Haldea

“I brought you a ring." It was made of warm, smooth wood. "What does it do?" I asked. "It keeps secrets," she said. I held it to my ear, Auri shook her head seriously, her hair swirling around her. "It doesn't tell them, it keeps them." She stepped close to me and took the ring, sliding it onto my finder. "It's quite enough to have a secret," she chided me gently. "Anything more would be greedy.”
― Patrick Rothfuss, The Name of the Wind

“People don't listen to karaoke, they endure it until it is their turn. It is the singularly most self-indulgent form of entertainment available.”
― Will Ferguson, Hokkaido Highway Blues: Hitchhiking Japan

“Against the coming in of evil I may do much,' she answered. 'But against the going out of those who will go, nothing.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Children of Hurin / The Silmarillion / Unfinished Tales

“I did nothing wrong. All I did was break the law.”
― Haruki Murakami, 1Q84