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Fool's Fate
by Robin Hobb
I think this is my new favorite of Hobb’s books! All the time I have spent getting to know Fitz, the Fool, and others made the actual plot-heavy elements feel so much more powerful and deep, and I was able to experience this book fully. Like always, the writing and prose of the book is top tier … it brings me so much into the world and into Fitz’s heart and mind. The pacing worked well for me this time, which I haven’t always found to be true in this series. The chapters taking place on Aslevjal and in the realm of the Pale Woman were especially gripping, if only because it was nice to get out of the Six Duchies. Learning more about the Wit and the Skill is always great too, and I think my favorite thing about this book is that there are so many great moments of action, but even more importantly, so many great moments of emotional tension and drama with characters I have grown to love! Very satisfying ending to the trilogy, and I know there is even more to go!
Some quotes:
- “A small pebble can turn a wheel out of its path, he told me, but warned me that it was seldom a pleasant experience for the pebble.”
- “Sometimes it seems unfair that events so old can reach forward through the years, sinking claws into one's life and twisting all that follows it. Yet perhaps that is the ultimate justice: we are the sum of all we have done added to the sum of all that has been done to us. There is no escaping that, not for any of us.”
- “"I am not the person I was born. Neither are you. I know no one who is. Truly, Fitz, all we ever know are facets of one another. Perhaps we feel as if we know one another well when we know several facets of that person. Father, son, brother, friend, lover, husband ...a man can be all of those things, yet no one person knows him in all those roles.”
- “"There are other types of neglect and deprivation. To deny what unfolds inside someone, to forbid the magic that comes unbidden, to impose ignorance in a way that invites danger, to say to a child, 'You must not be what you are. That is wrong."”
- “"A false perception," Web said heavily, "that many folk not of Old Blood have about us. It is bound to happen, when one people must keep their ways secret and unseen. But it leads to the idea that we use animals and then discard them. It makes it easier for folk to think we would bid a beat savage a man's family, or send a wolf to kill a flock of sheep.”
- “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"
- “”I will give you all your dreams, if only you come back!" My dream was dead in my arms. I continued to walk.”
- “When you dull pain and hide it from yourself.." My words trickled away. I did not want to sound self-pitying. "You dull your joys as well."”
- “If I think of all that befell me as a linked chain that brings me finally to this place, with you kneeling by the water, alive and whole, then.... then the price was not too high. To see you whole again heals me."
- “Maybe you have to keep your pain and loss to know that you can survive whatever life deals you. Perhaps without putting your pain in its place in your life, you become something of a coward."
Some quotes:
- “A small pebble can turn a wheel out of its path, he told me, but warned me that it was seldom a pleasant experience for the pebble.”
- “Sometimes it seems unfair that events so old can reach forward through the years, sinking claws into one's life and twisting all that follows it. Yet perhaps that is the ultimate justice: we are the sum of all we have done added to the sum of all that has been done to us. There is no escaping that, not for any of us.”
- “"I am not the person I was born. Neither are you. I know no one who is. Truly, Fitz, all we ever know are facets of one another. Perhaps we feel as if we know one another well when we know several facets of that person. Father, son, brother, friend, lover, husband ...a man can be all of those things, yet no one person knows him in all those roles.”
- “"There are other types of neglect and deprivation. To deny what unfolds inside someone, to forbid the magic that comes unbidden, to impose ignorance in a way that invites danger, to say to a child, 'You must not be what you are. That is wrong."”
- “"A false perception," Web said heavily, "that many folk not of Old Blood have about us. It is bound to happen, when one people must keep their ways secret and unseen. But it leads to the idea that we use animals and then discard them. It makes it easier for folk to think we would bid a beat savage a man's family, or send a wolf to kill a flock of sheep.”
- “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"
- “”I will give you all your dreams, if only you come back!" My dream was dead in my arms. I continued to walk.”
- “When you dull pain and hide it from yourself.." My words trickled away. I did not want to sound self-pitying. "You dull your joys as well."”
- “If I think of all that befell me as a linked chain that brings me finally to this place, with you kneeling by the water, alive and whole, then.... then the price was not too high. To see you whole again heals me."
- “Maybe you have to keep your pain and loss to know that you can survive whatever life deals you. Perhaps without putting your pain in its place in your life, you become something of a coward."