The Wise Man's Fear (The Kingkiller Chronicle, #2)

by Patrick Rothfuss

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.

Books are a poor substitute for female companionship, but they are easier to find.

“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.”

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