Cullen Threlkeld

“Durzo cleared his throat. "I've got bad news... Life being unfair and all that..."

"Oh, great. What is it?" [replied Kylar]

"Luc Graesin? Kid you died on the wheel to save?"

"It was more for Logan than for Luc, but what about Luc?"

"Hanged himself," Durzo said.

...

"Are you joking? After what I did for him? That asshole!”
― Brent Weeks, Beyond the Shadows

“I thought of all the others who had tried to tie her to the ground and failed. So I resisted showing her the songs and poems I had written, knowing that too much truth can ruin a thing. And if that meant she wasn't entirely mine, what of it? I would be the one she could always return to without fear of recrimination or question. So I did not try to win her and contented myself with playing a beautiful game. But there was always a part of me that hoped for more, and so there was a part of me that was always a fool.”
― Patrick Rothfuss, The Wise Man's Fear

“We are not always what we seem, and hardly ever what we dream.”
― Peter S. Beagle, The Last Unicorn

“It had flaws, but what does that matter when it comes to matters of the heart? We love what we love. Reason does not enter into it. In many ways, unwise love is the truest love. Anyone can love a thing because. That's as easy as putting a penny in your pocket. But to love something despite. To know the flaws and love them too. That is rare and pure and perfect.”
― Patrick Rothfuss, The Wise Man's Fear