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

by Patrick Rothfuss

Anyone can love a thing because. That’s as easy as putting a penny in your pocket. But to love something despite. To know the flaws and love them too. That is rare and pure and perfect.

Clothes do not make the man, but you need the proper costume if you want to play the part.

“If you fall, you fall.” Elodin shrugged. “Sometimes falling teaches us things too. In dreams you often fall before you wake.”