The Name of the Wind (The Kingkiller Chronicle, #1)

by Patrick Rothfuss

When we are children we seldom think of the future. This innocence leaves us free to enjoy ourselves as few adults can. The day we fret about the future is the day we leave our childhood behind.

If you can find someone like that, someone who you can hold and close your eyes to the world with, then you’re lucky.

as above, so below.

And so, for a while, I was lost in grief and knew nothing.

Wisdom precludes boldness.”