Gemma Masson

“Diplomacy is the velvet glove that cloaks the fist of power.”
― Robin Hobb

“You’re in a car with a beautiful boy, and he won’t tell you that he loves you, but he loves you. And you feel like you’ve done something terrible, like robbed a liquor store, or swallowed pills, or shoveled yourself a grave in the dirt, and you’re tired. You’re in a car with a beautiful boy, and you’re trying not to tell him that you love him, and you’re trying to choke down the feeling, and you’re trembling, but he reaches over and he touches you, like a prayer for which no words exist, and you feel your heart taking root in your body, like you’ve discovered something you didn’t even have a name for.”
― richard siken

“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.”
― Robin Hobb, Assassin's Apprentice

“The fight isn't over until you win it, Fitz. That's all you have to remember. No matter what the other man says.”
― Robin Hobb, Royal Assassin