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

by Patrick Rothfuss

“Everyone eats a different part of the pig,” he’d said. “You want to fit in, you’ll do the same.” Different places, different decorums.

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

no man is brave that has never walked a hundred miles. If you want to know the truth of who you are, walk until not a person knows your name. Travel is the great leveler, the great teacher, bitter as medicine, crueler than mirror-glass. A long stretch of road will teach you more about yourself than a hundred years of quiet introspection.”