Quotes from book
The Name of the Wind
The Name of the Wind, also called The Kingkiller Chronicle: Day One, is a heroic fantasy novel written by American author Patrick Rothfuss. It is the first book in the ongoing fantasy trilogy The Kingkiller Chronicle, followed by The Wise Man's Fear. It was published on March 27, 2007 by DAW Books.
Source: The Name of the Wind (2007), Chapter 49, “The Nature of Wild Things” (p. 354)
Source: The Name of the Wind (2007), Chapter 63, “Walking and Talking” (p. 468)
“That was another lesson I had learned perhaps too well: people meant pain.”
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“I'll string a fiddle with your guts and make you play it while I dance.”
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“Someone's parents have been singing entirely the wrong sort of songs.”
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“Isn't that the way of the world? We want the sweet things, but we need the unpleasant ones.”
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Source: The Name of the Wind (2007), Chapter 32, “Coppers, Cobblers and Crowds” (p. 227)
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.
Source: The Name of the Wind
“Power is okay, and stupidity is usually harmless. Power and stupidity together are dangerous".”
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