“I’d heard you were dead.”
"I heard you wear a red lace corset,” I said matter-of-factly. “But I don’t believe every bit of nonsense that gets rumored about.”

— Patrick Rothfuss, book The Wise Man's Fear

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American fantasy writer 1973

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