Bill Abrams

“The truth is that the world is full of dragons, and none of us are as powerful or cool as we’d like to be. And that sucks. But when you’re confronted with that fact, you can either crawl into a hole and quit, or you can get out there, take off your shoes, and Bilbo it up.”
― Patrick Rothfuss

“The best lies about me are the ones I told.”
― Patrick Rothfuss, The Name of the Wind

“All the truth in the world is held in stories.”
― Patrick Rothfuss, The Wise Man's Fear

“If there is something comforting - religious, if you want - about paranoia, there is still also anti-paranoia, where nothing is connected to anything, a condition not many of us can bear for long.”
― Thomas Pynchon, Gravity’s Rainbow