King Shrewd is expecting me, rather he isn't expecting me, and that is precisely why I must go to him now.

That is the trick of good government. To make folk desire to live in such a way that there is no need for its intervention.

The fight isn't over until you win it, Fitz. That's all you have to remember. No matter what the other man says.

Death is always less painful and easier than life! You speak true. And yet we do not, day to day, choose death. Because ultimately, death is not the opposite of life, but the opposite of choice. Death is what you get when there are no choices left to make.

You can be the dead fish. I'll be the old stick

How do you politely explain to someone that you had believed for years he was a moron as well as a Fool?

Fitz: Shall we get up tomorrow and go looking for a wild pig? Nighteyes: I didn’t lose any wild pigs, did you?