The Name of the Wind (The Kingkiller Chronicle, #1)
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The most obvious part was a hollow, echoing quiet, made by things that were lacking.
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A tinker’s debt is always paid: Once for any simple trade. Twice for freely-given aid. Thrice for any insult made.”
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“Listen three times, Bast.”
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“A very special kind of myth that creates itself. The best lies about me are the ones I told.”
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If I seem to wander, if I seem to stray, remember that true stories seldom take the straightest way.”
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Let us hurry forward to the only tale of any real importance.” His smile broadened. “Mine.”
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You don’t really understand the ocean until you are in the midst of it, nothing but ocean on all sides, stretching away endlessly. Only then do you realize how small you are, how powerless.