Quotes from The Name of the Wind by Patrick Rothfuss

No mere review can sum up how much I love this book. It's flipping fantastic, and you should go read it. Ahora. 

"Words are pale shadows of forgotten names. As names have power, words have power. Words can light fires in the minds of men. Words can wring tears from the hardest hearts."

"Using words to talk of words is like using a pencil to draw a picture of itself, on itself. Impossible. Confusing. Frustrating... but there are other ways to understanding."

"Congratulations. That was the stupidest thing I've ever seen. Ever."

"I also felt guilty about the three pens I'd stolen, but only for a second. And since there was no convenient way to give them back, I stole a bottle of ink before I left."

"Only priests and fools are fearless and I've never been on the best of terms with God."

"It wasn't even a good note. 'If you are reading this, I am probably dead'. What sort of a note is that?"

"When I visited Ledgers and Lists, I discovered he only taught one class: Unlikely Maths. However, this was less than helpful in tracking him down, as according to the ledger, the time of the class was 'now' and the location was 'everywhere'."

"I felt like I'd been hit on the head with a church."

"'All stories are true,' Skarpi said. 'But this one really happened, if that's what you mean.'"

"The Waystone was his, just as the third silence was his. This was appropriate, as it was the greatest silence of the three, wrapping the others inside itself. It was deep and wide as autumn's ending. It was heavy as a great river-smooth stone. It was the patient, cut-flower sound of a man who is waiting to die."

"To deem us simply enemies is to lose the true flavor of our relationship. It was more like the two of us entered into a business partnership in order to more efficiently pursue our mutual interest of hating each other."

"'Do you know the saying chan vaen edan kote?'
I tried to puzzle it out. 'Seven years... I don't know kote.'
'Expect disaster every seven years,' he said."

"Over the last month I had pulled a woman from a blazing inferno. I had called fire and lightning down on assassins and escaped to safety. I had even killed something that could have either been a dragon or a demon, depending on your point of view. But there in that room was the first time I actually felt like any sort of hero. If you are looking for a reason for the man I would eventually become, if you are looking for a beginning, look there."