“Finding a woman like that amidst the herd of half-feeling, half-caring, half-responding, females in our society of 1860's England was not so much like finding a diamond in the rough as it was finding a warm responsive body amidst the cold dead forms on slabs in the Paris morgue that Dickens had so enjoyed taking me to.”
― Drood
― Drood
“You are crying! You are afraid of me! And yet I am not really wicked. Love me and you shall see! All I wanted was to be loved for myself.”
― The Phantom of the Opera
― The Phantom of the Opera
“in my opinion if you have a secret compartment in your lute case and don't use it to hide things, there is something terribly, terribly wrong with you.”
― The Wise Man's Fear
― The Wise Man's Fear
“I'll string a fiddle with your guts and make you play it while I dance.”
― The Name of the Wind
― The Name of the Wind
“Vashet: “I will admit, I’ve never had a studen offer himself up for a vicious beating in order to prove he’s worth my time.”
Kvothe: “That was nothing. Once I jumped off a roof.”
― The Wise Man's Fear
Kvothe: “That was nothing. Once I jumped off a roof.”
― The Wise Man's Fear
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