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“If I could sum it up in 50 words, I wouldn't have needed to write a whole novel about it.”

“But no. There is a difference between the truth and what we wish were true.”

“I cannot help but wonder how many of us walk through our lives, day after day, feeling slightly broken and alone, surrounded all the time by others who feel exactly the same way.”

“I'll string a fiddle with your guts and make you play it while I dance.”

“The seeds of the past bear fruit in the present.”

“I’d heard he had started a fistfight in one of the seedier local taverns because someone had insisted on saying the word “utilize” instead of “use.”

“If I seem to wander, if I seem to stray, remember that true stories seldom take the straightest way”

“I need you to breathe for me.”

“I am no poet. I do not love words for the sake of words. I love words for what they can accomplish. Similarly, I am no arithmetician. Numbers that speak only of numbers are of little interest to me.”

“Each woman is like an instrument, waiting to be learned, loved, and finely played, to have at last her own true music made.”

“All stories are true,” Skarpi said. “But this one really happened, if that’s what you mean.”

“You,” I said, “are sweet music in a distant room.”

“If your name is getting too heavy, you should have Kvothe give you a new one.”

“Someone's parents have been singing entirely the wrong sort of songs.”

“I can't give you the moon,” the tinker said. “She doesn't belong to me. She belongs only to herself.”

“She was a wicked thing sometimes. All full of want. As if the shape of the world depended on her mood. As if she were important.”

“I guess I'm destined to be loveless”

“I learned to love the feel of good words.”

“That is like throwing two virgins into a bed. Enthusiasm, passion, and ignorance are not a good combination. Someone is likely to get hurt.”

“I believe it, Chronicler found himself thinking. Before it was just a story, but now I can believe it. This is the face of a man who has killed an angel.”

“I've always liked the moonless night best. It's easier to say things in the dark. It's easier to be yourself.”

“What are the three most important rules of the chemist?"

This I knew from Ben. "Label clearly. Measure twice. Eat elsewhere.”

“My shrug was so nonchalant it would make a cat jealous”

“If you fall, you fall," Elodin shrugged. "Sometimes falling teaches us things too." In dreams you often fall before you wake.”

“I've never really understood the desire people have to quantify a baby. "He's X big and Y long," As if the baby is a fish you're not sure you're going to keep. Or some prize potato you're hoping will win a prize at the county fair.”

“Dawn was coming. The Waystone Inn lay in silence, and it was a silence of three parts.”

“Beer dulls a memory, brand sets it burning, but wine is the best for a sore heart's yearning.”

“To be both rich and handsome was bad enough. But to have a voice like honey over warm bread on top of that was simply inexcusable.”

“Feel free to call me by my first name: Master.”