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So I did, but reluctantly, and not at all sure that Burrich was right that bonding with a puppy wouldn't solve anything. I longed for his warm little world of straw and siblings and milk and mother. At that moment, I could imagine no better one.
Fitz in Assassin's Apprentice
Many's the time since then that a smile, a compliment on how well my horse had been cared for, and a quick question put to a stable boy brought me information that all the coin in the kingdom couldn't have bribed out of him.
Fitz in Assassin's Apprentice
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
It was an impressive display of good food abused in the name of fashionable cooking.
Fitz in Assassin's Apprentice
It is a heady thing to be suddenly proclaimed the centre of someone's world, even if that someone is an eight-week-old puppy.
Fitz in Assassin's Apprentice
It was inside me. The more I sought it, the stronger it grew. It loved me. Loved me even if I couldn't, wouldn't, didn't love myself. Loved me even if I hated it. It set its tiny teeth in my soul and braced and held so that I couldn't crawl any further. And when I tried, a howl of despair burst from it, searing me, forbidding me to break so sacred a trust.
It was Smithy.
Fitz in Assassin's Apprentice
Look at Lady Patience and her woman, Lacey. They are always about and doing things. Their apartments are a jungle of the lady's plants, and the cuffs of her gowns are sometimes a bit sticky from her paper-making, or she will have bits of leaves in her hair from her herbery work, but she is still just as beautiful.
Fitz in Assassin's Apprentice
As we walked her home, Smithy whined beggingly for her attention, and so won from her a cuddle and a pat before we left. I envied him the ability to whine so well. My own seemed to go unheard.
Fitz in Assassin's Apprentice
However, when all roads lead to death, there is no point in running down any of them.
Fitz in Assassin's Apprentice
I wanted that back, the warm smell of the horses and dogs and straw, the simple tasks, done well and completely, and the good sleep of exhaustion at the end of a day.
Fitz in Assassin's Apprentice
Men cannot grieve as dogs do. We should be grateful for that.
Fitz in Assassin's Apprentice
As Black Rolf had once shown me, much discomfort was based on human expectations. As a man, I expected to be warm and dry when I chose to be. Animals did not harbour any such beliefs. So it was raining. That part of me that was wolf could accept that. Rain meant being cold and wet. Once I acknowledged that and stopped comparing it to what I wished it to be, the conditions were far more tolerable. I set out.
Fitz in Fool's Errand
In the space of a sundown, you show me the wide world from a horse's back, and the soul of the world within my own walls.
Fitz in Fool's Errand
When you speak in riddles, it exasperates me. Yet when you try to speak clearly of yourself, it frightens me.
Fitz in Fool's Errand
No. No wolf wastes time on vengeance, and that is what this is. Vengeance, pure and simple. When people look most vicious, what you are seeing is not their animal side. It is the savagery that only humans can muster. When you see me loyal to my family, then you see the wolf.
Fitz in Fool's Fate
It made me wish there were a place as much me as that place is you. A place I would keep as secret.
Fitz in Assassin's Apprentice
Beloved, I have missed your company.
Fitz in The Golden Fool
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.
Fitz in Assassin's Quest
random quote
There is a fragrance in the forest. It does not come from a single flower or leaf. It is not the rich aroma of dark crumbly earth or the sweetness of fruit that has passed from merely ripe to mellow and rich. The scent I recalled was a combination of all these things, and of sunlight touching and awakening their essences and of a very slight wind that blended them perfectly. She smelled like that.
from "Forest Mage"