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“In fact, Kote himself seemed rather sickly. Not exactly unhealthy, but hollow. Wan. Like a plant that’s been moved into the wrong sort of soil and, lacking something vital, has begun to wilt.”
― Patrick Rothfuss, The Name of the Wind

“Take two pictures representing the same subject; one may be dismissed as illustration if it is dominated by the subject and has no other justification but the subject, the other may be called painting if the subject is completely absorbed in the style, which is its own justification, whatever the subject, and has an intrinsic value.”
― Jeff VanderMeer, City of Saints and Madmen

“I hate complaining to strangers -- you can only complain satisfactorily to people you know really well.”
― Ursula K. Le Guin, Changing Planes

“RATS. In sewers. In religions. In words like pirate, desperate, and narrative. Rats infest this glossary as surely as words and mushrooms.”
― Jeff VanderMeer, City of Saints and Madmen