The Slow Regard of Silent Things (The Kingkiller Chronicle, #2.5)

by Patrick Rothfuss

Answers were always important, but they were seldom easy. She would simply have to take her time and do things in the proper way.

she wished it was a different sort of day, even though she knew that nothing good could come from wanting at the world.

And she was sorry. She knew better. Cruelty never helped the turning of the world.