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

by Patrick Rothfuss

My father would encourage me to try particularly good sections myself, and I learned to love the feel of good words.

“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.”

The day we fret about the future is the day we leave our childhood behind.

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

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

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

“It’s like everyone tells a story about themselves inside their own head. Always. All the time. That story makes you what you are. We build ourselves out of that story.”