The Name of the Wind (The Kingkiller Chronicle, #1)
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Read between January 14 - January 24, 2022
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Bast shrugged. “There are a few young wives in town. A scattering of daughters.” He grinned like a child. “I tend to make my own fun.”
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Ew what is this
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In truth, they seemed more content and faithful than many officially married couples I have seen since.
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Bruh.
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The day we fret about the future is the day we leave our childhood behind.
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“What does D stand for?” he asked with the barest hint of a smile.
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Why would he ask?
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What’s more, he didn’t notice that the receipt read pennies instead of talents.
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No businessman is this dumb
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“Your lordship might try Bentley’s.
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Why would he assume he was a lord? He's Wearing a towel...
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Fear tends to come from ignorance. Once I knew what the problem was, it was just a problem, nothing to fear.
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and for new shoes like these I charge a talent, maybe a talent and two.” He pointed at my feet. “Those shoes, on the other hand, are used, and I don’t sell used shoes.”
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Why would he just give him shoes?
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The boy grows upward, but the girl grows up.
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I nodded solemnly. “Rieusa, tu kialus A’isha tua.” Thank you for bringing me close to your family.
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Of course he speaks his language
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Denna lowered her face into her hands and began to cry in quiet, hopeless sobs.
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Lol what? From him paying the lute?
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“Rian, would you please cross your legs?” The request was made with such an earnest tone that not even a titter escaped the class. Looking puzzled, Rian crossed her legs. “Now that the gates of hell are closed,” Hemme said in his normal, rougher tones. “We can begin.”
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Wtf
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Lmao I had the same reaction
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Simmon could always make me smile, no matter what was going on.
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What? When?
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“He sold me the candle, too.”
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Why would he even have a candle if they're banned there
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like a pillar of anger.
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Lol
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“Women, Reshi,” Bast said immediately. “There’s a real paucity of women.”
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Well written women. Agreed
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“There are two sure ways to lose a friend, one is to borrow, the other to lend.”
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even the lowest art of all: poetry.
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Lol such a hater
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“Four talents,” she said. “That’s the minimum.”
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Take it then pay off half immediately
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Second, I was brilliant. Not just your run-of-the-mill brilliance either. I was extraordinarily brilliant.
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Barf
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Somewhere around the fifth span I began to show definite signs of wear.
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A "span" isn't a set time to have a number of them
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“This Mourning,”
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Typo?
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“Deoch owns this place,” Simmon said sharply. “And he absolutely hates it when musicians suck up to him.
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But of course he loves golden boi
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Kvothe tore the half-written sheet with slow care, the sound bleeding the color from Chronicler’s face.
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Ass
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Her eyes danced. “Very well,” she said. “I’ll have yours first though.”
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This is tedious af
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I fought off the momentary pang at being utterly destitute again
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This book is so tedious jesu
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Though I had neither means nor reason to keep a horse, I knew good from bad,
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How? When? With What experience ? Wagon horses?
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You see, troupers live and die by the horses that pull their wagons,
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Horses that pull wagons are vastly different than riding horses. Eff off
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He must think I was either a raving lunatic, or
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Or an idiot that thinks he knows horses
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I twitched the reins
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I kNoW hOrSeS
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I knew how to cover ground quickly when I needed to.
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This explains nothing
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We shook hands, and I took time to help him load Keth-Selhan
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Nothing better than an 18 handed hot blooded pack horse
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Still I recognized her. Denna.
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Of course wtf
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or what unexpected tragedies the following day will bring.
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These cliff hanger sentences are so cheap and ineffectual
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outlining her nudity in perfect profile for a moment.
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This dude is whacking it as he writes
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“is that men fall for Denna all the time. Do you know what that’s like for her? How tiresome it is? I am one of her few friends.
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Oh yes and we all know how much women hate women too so she's totally friendless. Too hot to live
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“A hind is a female deer. A wild deer.
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Lol deer talk