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

“Most prisons are of our own making. A man makes his own freedom, too.”

bemused.

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

Ostensibly,

unremitting

“When you spring to an idea, and decide it is truth, without evidence, you blind yourself to other possibilities.

exhorted

concede.

perspicacious