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“I don't mind being called a liar. I am. I am a marvelous liar. But I hate being called a liar when I´m telling the perfect truth.”
― Patrick Rothfuss, The Wise Man's Fear

“Teccam explains there are two types of secrets. There are secrets of the mouth and secrets of the heart.

Most secrets are secrets of the mouth. Gossip shared and small scandals whispered. There secrets long to be let loose upon the world. A secret of the mouth is like a stone in your boot. At first you’re barely aware of it. Then it grows irritating, then intolerable. Secrets of the mouth grow larger the longer you keep them, swelling until they press against your lips. They fight to be let free.

Secrets of the heart are different. They are private and painful, and we want nothing more than to hide them from the world. They do not swell and press against the mouth. They live in the heart, and the longer they are kept, the heavier they become.

Teccam claims it is better to have a mouthful of poison than a secret of the heart. Any fool will spit out poison, he says, but we hoard these painful treasures. We swallow hard against them every day, forcing them deep inside us. They they sit, growing heavier, festering. Given enough time, they cannot help but crush the heart that holds them.”
― Patrick Rothfuss, The Wise Man's Fear

“Absence feeds affection.”
― Patrick Rothfuss, The Wise Man's Fear

“Nothing travels faster than the speed of light, with the possible exception of bad news, which obeys its own special laws.”
― Douglas Adams, Mostly Harmless

“Memories are dangerous things. You turn them over and over, until you know every touch and corner, but still you'll find an edge to cut you.”
― Mark Lawrence, Prince of Thorns

“No half measures. Some things can’t be cut in half. You can’t half-love someone. You can’t half-betray, or half-lie.”
― Mark Lawrence, Emperor of Thorns

“Hold to a thing long enough, a secret, a desire, maybe a lie, and it will shape you.”
― Mark Lawrence

“Humanity can be divided into madmen and cowards. My personal tragedy is in being born into a world where sanity is held to be a character flaw.”
― Mark Lawrence, Prince of Fools

“It is impossible to live without failing at something, unless you live so cautiously that you might as well not have lived at all—in which case, you fail by default.”
― J.K. Rowling

“Some days simply lay on you like stones.”
― Patrick Rothfuss, The Slow Regard of Silent Things

“But sometimes the best help a person can find is helping someone else.”
― Patrick Rothfuss, The Wise Man's Fear

“Too much honesty makes you sound insincere.”
― Patrick Rothfuss, The Name of the Wind

“I can't give you the moon,” the tinker said. “She doesn't belong to me. She belongs only to herself.”
― Patrick Rothfuss, The Wise Man's Fear

“I learned to love the feel of good words.”
― Patrick Rothfuss, The Name of the Wind

“She was a wicked thing sometimes. All full of want. As if the shape of the world depended on her mood. As if she were important.”
― Patrick Rothfuss, The Slow Regard of Silent Things

“I've always liked the moonless night best. It's easier to say things in the dark. It's easier to be yourself.”
― Patrick Rothfuss, The Wise Man's Fear

“It was more exciting when I didn't know I had permission.”
― Patrick Rothfuss, The Wise Man's Fear

“All explicit knowledge is translated knowledge, and all translation is imperfect.”
― Patrick Rothfuss, The Wise Man's Fear

“...if I have ever met someone without a single shadow on their heart, it was surely a child too young for speaking.”
― Patrick Rothfuss, The Wise Man's Fear

“Sometimes leaving is the only thing you can do.”
― Patrick Rothfuss, The Wise Man's Fear

“You did not want things for yourself. That made you small.”
― Patrick Rothfuss, The Slow Regard of Silent Things

“We love what we love. Reason does not enter into it.”
― Patrick Rothfuss

“She knew. She knew how quickly things could break. You did the things you could. You tended to the world for the world’s sake. You hoped you would be safe. But still she knew. It could come crashing down and there was nothing you could do.”
― Patrick Rothfuss, The Slow Regard of Silent Things

“If you want to know what a man's like, take a good look at how he treats his inferiors, not his equals.”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire

“When you love something, you have to make sure it loves you back, or you'll bring about no end of trouble chasing it.”
― Patrick Rothfuss, The Wise Man's Fear

“We all become what we pretend to be.”
― Patrick Rothfuss, The Name of the Wind

“But no. There is a difference between the truth and what we wish were true.”
― Patrick Rothfuss, The Slow Regard of Silent Things

“I am no poet. I do not love words for the sake of words. I love words for what they can accomplish. Similarly, I am no arithmetician. Numbers that speak only of numbers are of little interest to me.”
― Patrick Rothfuss, The Wise Man's Fear

“If you hide your ignorance, no one will hit you and you'll never learn.”
― Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451

“All the truth in the world is held in stories.”
― Patrick Rothfuss, The Wise Man's Fear