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She handed Mola an apple. "This one has a wish inside it," she said matter-of-factly. "Make sure you know what you want before you take a bite.
— Patrick Rothfuss
Denna lifted her glass in a salute. To the gullibility of the well-educated.
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For a moment my hands stopped aching from the cold, and instead longed for the familiar feel of music running through them.
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I like your manly bravado," she said. "Do it some more.
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One reason we love fiction is because stories have a comforting shape. They provide a resolution that's lacking in our regular lives.
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You remind me of a willow." She said easily. "Strong, deep-rooted, and hidden. You move easily when the storm comes, but never farther than you wish.
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the silence remained.
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But pride is the luxury of the strong.
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In what manner was she beautiful? I realize that I cannot say enough. So. Since I cannot say enough, at least I will avoid saying too much. Say
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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.
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Congratulations. That was the stupidest thing I've ever seen. Ever.
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bigger than a closet, empty except for an old oak door all bound
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Better by a long road.
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One of them had a large wooden sign nailed to its door proclaiming, NO SYMPATHY! I wondered what non-arcane visitors might think of the warning.
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Etiquette is a set of rules people use so they can be rude to each other in public.
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Looking up, I saw her and all I could think was, beautiful. Beautiful.
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And remember, small thaws make great floods, so be twice wary of a slowly changing season.
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Once, I sang colors to a blind man. Seven hours I played, but at the end he said he saw them, green and red and gold.
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Some were bitter. Some were sweet. Some were hardly anything. That was just the way of things.
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Metal rusts, music lasts forever.
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Then, since all my other options seemed to be exhausted, I decided it would be best if I fell off the roof.
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Deep in the Underthing, stones warm beneth her feet, Auri heard a faint, sweet strain of music.
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For me the really cool parts of being an author don't have anything to do with getting onto a bestseller list.
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Sometimes a situation grows so tangled that words are useless.
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Reputation is like a sort of armor, or a weapon you can brandish if need be.
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So what do you have planned for tonight?" I asked. "Only to pass time in your lovely company," Denna
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Isn't this the Eolian? I had heard that this is where pride pays silver and plays golden.
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There is a vast difference between having some coin and no coin. There is a feeling of helplessness that comes from an empty purse.
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No hard feelings about that time in the Crucible when you mixed my salts and I was nearly blind for a day. No. No, really, drink up!
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You don't want the world destroyed, because, you know, that's where your shoes are.
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All the truth is held in stories, you know?
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A clever, thoughtless person is one of the most terrifying things there is.
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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.
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Thieves, Heretics, and Whores
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A long road will teach you more about yourself than a hundred years of introspection.
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Luckily, languages are like musical instruments: the more you know, the easier it is to pick up new ones.
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He spoke gently, laughed often, and never exercised his wit at the expense of others.
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Seriously, it's like you stepped out of a storybook.
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Then he turned it the third time, and the boy's ass fell off.
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I scowled as loudly as I could.
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Needless to say, playing these things hurt, but it was a hurt like tender fingers on lute strings. I bled a bit and hoped that I would callous soon.
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All explicit knowledge is translated knowledge, and all translation is imperfect.
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We are more than the parts that form us.
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Too much looking can get in the way of seeing".
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Inherent power you possess as part of yourself. Granted power is lent or given by other people.
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I trouped, traveled, loved, lost, trusted and was betrayed.
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My alar is like the ocean in storm. (Devi)
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I'm spouting too much sense for you to understand
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What I personally knew about courting women could comfortably fit into a thimble without taking it off your finger first.
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No matter how you spend your life, your wit will defend you more often than a sword. Keep it sharp!
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She was weary and disappointed with all of everything.
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She was regal as a queen. Eager as a child. Proud as a cat. And she was like none of those things. Nothing like them. Not in the least little bit.
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My bad luck got tangled up with my bad decisions, and I'm paying for it.
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He shrugged, facing the fire. But we are all creatures of habit. It is far too easy to stay in the familiar ruts we dig for ourselves.
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the room grew unnaturally quiet. Kote stood with his back to the room, a stillness in his body and a terrible silence clenched between his teeth.
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Nothing but the truth could break me. What is harder than the truth?
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Answers were always important, but they were seldom easy.
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Sleep offers us a retreat from the world and all its pain. Sleep marks passing time, giving us distance from the things that have hurt us.
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She was of the Fae. She did not worry over right or wrong. She was a creature of pure desire, much like a child.
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It's hard to long for something that is always there.
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I'll string a fiddle with your guts and make you play it while I dance.
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Soon. She knew. Soon he would come visiting. Incarnadine and sweet and sad and broken. Just like her.
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A poet is a musician who can't sing. Words have to find a man's mind before they can touch his heart, and some men's minds are woeful small targets.
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To really fear something you have to dwell on it.
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Need to go chase the wind for a while, you are too serious.
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I'm not officially a collector, but I have a strange attraction and a weakness for keys and coins. Old keys and interesting coins.
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What what," Trapis said as he hurried over to tend to her, his bare feet slapping on the floor. "What what. Hush hush.
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As I lay there, I realized I had been wrong before, this was the most wonderful moment of my life.
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Pride and folly, they go together like two tightly grasping hands.
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I was the kid who was too geeky for the other kids.
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Cease these sweet words," I protested. "You seek to bend me to your will, but it will not work. Your flattery is naught to me but wind!
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Cruelty never helped the turning of the world.
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I can sell anything to anyone. That is actually my superpower. I am really good at negotiating and persuading.
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I'm pretty good at putting up drywall and I'm an excellent kisser. That's pretty much all of my skills right there.
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Money is nice, but the world is full of things that people would never sell. Favors and obligation are worth far, far more.
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Damn chicken. Come eat your dinner. I'm cold.
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Why would I want to win anything other than a beautiful game?
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But to love something despite. To know the flaws and love them too. This is rare and pure and perfect.
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When do you bleed a patient?"The question brought me up short. "When I want him to die?" I asked dubiously. — Patrick Rothfuss
You have to be a bit of a liar to tell a story the right way.
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For without hope, what do any of us have?
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Distrust turns quickly to dislike
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I think the best part of being an author is that I get to learn about anything I want and explain it away as research.
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...unwise love is the truest love.
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It will be worth it if I am remembered, if not flatteringly, then at least with some small amount of accuracy.
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Keys were hardly known for their complacency,
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Character is half the reason we read. We're excited because of the plot, but we care because of the characters.
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It gets tiresome being spoken to as if you are a child, even if you happen to be one.
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It's as if Tempi brought home a dog that can whistle. The fact that you are out of tune stands quite beside the point." Vashet
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It took him a long, miserable time before he realized the truth of things: There is a great deal of difference between a penis and a heart.
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He barely even owned his own name, and even that had been worn thin and threadbare through the years.
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I can't count the men who have tried to seduce me away from my virtue by teaching me how to defend it.
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Some days simply lay on you like stones.
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