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

by Patrick Rothfuss

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

The saying “time heals all wounds” is false. Time heals most wounds.

“But we are all creatures of habit. It is far too easy to stay in the familiar ruts we dig for ourselves. Perhaps I even viewed it as fair. My punishment for not being there

The closeness of her was the sweetest, sharpest thing my life had ever known.