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“I have lived a thousand lives and I’ve loved a thousand loves. I’ve walked on distant worlds and seen the end of time. Because I read.”
― George R.R. Martin

“But how awful would that be? How terrible to live surrounded by the stark, sharp, hollowness of things that simply were enough?”
― Patrick Rothfuss, The Slow Regard of Silent Things

“O conhecimento é uma aventura interminável na borda da incerteza.”
― Frank Herbert, Children of Dune

“Bien sûr je te ferai mal. Bien sûr tu me feras mal. Bien sûr nous aurons mal. Mais ça, c’est la condition de l’existence. Se faire printemps, c’est prendre le risque de l’hiver. Se faire présent, c’est prendre le risque de l’absence… C’est à mon risque de peine que je connais ma joie.”
― Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

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

“Life before Death.
Strength before Weakness.
Journey before Destination.”
― Brandon Sanderson, The Way of Kings

“And I have a tender spot in my heart for cripples and bastards and broken things.”
― George R.R. Martin, A Game of Thrones

“Não existe felicidade nem infelicidade neste mundo, o que existe é comparação entre esses dois estados, nada mais. Só aquele que passou pelo extremo infortúnio pode sentir a extrema felicidade. É preciso ter querido morrer, Maximilien, para saber como é bom viver.”
― Alexandre Dumas, O Conde de Monte Cristo

“Peace is sweet, my lady… but on what terms? It is no good hammering your sword into a plowshare if you must forge it again on the morrow.”
― George R.R. Martin, A Game of Thrones

“when air, food, and shelter are assured, only two things matter. Work and companionship. To be alone and without purpose is to be the living dead.”
― Christopher Paolini, To Sleep in a Sea of Stars

“To be so lovely and so lost. To be all answerful with all that knowing trapped inside. To be beautiful and broken.”
― Patrick Rothfuss, The Slow Regard of Silent Things

“A long stretch of road will teach you more about yourself than a hundred years of quiet introspection”
― Patrick Rothfuss

“Não há mistério na vida humana. Não é um problema a ser resolvido, mas uma realidade a ser experimentada.”
― Frank Herbert, Children of Dune

“Aqueles dentre nós que têm sido verdadeiros leitores durante toda a vida raramente compreendem de maneira plena a enorme extensão do nosso ser da qual somos devedores aos escritores. Compreendemos isso mais quando conversamos com um amigo que é um leitor não literato. Pode ser uma pessoa cheia de bondade e bom senso, mas é alguém que vive em um mundo minúsculo. Nós nos sentiríamos sufocados nesse mundo. A pessoa que está contente em ser apenas ela mesma e, portanto, menos que um "eu", está em uma prisão. Os meus olhos não são o bastante para mim. Eu vejo através dos olhos dos outros. A realidade, mesmo vista através dos olhos de muitos, não é o bastante. Eu verei o que outros inventaram. Mesmo os olhos de toda a humanidade não são suficientes. Lamento que os animais não possam escrever livros. Eu aprenderia com muita alegria qual é a imagem que as coisas têm para um rato ou para uma abelha. Mais alegre ainda ficaria se percebesse o mundo olfativo carregado com todas as informações e emoções que este mundo tem para um cão.”
― C.S. Lewis, An Experiment in Criticism

“Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”
― Oscar Wilde

“There are three things all wise men fear: the sea in storm, a night with no moon, and the anger of a gentle man.”
― Patrick Rothfuss, The Wise Man's Fear

“Deep in the human unconscious is a pervasive need for a logical universe that makes sense. But the real universe is always one step beyond logic.”
― Frank Herbert, Dune

“When you tear out a man's tongue, you are not proving him a liar, you're only telling the world that you fear what he might say.”
― George R.R. Martin, A Clash of Kings

“It's like everyone tells a story about themselves inside their own head. Always. All the time. That story makes you what you are. We build ourselves out of that story.”
― Patrick Rothfuss, The Name of the Wind

“Bones mend. Regret stays with you forever.”
― Patrick Rothfuss, The Name of the Wind

“I only know one story. But oftentimes small pieces seem to be stories themselves.”
― Patrick Rothfuss, The Name of the Wind

“No matter how you spend your life, your wit will defend you more often than a sword. Keep it sharp!”
― Patrick Rothfuss, The Name of the Wind

“Lovely as the moon: not flawless, perhaps, but perfect.”
― Patrick Rothfuss, The Name of the Wind

“There is a great difference between being fearless and being brave.”
― Patrick Rothfuss, The Name of the Wind

“Elend: I kind of lost track of time…
Breeze: For two hours?
Elend: There were books involved.”
― Brandon Sanderson, The Well of Ascension

“He ate my horse.”
― Brandon Sanderson, The Well of Ascension

“The purpose of a storyteller is not to tell you how to think, but to give you questions to think upon.”
― Brandon Sanderson, The Way of Kings

“And so, does the destination matter? Or is it the path we take? I declare that no accomplishment has substance nearly as great as the road used to achieve it. We are not creatures of destinations. It is the journey that shapes us. Our callused feet, our backs strong from carrying the weight of our travels, our eyes open with the fresh delight of experiences lived.”
― Brandon Sanderson, The Way of Kings

“To know who you are without any delusions or sympathy is a moment of revelation that no one experiences unscathed”
― Christopher Paolini, Eragon

“It was wise enough to know itself, and brave enough to BE itself, and wild enough to change itself while somehow staying altogether true.”
― Patrick Rothfuss, The Slow Regard of Silent Things