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Good gravy the Nighteyes hype was legit

"Instead of looking down at a ship that other hands are more capable of building, take up the task you are given and suit yourself to it"

"A bastard, Regal, is a unique thing. Put a signet ring on his hand and send him forth, and you have created a diplomat no foreign ruler will dare to turn away. He may safely be sent where a prince of the blood may not be risked. Imagine the uses for one who is and yet is not of the royal bloodline. Hostage exchanges. Marital alliances. The diplomacy of the knife." // what in the Le Guin? This book slaps

It's all fun and games til you run into "one of those extraordinary specimens of human fungus"

"All the same: in village alehouses up and down England, they are blaming the king and Anne Boleyn for the weather: the concubine, the great whore. If the king would take back his lawful wife Katherine, the rain would stop. And indeed, who can doubt that everything would be different and better, if only England were ruled by village idiots and their drunken friends?"