Patrick Rothfuss - The Wise Man's Fear (2011)

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We love what we love. Reason does not enter into it. In many ways, unwise love is the truest love. Anyone can love a thing because. That's as easy as putting a penny in your pocket. But to love something despite. To know the flaws and love them too. That is rare and pure and perfect.

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I know," she said. "You have a stone in your heart, and some days it's so heavy there is nothing to be done. But you don't have to be alone for it. You should have come to me. I understand.

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Each woman is like an instrument, waiting to be learned, loved, and finely played, to have at last her own true music made.

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Secrets of the heart. We swallow hard against them every day, forcing them deep inside us. There they sit, growing heavier, festering. Given enough time, they cannot help but crush the heart that holds them.

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I can't give you the moon, the tinker said. She doesn't belong to me. She belongs only to herself.

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Just a little. Just the first faint breath of love... It wasn't dramatic, like some bolt of lightning with a crack of thunder following. It was more like when flint strikes steel and the spark fades almost too fast for you to see. But still, you know it's there, down where you can't see, kindling.

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If your name is getting too heavy, you should have Kvothe give you a new one.

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To be both rich and handsome was bad enough. But to have a voice like honey over warm bread on top of that was simply inexcusable.

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He hesitated, then lifted his head and sniffed. Have you been drinking? The question was more curious than accusatory. No, Bast said. The innkeeper raised an eyebrow. I've been tasting, Bast said, emphasizing the word. Tasting comes before drinking.

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You never do things the easy way, do you?" she said. "There's an easy way?" I asked.

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The air was heavy with the smell of leather and dust, of old parchment and binding glue. It smelled of secrets.

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It was only then I realized I didn't know the name of Elodin's class. I leafed through the ledger until I spotted Elodin's name, then ran my finger back to where the title of the class was listed in fresh dark ink: "Introduction to Not Being a Stupid Jackass." I sighed and penned my name in the single blank space beneath.

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I decided to dub the room with the good chairs my lutery. Or perhaps my performatory. I would need a while to come up with something suitably pretentious.

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Why would I want to win anything other than a beautiful game?

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I swear I've never met a man who has your knack for lack of social grace. If you weren't naturally charming, someone would have stabbed you by now.

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Pride is always a better lever against the nobility than reason.

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I spoke it soft, but close enough to brush against her lips. I spoke it quiet, but near enough so that the sound of it went twining through her hair. I spoke it hard and firm and dark and sweet.

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Good lord woman. If i had tits like yours I'd own half the world by now.

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I want a magical horse that fits in my pocket," Wil said. "And a ring of red amber that gives me power over demons. And an endless supply of cake.

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I am no poet. I do not love words for the sake of words. I love words for what they can accomplish. Similarly, I am no arithmetician. Numbers that speak only of numbers are of little interest to me.

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So Stapes conducted a dinner for just the two of us, then informed me of a dozen small but important mistakes I had made. Setting down a dirty utensil was considered crude, for example. That meant it was perfectly acceptable to lick one's knife clean. In fact, if you didn't want to dirty your napkin it was the only seemly thing to do.

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Death was like an unpleasant neighbor. You didn't talk about him for fear he might hear you and decide to pay a visit.

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It's the questions we can't answer that teach us the most. They teach us how to think. If you give a man an answer, all he gains is a little fact. But give him a question and he'll look for his own answers.

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Over his own dark Cealdish beard. Nothing like your marvelous facebear,

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There are three things all wise men fear: the sea in storm, a night with no moon, and the anger of a gentle man.

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The cost of a loaf is a simple thing, and so a loaf is often sought, but some things are past valuing: laughter, land, and love are never bought.

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Nothing in the world is harder than convincing someone of an unfamiliar truth.

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It is better to have a mouthful of poison than a secret of the heart.

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