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

by Patrick Rothfuss

“‘I trouped, traveled, loved, lost, trusted and was betrayed.’

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.

PERHAPS THE GREATEST FACULTY our minds possess is the ability to cope with pain.

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

“But don’t worry. You’ve gotten me through the hard part, the waiting. Thank you.”

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

“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.”

“But there’s a better way. You show her she is beautiful. You make mirrors of your eyes, prayers of your hands against her body.