“The second was some rather bad poetry, but it was short, and I forced my way through by gritting my teeth and occasionally closing one eye so as not to damage the entirety of my brain.”
― The Wise Man's Fear
― The Wise Man's Fear
“Practice makes the master.”
― The Name of the Wind
― The Name of the Wind
“Go out in the early days of winter, after the first cold snap of the season. Find a pool of water with a sheet of ice across the top, still fresh and new and clear as glass. Near the shore the ice will hold you. Slide out farther. Farther. Eventually you'll find the place where the surface just barely bears your weight. There you will feel what I felt. The ice splinters under your feet. Look down and you can see the white cracks darting through the ice like mad, elaborate spiderwebs. It is perfectly silent, but you can feel the sudden sharp vibrations through the bottoms of your feet.
That is what happened when Denna smiled at me.”
― The Name of the Wind
That is what happened when Denna smiled at me.”
― The Name of the Wind
“The day we fret about the future is the day we leave our childhood behind.”
― The Name of the Wind
― The Name of the Wind
“We understand how dangerous a mask can be. We all become what we pretend to be.”
― The Name of the Wind
― The Name of the Wind
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