“It’s not over if you’re still here,” Chronicler said. “It’s not a tragedy if you’re still alive.”
Bast nodded eagerly at this, looking back at Kvothe.
Kvothe looked at both of them for a moment, then smiled and chuckled low in his chest. “Oh,” he said fondly. “You’re both so young.”
― The Wise Man's Fear
Bast nodded eagerly at this, looking back at Kvothe.
Kvothe looked at both of them for a moment, then smiled and chuckled low in his chest. “Oh,” he said fondly. “You’re both so young.”
― The Wise Man's Fear
“The Lethani is the same everywhere,” she said firmly. “It is not like the wind, changing from place to place.”
“The Lethani is like water,” I responded without thinking. “It is itself unchanging, but it shapes itself to fit all places. It is both the river and the rain.”
She glared at me. “Who are you to say the Lethani is like one thing and not another?”
“Who are you to do the same?”
― The Wise Man's Fear
“The Lethani is like water,” I responded without thinking. “It is itself unchanging, but it shapes itself to fit all places. It is both the river and the rain.”
She glared at me. “Who are you to say the Lethani is like one thing and not another?”
“Who are you to do the same?”
― The Wise Man's Fear
“I briefly entertained the notion that I was insane and didn't know it. Then I considered the possibility that I had always been insane, acknowledged it as more likely than the former, then pushed both thoughts from my mind.”.”
― The Wise Man's Fear
― The Wise Man's Fear
“It is easier to understand if you think of it in terms of music. Sometimes a man enjoys a symphony. Elsetimes he finds a jig more suited to his taste.
The same holds true for lovemaking. One type is suited to the deep cushions of a twilight forest glade. Another comes quite naturally tangled in the sheets of narrow beds upstairs in inns. Each woman is like an instrument, waiting to be learned, loved, and finely played, to have at last her own true music made.
Some might take offense at this way of seeing things, not understanding how a trouper views his music. They might think I degrade women. They might consider me callous, or boorish, or crude.
But those people do not understand love, or music, or me.”
― The Wise Man's Fear
The same holds true for lovemaking. One type is suited to the deep cushions of a twilight forest glade. Another comes quite naturally tangled in the sheets of narrow beds upstairs in inns. Each woman is like an instrument, waiting to be learned, loved, and finely played, to have at last her own true music made.
Some might take offense at this way of seeing things, not understanding how a trouper views his music. They might think I degrade women. They might consider me callous, or boorish, or crude.
But those people do not understand love, or music, or me.”
― The Wise Man's Fear
“Wilem looked at me 'Why are you smiling?'
"I'm relieved",I said honestly." I was worried I had given myself cadmium poisoning, or had a mysterious disease.This is just someone trying to kill me.”
― The Wise Man's Fear
"I'm relieved",I said honestly." I was worried I had given myself cadmium poisoning, or had a mysterious disease.This is just someone trying to kill me.”
― The Wise Man's Fear
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