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“Men cannot grieve as dogs do. But we grieve for many years.”
FitzChivalry Farseer, Robin Hobb, "Assassin's Apprentice"
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“Men cannot grieve as dogs do. But we grieve for many years.”
FitzChivalry Farseer, Robin Hobb, "Assassin's Apprentice"
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“Don’t do what you can’t undo, until you’ve considered what you can’t do once you’ve done it.”
King Shrewd, Robin Hobb, "Assassin's Apprentice"
“Sometimes luck belongs to children and madmen. That night I felt we were both.”
FitzChivalry Farseer, Robin Hobb, "Assassin's Apprentice"
“I’ve fed him at my table for six years, and never a word from his father, never a coin, never a visit, though my daughter gives me to understand he knows he fathered a bastard on her.
chivalry KNOWS??!!! Chivalry KNOWS about keppet's existence???!! wait
Just finished Assassin's Apprentice, by Robin Hobb.
This was good! This is my second of Hobb's series, and I think it's fair to day that I really like her show, action-light brand of fantasy. I'm eager to see what the rest of the trilogy has.
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Ok, so. I'm (properly) reading Assassin's Apprentice by Robin Hobb for the first time. (Not in a fugue state.)
Reactions to chapters 1-5 under the cut.
three dog deaths in a single book is. woof. wait no. i didn't mean that. i meant. i meant it was rough. FUCK. no. it was SAD
I'm listening to the audiobook of Assassin's Apprentice by Robin Hobb these days, and I cried at the part where Smithy saves Fitz's life, as I have both times I've read the book before. I've always known it resonated with me deeply, and it was that scene that made me realize I want to write a book like that someday (but better mwahaha). But this time, I realized or maybe remembered exactly why that is.
Fitz is lonely, oh so lonely, and feels like he's failed at everything and isn't good for anything. It isn't true. It isn't true! But it's what he believes, and he's seriously ready to throw himself off the highest tower because he can't see any point in living anymore.
But then Smithy is there, in his mind.
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 farther.
This happened to me. Not on a cold tower, but on the bathroom floor. Not with a puppy that was magically bonded to me and could speak into my mind, but with the hand of God that almost seemed to push the pause button on my body before I could do anything to myself, and then pressed play on "Caroline" by Seventh Day Slumber in my mind, speaking to my heart in a way that was so incredibly personal it takes my breath away to remember it.
No wonder I loved this book so much. I can't remember if I thought of the lowest period in my life the first time I read it, but no wonder it spoke to me so strongly, and still does. Fitz goes on to do things in later books that are incredibly stupid, frustrating, and personally disheartening to the point that I had to stop reading the series entirely. But there is this moment. I will always have to thank Robin Hobb for this.