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

by Patrick Rothfuss

“Only priests and fools are fearless, and I’ve never been on the best of terms with God.”

“Call a jack a jack. Call a spade a spade. But always call a whore a lady. Their lives are hard enough, and it never hurts to be polite.”

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.

When you wait a few span or month to hear a finished song, the anticipation adds savor. But after a year excitement begins to sour.

Yes, Mr Rothfuss.

If there is one thing I will not abide, it is the folly of a willful pride.”

A poet is a musician who can’t sing. Words have to find a man’s mind before they can touch his heart, and some men’s minds are woeful small targets. Music touches their hearts directly no matter how small or stubborn the mind of the man who listens.”

A clever, thoughtless person is one of the most terrifying things there is.

If you can find someone like that, someone who you can hold and close your eyes to the world with, then you’re lucky. Even if it only lasts for a minute or a day.

“I only know one story. But oftentimes small pieces seem to be stories themselves.”

Fear tends to come from ignorance. Once I knew what the problem was, it was just a problem, nothing to fear.

The boy grows upward, but the girl grows up.

Besides, anger can keep you warm at night, and wounded pride can spur a man to wondrous things.

he was giving me enough rope to hang myself with. Apparently he didn’t realize that once a noose is tied, it will fit one neck as easily as another.

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

That’s why stories appeal to us. They give us the clarity and simplicity our real lives lack.”

“There are two sure ways to lose a friend, one is to borrow, the other to lend.”

Etiquette is a set of rules people use so they can be rude to each other in public.

“Nothing makes a man feel older than a young woman.”

“Beer dulls a memory, brand sets it burning, but wine is the best for a sore heart’s yearning.”

“Well, you know what they say: Finding the right analogy is as hard as…” I put on a thoughtful expression. “As hard as…” I made an inarticulate grasping gesture.