# Royal Assassin  ## Metadata - Author: [[Robin Hobb]] - Full Title: Royal Assassin - Category: #books ## Highlights - “Lost a fight?” he’d asked, still out of breath. “The fight isn’t over until you win it, Fitz. That’s all you have to remember. No matter what the other man thinks. Or the horse.” ([Location 264](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B000FBFMFW&location=264)) - Instead, I lay there and thought what a stupid boy I had been last summer. I had courted a woman, thinking that I was walking out with a girl. Those three years’ difference in age had mattered so much to me, but in all the wrong ways. I had thought she had seen me as a boy, and despaired of winning her. So I had acted like a boy, instead of trying to make her see me as a man. And the boy had hurt her, and yes, deceived her, and in all likelihood, lost her forever. The dark closed down, blackness everywhere but for one whirling spark. She had loved the boy, and foreseen a life together for us. I clung to the spark and sank into sleep. ([Location 1201](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B000FBFMFW&location=1201)) - There is no peace in her for me, Fitz. Either she wants to be romped like a child, or she is quizzing me on the very details of some crisis I am trying to set aside for a few moments.” ([Location 2155](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B000FBFMFW&location=2155))