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If you do as I tell you, you'll have nothing but smooth silver scars to show the ladies how brave you are.

By your logic I should also be in charge of Solinade dances, needlework, and horse thieving.

Speculative fiction is where my heart lies. It's what I read growing up, and it's what I read as an adult.

The smaller you are, the more bravery means.

Small facts lead to great knowing.

Didn't think I could trust you," I said. "I was wrong, and I regret it. It wasn't the clearest thinking I've ever done.

I like your manly bravado," she said. "Do it some more.

One reason we love fiction is because stories have a comforting shape. They provide a resolution that's lacking in our regular lives.

The title of the class was listed in fresh dark ink: Introduction to Not Being a Stupid Jackass.

It was a spider as large as a wagon wheel, black as slate.

Just handle the books gently and you'll get along fine.

Barbarians have no woman to teach them civilization. Barbarians cannot learn." I

And there was Ambrose. To deem us simply enemies is to lose the true flavor of our relationship.

But old habits die slow deaths.

It is better to have a mouthful of poison than a secret of the heart.

I hate nothing more than doing things badly.

I love her more than just a little. I think it's because we're both somewhat broken, in our own odd ways. More importantly, we're both aware of it.

If your name is getting too heavy, you should have Kvothe give you a new one.

Don't put beets in the soup, Reshi. They're foul.

Love is blind, and a deaf-mute too.

The day we fret about the future is the day we leave our chilhood behind.

Looking up, I saw her and all I could think was, beautiful. Beautiful.

There is a sort of camaraderie that rarely exists except between men who have fought the same enemies and know the same women.

Stories don't need to be new to bring you joy. Some stories are like familiar friends. Some are dependable as bread.

Some were bitter. Some were sweet. Some were hardly anything. That was just the way of things.

I do this so you cannot help but hear. A wise man views a moonless night with fear.

But a leader is not a muscle. A leader is a mind.

A moment in the mind is worth nine in the fire.

Then, since all my other options seemed to be exhausted, I decided it would be best if I fell off the roof.

A poet is a musician who can't sing.

His voice is like a thunderstorm, and his hands know every secret hidden deep beneath the cool, dark earth.

Music sounds different to the one who plays it. It is the musician's curse.

It's not over if you're still here," Chronicler said. "It's not a tragedy if you're still alive.

He had a bright, reckless tenor that was always wandering off, looking for notes in the wrong places.

Lies are simpler, and most of the time they make better sense.

I realize that I cannot say enough. So. Since I cannot say enough, at least I will avoid saying to much.

If there is one thing I will not abide it is the folly of a willful pride.

If there's one thing I'm well versed in it's my own good qualities.

May all your stories be glad ones, and your roads be smooth and short.

Half a King is my favorite book by Joe Abercrombie so far, and that's saying something.

I needed to let them know they couldn't hurt me. I've learned that the best way to stay safe is to make your enemies think you can't be hurt.

I am not accusing you of engaging in boyish fancy. I am advising you to avoid the appearance of boyish fancy.
Master Loren to Kvothe

Besides, there was a dignity to doing things in your own time.

I'd like respect, but failing that, a little healthy fear can go a long way to making things run smoothly.

There are two types of secrets. There are secrets of the mouth and secrets of the heart.

She smiled and was suddenly young again. How does it feel to know where you are going?

When you love something, you have to make sure it loves you back, or you'll bring about no end of trouble chasing it.

Anyone so lacking in empathy that he could systematically torment and physically degrade another should not be suffered to live.

It's like an endless chain of half-built houses,

Things are more easily seen from edges. Danger rouses the sleeping mind. It makes some things clear.

She curled snugly along the inside of my body, so easy and natural, as if she had been designed to fit there.

It's hard for me to take myself too seriously when I'm constantly experiencing firsthand what an incredible gimp I can be.

He was giving me enough rope to hang myself with. Apparently he didn't realize that once a noose is tied it will fit one neck as easily as another.

Gods of my fathers," Deoch said reverently. "Keep her always so: unchanging, past my understanding, and safe from harm.

You," I said, "are sweet music in a distant room.

A pinned butterfly holds no delight. A pinned butterfly is nothing like a butterfly at all.

As a writer, I first felt successful before I was published.

Careful boy, that one will steal your heart. Men fall for her like wheat before a sickle blade.

If I could sum it up in 50 words, I wouldn't have needed to write a whole novel about it.

I loved college. I wish I was still taking classes instead of teaching them.

I trouped, traveled, loved, lost, trusted and was betrayed.

[Simmon] "Go on."
I [Kvothe] stayed where I was. "It's not that easy."
"Nothing's ever easy with you," Wilem muttered.

Eavesdropping is a deplorable habit, but I have developed worse ones since.

stories were told here, but they happened somewhere else.

If you fall, you fall," Elodin shrugged. "Sometimes falling teaches us things too." In dreams you often fall before you wake.

If we don't have impressive-sounding names for things, no one will take us seriously.

Call a jack a jack. Call a spade a spade. But always call a whore a lady. Their lives are hard enough, and it never hurts to be polite.

In truth, they seemed more content and faithful than many officially married couples I have seen since. Our

There are some silences that even words cannot drive away.

I felt as if I was trying to think through syrup.

CHAPTER EIGHTY-NINE Losing the Light

My alar is like the ocean in storm. (Devi)

A clever, thoughtless person is one of the most terrifying things there is.

This story is for all the slightly broken people out there. I am one of you. You are not alone. You are all beautiful to me.

He spoke gently, laughed often, and never exercised his wit at the expense of others.

But to love something despite. To know the flaws and love them too. This is rare and pure and perfect.

It will be worth it if I am remembered, if not flatteringly, then at least with some small amount of accuracy.

Damn chicken. Come eat your dinner. I'm cold.

While it sounds interesting, it was really only a headache pressed between covers.

I can sell anything to anyone. That is actually my superpower. I am really good at negotiating and persuading.

Three circles. Perfect for asking. It was better to be gentle and polite. It was the worst sort of selfishness to force yourself upon the world.

The majority of important things cannot be said outright, they cannot be made explicit. They can only be implied.

The cost of a loaf is a simple thing, and so a loaf is often sought, but some things are past valuing: laughter, land, and love are never bought.

I want a magical horse that fits in my pocket," Wil said. "And a ring of red amber that gives me power over demons. And an endless supply of cake.

Quite impressive, to unbind what I have wrought with nothing more than blood.

There are two sure ways to lose a friend, one is to borrow, the other is to lend.

I've waited a long time to show these flowers how pretty you are.

Money is nice, but the world is full of things that people would never sell. Favors and obligation are worth far, far more.

Well, you know what they say: Finding the right analogy is as hard as ...

Everyone knows one story, I thought. Everyone knows at least one.

Appearance is a type of power.

If I seem to wander, if I seem to stray, remember that true stories seldom take the straightest way

The crickets, too, respect the silence. Their calls are like careful stitches in its fabric, almost too small to be seen.

I (Kvothe) started to say something else, but she (Vashet) put her hand over my mouth. I've said I understand. Stop fighting after you have won.

I do not understand this man," [Tempi] said. "Is he attempting to buy sex with me? Or does he wish to fight?

It felt exactly like someone had hit me in the head with a church.

Do all the women in the world secretly know each other?" Sim asked. "Because that would explain a lot.

One of my favorite artists on Deviantart.

Do not mistake me for my mask. You see light dappling on the water and forget the deep, cold dark beneath.

Always think about what you're singing, honey.