The Wise Man's Fear (The Kingkiller Chronicle, #2)

by Patrick Rothfuss

Half of seeming clever is keeping your mouth shut at the right times.

Cyphus bears the blue flame. Stercus is in thrall of iron. Ferule chill and dark of eye. Usnea lives in nothing but decay. Grey Dalcenti never speaks. Pale Alenta brings the blight. Last there is the lord of seven: Hated. Hopeless. Sleepless. Sane. Alaxel bears the shadow’s hame.”