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Any student of mine must be able to defend his ideas against an attack. No matter how you spend your life, your wit will defend you more often than a sword. Keep it sharp!
The Name of the Wind (2007)
Fear tends to come from ignorance. Once I knew what the problem was, it was just a problem, nothing to fear.
The Name of the Wind (2007)
Wilem tapped Simmon’s shoulder. “He’s telling the truth.”
Simmon glanced over at him. “Why do you say that?”
“He sounds more sincere than that when he lies.”
The Name of the Wind (2007)
She knew better than anyone, it was worth doing things the proper way.
The Slow Regard of Silent Things (2014)
In my opinion, he's a saint. If I had to deal with that level of fan dickishness, I would have already lost my shit in some spectacular way.
On the rare occasion I miss the news and feel the need to absorb some fearmongering bullshit, I just drop a tab of acid and read a Lovecraft story. There's less pretense that way.
She indulged herself from time to time. It helped remind her she was truly free.
The Slow Regard of Silent Things (2014)
A tinker’s debt is always paid:
Once for any simple trade.
Twice for freely given aid.
Thrice for any insult made.
The Name of the Wind (2007)
Call a jack a jack. Call a spade a spade. But always call a whore a lady. Their lives are hard enough, and it never hurts to be polite.
The Name of the Wind (2007)
Like all boys my age, I was an idiot when it came to women.
The Name of the Wind (2007)
It’s hard to be wrongfully accused, but it’s worse when the people looking down on you are clods who have never read a book or traveled more than twenty miles from the place they were born.
The Name of the Wind (2007)
That’s why stories appeal to us. They give us the clarity and simplicity our real lives lack.
The Name of the Wind (2007)
But for half a minute she wished it was a different sort of day, even though she knew that nothing good could come from wanting at the world.
The Slow Regard of Silent Things (2014)
So you went looking for a myth and found a man.
The Name of the Wind (2007)
That’s a whole new type of stupid.
The Name of the Wind (2007)
When we are children we seldom think of the future. This innocence leaves us free to enjoy ourselves as few adults can. The day we fret about the future is the day we leave our childhood behind.
The Name of the Wind (2007)
It was just as Mandrag said: Nine tenths of alchemy was chemistry. And nine tenths of chemistry was waiting.
The Slow Regard of Silent Things (2014)
It was better to be gentle and polite. It was the worst sort of selfishness to force yourself upon the world.
The Slow Regard of Silent Things (2014)
“Trouble,” he chuckled. “What does a boy like you know about trouble? I was in trouble afore you were born. I been in trouble you don’t even got words for.”
The Name of the Wind (2007)
Upon him I will visit famine and a fire.
Till all around him desolation rings
And all the demons in the outer dark
Look on amazed and recognize
That vengeance is the business of a man.
The Name of the Wind (2007)