“You have to be a bit of a liar to tell a story the right way.”
― The Name of the Wind
― The Name of the Wind
“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.”
― The Name of the Wind
― The Name of the Wind
“You have been in every way all that anyone could be.… If anybody could have saved me it would have been you.”
― All the Bright Places
― All the Bright Places
“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.”
― The Name of the Wind
― The Name of the Wind
“The thing I realize is, that it's not what you take, it's what you leave.”
― All the Bright Places
― All the Bright Places
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