"You," I surmised, and gestured round. "Thank you.""No," he denied. His pale hair floated out from beneath his cap in a halo as he shook his head. "But I assisted. Thank you for bathing. It makes my ta..."
- Robin Hobb
"Men cannot grieve as dogs do. But they grieve for many years."
"I feared my own kind more than anything the natural world could ever threaten me with."
"That is one thing that in all my years among your folk I have never become accustomed to. The great importance that you attach to what gender one is."