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

by Patrick Rothfuss

Vashet held her hand to her chest as if gossiping. “Did you hear what Kvothe brought back from the sword tree? The things a barbarian cannot understand: silence and stillness. The heart of Ademre. What did he offer to Shehyn? Willingness to bleed for the school.”

We do not feel it important to keep someone else’s sex all to ourselves, like a miser hoarding gold.”