Assassin's Apprentice (The Farseer Trilogy, Book 1)

now that’s a pretty thing that has nothing to do with her face.

“When you cut pieces out of the truth to avoid looking like a fool, you end up sounding like a moron instead.

predilection

concede.

genuflecting

implacable

vociferous

think myself cured of all spite, but when I touch pen to paper, the hurt of a boy bleeds out with the sea-spawned ink, until I suspect each carefully formed black letter scabs over some ancient scarlet wound.

exhorted