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“Out of class, Elxa Dal was charming, soft-spoken, and even a little ridiculous when the mood was on him. But when he taught, his personality strode back and forth between mad prophet and galley-slave drummer.”
― Patrick Rothfuss, The Name of the Wind

“RATS. In sewers. In religions. In words like pirate, desperate, and narrative. Rats infest this glossary as surely as words and mushrooms.”
― Jeff VanderMeer, City of Saints and Madmen

“In fact, Kote himself seemed rather sickly. Not exactly unhealthy, but hollow. Wan. Like a plant that’s been moved into the wrong sort of soil and, lacking something vital, has begun to wilt.”
― Patrick Rothfuss, The Name of the Wind

“In places without clocks, time is measured by actions rather than action being measured by time.”
― David Graeber, Bullshit Jobs: A Theory