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“And he answered! Understand me, Atreides bitch! He answered me!”

“Feints within feints within feints within feints”

“Unfortunately, our father left many man-snails in our universe.

Very cool to see all these ideas and themes from Dune come back into play with this book. Some of them are so in your face about it but no *major* spoilers.


Also i like Ghanima a lot, she's cool and her name literally translating into "Spoil of war" will always be cool

“Clansmen raiding out of the Mountains of the Moon, in greater numbers than ever before . . . and better armed.”

“Distressing,” said Tyrion Lannister, who had armed them.

“They owe us water.”

Dune will be reread…

“I don’t like the things I know I’ll do,” he said. “For the first time in my life I understand my father.”

"I am the Greyjoy, Lord Reaper of Pyke, King of Salt and Rock, Son of the Sea Wind, and no man gives me a crown. I pay the iron price. I will take my crown, as Urron Redhand did five thousand years
ago.”

"True, you have been inside the circle of her arms, tasted her mouth, felt the warmth of her, and that is something I have never had. But
there is a part of her that is only for me. You cannot touch it,
no matter how hard you might try. And after she has left you
I will still be here, making her laugh. My light shining in her. I
will still be here long after she has forgotten your name."

he doesnt know how he sound

“You know better than that, Bast. All of this is my fault. The scrael, the
war. All my fault.”

“I was wondering, Auri. Would you mind showing me the Underthing?”

Auri looked away, suddenly shy. “Kvothe, I thought you were a gentleman,” she said, tugging self-consciously at her ragged shirt.

“Imagine, asking to see a girl’s underthing.”

She looked down, her hair hiding her face.

"There once was a ravel named Kvothe
Whose tongue was quick at quipping.
The masters thought him clever
And rewarded him with whipping.”

crying man Denna ran right back to the money

"They would have noticed that it fell at an angle, almost as if it were drawn to the draccus. Almost as if Tehlu himself steered it toward the beast with a vengeful hand. But there was no one there to see the truth of things.
And there was no God guiding it. Only me."

“I know you don’t think of me...” She trailed off.

It’s best to humor people in delirium, lest they turn
violent. “I think about you all the time."

"I heard you were in some trouble,” I said nonchalantly.
“So I thought I’d come and help.”

Her eyes went wide for a moment, then narrowed.
“You’re lying,” she said with a wry twist to her lips.


7 words each sentence... Rothfuss fr did something idk

"I shall call it The Book of the New Sun, for that book, lost now for so many ages, is said to have predicted his coming. And when it is finished again, I shall seal that second copy in a coffer of lead and set it adrift on the seas of space and time."

I do not feel it is so. We choose—or choose not—to be alone
when we decide whom we will accept as our fellows, and
whom we will reject.

Master of Nessus and the House Absolute, Chief of his Race, Gold of his People, Messenger of Dawn, Helios, Hyperion, Surya, Sav-itar, and Autarch!

"It was then that I conceived the idea that has at last borne fruit in this
record of my life."

OH MY GOD HE DONE CHANGED THE GAME AGAIN

"Until the New Sun..."

Liege," I said,
"you must know me."
From behind me, the voice I had heard in the air answered,
"This is the man of the price, the killer of my brother. For
him, I—and Hethor, who serves me—have served you."

throwing up man

I clasped my heart's companion to me, and felt myself clasped.

I felt myself clasped, and clasped my heart's companion to me.

"So you still live, then." His voice was very weak. "I feared
you would die... though I should have known better. I could
not revive you, and your pulse was but faint."