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

by Patrick Rothfuss

could comfortably fit into a thimble without taking it off your finger first.

What’s more, I had watched a hundred men dash themselves to pieces against Denna like ships attempting to ignore the tide.

“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.”

Travel is the great leveler, the great teacher, bitter as medicine, crueler than mirror-glass. A long stretch of road will teach you more about yourself than a hundred years of quiet introspection.”