Status Updates From Fool's Fate (Tawny Man, #3)

who hurt you robin hobb?

Humanity fears no rivals. You have forgotten what it was to share the world with creatures as arrogantly superior as yourselves. You think to arrange the world to your liking. So you map the land and draw lines across it, claiming ownership simply because you can draw a picture of it. The plants that grow and the beasts that rove you mark as your own, claiming not only what lives today but what might grow tomorrow.

He caught his breath then laughed, a sound like glass breaking. Tears stood in his eyes. “You believe that so thoroughly, don’t you? Ah, Beloved. Of all the things I must bid farewell to, you are the most difficult to lose.”