Daniel

“I seek from curiosity. I seek the knowing of things.” “Knowing is a type of power,” Shehyn pointed out, then seemed to change the subject. “Tempi told me there was a Rhinta among the bandits as their leader.” “Rhinta?” I asked respectfully. “A bad thing. A man who is more than a man, yet less than a man.” “A demon?” I asked, using the Aturan word without thinking. “Not a demon,” Shehyn said, switching easily to Aturan. “There are no such things as demons. Your priests tell stories of demons to frighten you.” She met my eye briefly, gesturing a graceful: Apologetic honesty and serious import . “But there are bad things in the world. Old things in the shape of men. And there are a handful worse than all the rest. They walk the world freely and do terrible things.” I felt hope rising within me. “I have also heard them called the Chandrian,” I said.”
― Patrick Rothfuss, The Wise Man's Fear

“The less you talk,” Lehav said, “the easier it will be for everyone.” “I owe them…” “What?” He raised an eyebrow. “An explanation?” “Yes.” “You can explain a lot of things to a man. His own death is not one of them.”
― Brian Staveley, The Providence of Fire

“The Fremen were supreme in that quality the ancients called "spannungsbogen" -- which is the self-imposed delay between desire for a thing and the act of reaching out to grasp that thing.”
― Frank Herbert, Dune

“A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies. The man who never reads lives only one.”
― George R.R. Martin, A Dance with Dragons