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  • #1
    Patrick Rothfuss
    “I have an apple that thinks its a pear. And a bun that thinks it’s a cat. And a lettuce that thinks its a lettuce."
    "It’s a clever lettuce, then."
    "Hardly," she said with a delicate snort. "Why would anything clever think it’s a lettuce?"
    "Even if it is a lettuce?" I asked.
    "Especially then," she said. "Bad enough to be a lettuce. How awful to think you are a lettuce too.”
    Patrick Rothfuss, The Wise Man's Fear

  • #2
    George R.R. Martin
    “The best fantasy is written in the language of dreams. It is alive as dreams are alive, more real than real ... for a moment at least ... that long magic moment before we wake.

    Fantasy is silver and scarlet, indigo and azure, obsidian veined with gold and lapis lazuli. Reality is plywood and plastic, done up in mud brown and olive drab. Fantasy tastes of habaneros and honey, cinnamon and cloves, rare red meat and wines as sweet as summer. Reality is beans and tofu, and ashes at the end. Reality is the strip malls of Burbank, the smokestacks of Cleveland, a parking garage in Newark. Fantasy is the towers of Minas Tirith, the ancient stones of Gormenghast, the halls of Camelot. Fantasy flies on the wings of Icarus, reality on Southwest Airlines. Why do our dreams become so much smaller when they finally come true?

    We read fantasy to find the colors again, I think. To taste strong spices and hear the songs the sirens sang. There is something old and true in fantasy that speaks to something deep within us, to the child who dreamt that one day he would hunt the forests of the night, and feast beneath the hollow hills, and find a love to last forever somewhere south of Oz and north of Shangri-La.

    They can keep their heaven. When I die, I'd sooner go to middle Earth.”
    George R.R. Martin

  • #3
    Patrick Rothfuss
    “Words are pale shadows of forgotten names. As names have power, words have power. Words can light fires in the minds of men. Words can wring tears from the hardest hearts.”
    Patrick Rothfuss, The Name of the Wind

  • #4
    Patrick Rothfuss
    “I've waited a long time to show these flowers how pretty you are.”
    Patrick Rothfuss, The Wise Man's Fear

  • #5
    Patrick Rothfuss
    “Music is a proud, temperamental mistress. Give her the time and attention she deserves, and she is yours. Slight her and there will come a day when you call and she will not answer. So I began sleeping less to give her the time she needed.”
    Patrick Rothfuss, The Name of the Wind

  • #6
    Robert Jordan
    “Duty is heavy as a mountain, death is light as a feather.”
    Robert Jordan

  • #7
    Robert Jordan
    “Always plan for the worst, child, that way all your surprises are pleasant ones.”
    Robert Jordan, The Dragon Reborn

  • #8
    Robert Jordan
    “He came like the wind, like the wind touched everything, and like the wind was gone.

    -from The Dragon Reborn. By Loial, son of Arent son of Halan, the Fourth Age.”
    Robert Jordan, A Memory of Light

  • #9
    Robert Jordan
    “There is some delight in ale and wine
    And some in girls with ankles fine
    But my delight, yes always mine
    Is to dance with Jak O’ the Shadows

    We will toss the dice however they fall
    And snuggle the girls be they short or tall
    Then follow Lord Mat whenever he calls
    To dance with Jak O’ the Shadows.”
    Robert Jordan, Knife of Dreams

  • #10
    Robert Jordan
    “Yes, I'm alive," Mat said. "I'm usually pretty good at staying alive. I've only failed one time that I can remember, and it hardly counts.”
    Robert Jordan, A Memory of Light

  • #11
    Robert Jordan
    “Life is a dream from which we all must wake before we can dream again.”
    Robert Jordan, The Fires of Heaven

  • #12
    Robert Jordan
    “Two days' hunger made a fine sauce for anything.”
    Robert Jordan, The Eye of the World

  • #13
    George R.R. Martin
    “... a mind needs books as a sword needs a whetstone, if it is to keep its edge.”
    George R.R. Martin, A Game of Thrones

  • #14
    George R.R. Martin
    “Bran thought about it. 'Can a man still be brave if he's afraid?'
    'That is the only time a man can be brave,' his father told him.”
    George R.R. Martin, A Game of Thrones

  • #15
    George R.R. Martin
    “Winter is coming.”
    George R.R. Martin, A Game of Thrones

  • #16
    George R.R. Martin
    “When you play a game of thrones you win or you die.”
    George R.R. Martin, A Game of Thrones

  • #17
    Robert Jordan
    Thus is our treaty written; thus is agreement made. Thought is the arrow of time; memory never fades. What was asked is given; the price is paid.
    Robert Jordan, Lord of Chaos

  • #18
    George R.R. Martin
    “When the snows fall and the white winds blow, the lone wolf dies but the pack survives.”
    George R.R. Martin, A Game of Thrones

  • #19
    George R.R. Martin
    “Rhaegar fought valiantly, Rhaegar fought nobly, Rhaegar fought honorably. And Rhaegar died.”
    George R.R. Martin, A Storm of Swords

  • #20
    George R.R. Martin
    “Night gathers, and now my watch begins. It shall not end until my death. I shall take no wife, hold no lands, father no children. I shall wear no crowns and win no glory. I shall live and die at my post. I am the sword in the darkness. I am the watcher on the walls. I am the fire that burns against cold, the light that brings the dawn, the horn that wakes the sleepers, the shield that guards the realms of men. I pledge my life and honor to the Night's Watch, for this night and all the nights to come.”
    George R.R. Martin

  • #21
    George R.R. Martin
    “The things I do for love.”
    George R.R. Martin, A Game of Thrones

  • #22
    George R.R. Martin
    “You know nothing, Jon Snow.”
    George R.R. Martin

  • #23
    George R.R. Martin
    “Hodor!”
    George R.R. Martin

  • #24
    George R.R. Martin
    “A man might befriend a wolf, even break a wolf, but no man could truly tame a wolf.”
    George R.R. Martin, A Dance with Dragons

  • #25
    Robert Jordan
    “Always leave a way out, unless you really want to find out how hard a man can fight when he’s nothing to lose.”
    Robert Jordan, The Fires of Heaven

  • #26
    Robert Jordan
    “The Creator made women to please the eye, and to boggle the mind.”
    Robert Jordan, The Wheel of Time: Boxed Set

  • #27
    Patrick Rothfuss
    “It's the questions we can't answer that teach us the most. They teach us how to think. If you give a man an answer, all he gains is a little fact. But give him a question and he'll look for his own answers.”
    Patrick Rothfuss, The Wise Man's Fear

  • #28
    Patrick Rothfuss
    “Half of seeming clever is keeping your mouth shut at the right times.”
    Patrick Rothfuss, The Wise Man's Fear

  • #29
    Patrick Rothfuss
    “Books are a poor substitute for female companionship, but they are easier to find.”
    Patrick Rothfuss, The Wise Man's Fear

  • #30
    Patrick Rothfuss
    “... for most practical purposes, Tarbean had two parts: Waterside and Hillside. Waterside is where people are poor. That makes them beggars, thieves and whores. Hillside is where people are rich. That makes them solicitors, politicians and courtesans.”
    Patrick Rothfuss, The Name of the Wind



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