"We love what we love. Reason does not enter into it. In many ways, unwise love is the truest love. Anyone can love a thing because. That's as easy as putting a penny in your pocket. But to love something despite. To know the flaws and love them too. That is rare and pure and perfect."-
~ Kvothe, the Name of the Wind
So, I just got my book back (finally!). Anyone who knows me well enough will know that I've been pining after it for weeks now. (No, seriously, I may read fast, but three months for a nearly-700-page book? That's too much. I finished it in less than two days.) But the only thing that matters now is that I have my glorious book back, I can reread it now (and neglect my homework) and I am extremely, extremely happy about it.
:D
So now I'm just going to spam quotes. From both books. Just 'cause. ^^
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"Owls are wise. They are careful and patient. Wisdom precludes boldness. That is why owls make poor heroes."
~ Auri, Name of the Wind
"Music is a proud, temperamental mistress. Give her the time and attention she deserves, and she is yours. Slight her and there will come a day when you call and she will not answer."
~ Kvothe, Name of the Wind
“A tinker's debt is always paid:
Once for any simple trade.
Twice for freely given aid.
Thrice for any insult made.”
“What did you bring me?” I countered.
She grinned. “I have an apple that thinks its a pear. And a bun that thinks it’s a cat. And a lettuce that thinks its a lettuce.”
“It’s a clever lettuce then.”
“Hardly,” she said with a delicate snort. “Why would anything clever think it’s a lettuce?”
“Even if it is a lettuce?” I asked.
“Especially then,” she said. “Bad enough to be a lettuce. How awful to think you are a lettuce too.”
~ Kvothe and Auri, Name of the Wind
"Master Elodin, why don’t you want to teach me naming?"
"That’s the wrong question, try again."
"Why are you burning your clothes?"
"Nope. Not even close to the right question."
"Oh God, whose rooms are these?"
"Very Good. I would also have accepted, ‘Why don’t you have a key for this room?’ or ‘What are we doing in here?'"
~ Kvothe and Elodin, Wise Man's Fear
“A story is like a nut, A fool will swallow it whole and choke. A fool will throw it away, thinking it of little worth. But a wise women finds a way to crack the shell and eat all the meat inside.”
~ Vashet, Wise Man's Fear
“I briefly entertained the notion that I was insane and didn’t know it. Then I considered the possibility that I had always been insane, acknowledged it as more likely than the former, then pushed both thoughts from my mind.”
All I want is someone who likes me.”
“All I want is a clear sigh,” I said.
“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.”
~ Wil, Sim and Kvothe, Wise Man's Fear
"No man is brave that has never walked a hundred miles. If you want to know the truth of who you are, walk until not a person knows your name. Travel is the great leveler, the great teacher, bitter as medicine, crueler than mirror-glass. A long stretch of road will teach you more about yourself than a hundred years of quiet introspection."
~ Kvothe, Wise Man's Fear
"It’s just ointment in case you get burned,” he explained. “But if you mix it with piss, it turns into candy.” Sim’s expression was deadpan. “Delicious candy.”
~ Sim, Wise Man’s Fear
“And if I mix it with piss it turns into delicious candy, right?” I laughed. “Did you make a bet with Wilem about how much of this I’d swallow? Nothing becomes flammable when you mix it with water.”
[...]
Thick orange flame roared up, burning three feet high until it flickered and died. Sim set down the empty crucible with a slight click and looked at me gravely. “Say it.”
I looked down at my feet. “I know nothing about alchemy.”
~ Kvothe and Sim, Wise Man's Fear
”I also felt guilty about the three pens I’d stolen. And since there was no convenient way to give them back, I stole a bottle of ink before I left.”
Elias: “That, was a damn fine pie.”
“Don’t you cuss Elias, there’s no call for that.”
Elias: “Oh, honey, don’t get yourself in a twit. Damfine is a kind of apple, innit? Sort of foreign apple from off in Atur. They named it after Baron Damfine, if I remember correct.”
Kote: “I got these from the Bentons”
Elias: “Oh, that’s my mistake then. I’d swear it was a Damfine pie for all that. Maybe the Bentons got themselves some Damfine apples and don’t know it.”
~ Wise Man's Fear
“It was almost as if up until that point, he’d just been occupying space around her, like a piece of furniture. But this time when she looked at him, she took all of him in. His sandy hair, the line of his jaw, the span of his shoulders beneath his shirt. This time when she looked, she actually saw him.
Let me say this. It was worth the whole awful, irritating time spent searching the Archives just to watch that moment happen. It was worth blood and the fear of death to see her fall in love with him. Just a little. Just the first faint breath of love, so light she probably didn’t notice it herself. It wasn’t dramatic, like some bolt of lightning with a crack of thunder following. It was more like when flint strikes steel and the spark fades almost too fast for you to see. But still, you know it’s there, down where you can’t see, kindling.”
~ Kvothe, Wise Man's Fear
"Congratulations. That was the stupidest thing I have ever seen. Ever."
~ Elodin, Name of the Wind
"Blue! Blue! Blue!"
~ Elodin
"Wow, Uresh. Your next assignment is to have sex. If you do not know how to do this, see me after class."
~ Elodin, Wise Man's Fear
... And everything else Elodin says. LOL. God bless Pat Rothfuss for writing such awesome books. Everything is quotable. Not to mention brilliant. :)
