Source: The Wise Man's Fear (2011)
Context: 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.
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Source: The Slow Regard of Silent Things
Source: The Wise Man's Fear (2011), Chapter 43, “The Flickering Way” (p. 318)
“You never do things the easy way, do you?" she said.
"There's an easy way?" I asked.”
Source: The Wise Man's Fear
“Anger can keep you warm at night, and wounded pride can spur a man to wondrous things.”
Source: The Name of the Wind
Source: The Name of the Wind
Source: The Slow Regard of Silent Things
Source: The Slow Regard of Silent Things
“Isn't that the way of the world? We want the sweet things, but we need the unpleasant ones.”
Source: The Name of the Wind
“Some things simply were too true to stay. Some merely came to visit for a while.”
Source: The Slow Regard of Silent Things
Source: The Name of the Wind (2007), Chapter 7, “Of Beginnings and the Names of Things” (p. 58)
Context: I have been called Kvothe the Bloodless, Kvothe the Arcane, and Kvothe Kingkiller. I have earned those names. Bought and paid for them.
But I was brought up as Kvothe. My father once told me it meant “to know.”
I have, of course, been called many other things. Most of them uncouth, although very few were unearned.
I have stolen princesses back from sleeping barrow kings. I burned down the town of Trebon. I have spent the night with Felurian and left with both my sanity and my life. I was expelled from the University at a younger age than most people are allowed in. I tread paths by moonlight that others fear to speak of during day. I have talked to gods, loved women, and written songs that make the minstrels weep.
You may have heard of me.
“If there is one thing I will not abide it is the folly of a willful pride.”
Source: The Name of the Wind
“There are few things as nauseating as pure obedience.”
Source: The Name of the Wind (2007), Chapter 75, “Interlude—Obedience” (p. 593)