assassin's Quest

Name: Assassin's Quest
Author: Robin Hobb

Assassin's Quest is a 1997 fantasy novel by American writer Robin Hobb, the third in her Farseer Trilogy. It follows the exploits of FitzChivalry Farseer, whose narrative continues in Fool's Errand.

“Sometimes a man doesn't know how badly he's hurt until someone else probes the wound.”

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“I healed. Not completely. A scar is never the same as good flesh, but it stops the bleeding.”

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“Not being able to think of a reply is not the same thing as accepting another's words.”

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“There is a dead spot in the night, that coldest, blackest time when the world has forgotten evening and dawn is not yet a promise. A time when it is far too early to arise, but so late that going to bed makes small sense.”

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“Someday is someday, and maybe it will be or maybe it won't. This is a human thing, to worry about things that may or may not come to be. You can't eat meat until you've killed it.”

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“I thought we had lost you. I thought we'd done something worse than let you die.' His old arms were tight and strong about me.

I was kind to the old man. I did not tell him they had.”

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“No. This is right. I feel it. I am the Catalyst, and I came to change all things. Prophets become warriors, dragons hunt as wolves.
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“Besides, if there were no dragons of flesh and blood and fire, whence would come the idea for these stone carvings?”

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“But a living is not a life.”

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