Assassin's Quest (The Farseer Trilogy, Book 3)

There is no action that takes place between humans in which secrets do not play a part, whether it be a game of cards or the selling of a cow. The advantage is always to the one who is shrewder in what secret to reveal and when.

They regarded our passage not at all, and by afternoon I felt no more significant than an ant. I had never thought to be disdained by a tree.

If a minstrel must embroider the truth to help us recall it fully, then let her, and let no one say she has lied. Truth is often much larger than facts.

He pleasures his body with drugs and deadens his soul with his savage amusements. Aye, and spreads the disease to those around him, until they take no satisfaction in a contest of skill

bellicose

peremptorily

There is no more slippery task than to refrain from thinking of something.

wherewithal

I healed. Not completely. A scar is never the same as good flesh, but it stops the bleeding.