“Upon him I will visit famine and a fire.
Till all around him desolation rings
And all the demons in the outer dark
Look on amazed and recognize
That vengeance is the business of a man.”

— Patrick Rothfuss , book The Name of the Wind

Source: The Name of the Wind (2007), Chapter 43, “The Flickering Way” (p. 323)

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