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

by Patrick Rothfuss

For he knew the name of the wind, and so the wind obeyed him.

It was not a large road, nor well traveled. It didn’t seem to lead anywhere, as some roads do.

all the rich books are found inside where the light is bad. But lovely girls tend to be out in the sunshine and therefore much easier to study without risk of injuring one’s eyes.”

Let us hurry forward to the only tale of any real importance.” His smile broadened. “Mine.”

“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.”

It was the most difficult thing I had ever done. It took me almost all afternoon.

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

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

You have to be a bit of a liar to tell a story the right way. Too much truth confuses the facts. Too much honesty makes you sound insincere.”

It slowly began to dawn on me that I had been staring at her wordlessly for an impossible amount of time. Lost in my thoughts, lost in the sight of her.

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.”

“You know how hard it is to find a pretty girl with the right sort of ears,” Bast said matter-of-factly.

“No matter where she stood, she was in the center of the room.”

“In what manner was she beautiful? I realize that I cannot say enough. So. Since I cannot say enough, at least I will avoid saying too much.

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

“Isn’t that the way of the world?” she said. “We want the sweet things, but we need the unpleasant ones.”

We understand how dangerous a mask can be. We all become what we pretend to be.”

“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.”