Don’t get me wrong, magic is cool. But a nervous mother singing to her child at night while something moves quietly through the dark outside her house? That’s a story. Handled properly, it’s more dramatic than any apocalypse or goblin army could ever be.
Then he turned it the third time, and the boy’s ass fell off.
Some of my Arcanum bunkmates taught me a card game called dogs-breath. I returned the favor by giving an impromptu lesson in psychology, probability, and manual dexterity. I won almost two whole talents before they stopped inviting me back to their games.
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.
The Chancellor looked down at the empty table for a minute. Then he shrugged, looked up, and gave a surprisingly jaunty smile. “All in favor of admitting first-term Kvothe’s reckless use of sympathy as proof of mastery of basic principles of sympathy vote by show of hands.
Looters become looted, while time and tide make us mercenaries all.
We love what we love. Reason does not enter into it.
Un hombre no debe ponerle nunca la mano encima a una mujer, salvo por amor.
De modo que esa es la diferencia entre contar una historia y estar dentro una historia: el miedo.
If you want to know the truth of who you are, walk until not a person knows your name. Travel is the great leveler, the great teacher, bitter as medicine, crueler than mirror-glass. A long stretch of road will teach you more about yourself than a hundred years of quiet introspection.
A Tinker’s Debt is Always Paid: Once for a simple trade. Twice for freely given aid. Thrice for any insult made.
Power is okay, and stupidity is usually harmless. Power and stupidity together are dangerous”.
As I lay there, I realized I had been wrong before, this was the most wonderful moment of my life.
Vashet shook a finger and cuffed the young girl on the side of her head. It was the same scolding any child receives. Stay out of the neighbor’s garden. Don’t tease the Bentons’ sheep. Don’t play tag among the thousand spinning knives of your people’s sacred tree.
What I personally knew about courting women could comfortably fit into a thimble without taking it off your finger first.
Los nombres dan forma al mundo, y un hombre que puede pronunciarlos va camino del poder.
Todos los hombres sabios temen tres cosas: la tormenta en el mar, la noche sin luna y la ira de un hombre apacible.
Don’t put beets in the soup, Reshi. They’re foul.
But a leader is not a muscle. A leader is a mind.
In the future, when Joss Whedon and I are best friends and hanging out together in my tree fort, I hope Neil Gaiman comes over too.