“How odd to watch a mortal kindle / Then to dwindle day by day / Knowing their bright souls are tinder / And the wind will have its way”

—  Patrick Rothfuss , book The Wise Man's Fear

Source: The Wise Man's Fear

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American fantasy writer 1973

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