The Wise Man's Fear (Patrick Rothfuss)
- Your Highlight on Location 13318-13319 | Added on Wednesday, January 10, 2024 3:52:07 PM
It’s like spitting poison in someone’s ear. It simply isn’t done.”
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The Wise Man's Fear (Patrick Rothfuss)
- Your Highlight on Location 13475-13477 | Added on Wednesday, January 10, 2024 9:19:16 PM
Looking around the room again, everything seemed terribly ridiculous. These people sitting on their benches, wearing layers on layers of clothing, eating with knives and forks. It all struck me as so pointless and contrived. It was incredibly funny. It was like they were playing a game and didn’t even realize it. It was like a joke I’d never understood before.
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The Wise Man's Fear (Patrick Rothfuss)
- Your Highlight on Location 13580-13580 | Added on Wednesday, January 10, 2024 9:28:49 PM
Each woman is like an instrument, waiting to be learned, loved, and finely played, to have at last her own true music made.
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The Wise Man's Fear (Patrick Rothfuss)
- Your Highlight on Location 13600-13601 | Added on Friday, January 12, 2024 12:13:59 AM
There is something powerfully beguiling about the excited eyes of a young woman. They can pull all manner of nonsense out of a foolish young man, and I was no exception to this rule.
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The Wise Man's Fear (Patrick Rothfuss)
- Your Highlight on Location 14038-14039 | Added on Sunday, January 14, 2024 1:59:00 AM
At best he is a fool. At worst a liar and a thief.” “And what he said today?” Shehyn asked. “A dog can bark three times without counting.”
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The Wise Man's Fear (Patrick Rothfuss)
- Your Highlight on Location 14363-14364 | Added on Sunday, January 14, 2024 11:29:02 PM
After I’d finished, Vashet stood stroking her chin. “Well,” she said slowly. “It certainly could be worse . . .” I felt a flicker of pride until she continued. “You could, for instance, be missing a leg.”
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The Wise Man's Fear (Patrick Rothfuss)
- Your Highlight on Location 16245-16246 | Added on Saturday, January 27, 2024 12:15:07 AM
“There can be many opinions on a thing, but there is only one truth.” Vashet smiled lazily. “And if the pursuit of truth was my goal, that would concern me.”
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The Wise Man's Fear (Patrick Rothfuss)
- Your Highlight on Location 16323-16324 | Added on Saturday, January 27, 2024 12:23:51 AM
Trying to find someone who speaks your name once is like tracking a man through a forest from a single footprint.”
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The Wise Man's Fear (Patrick Rothfuss)
- Your Highlight on Location 16364-16366 | Added on Saturday, January 27, 2024 12:28:31 AM
No man is brave that has never walked a hundred miles. If you want to know the truth of who you are, walk until not a person knows your name. Travel is the great leveler, the great teacher, bitter as medicine, crueler than mirror-glass. A long stretch of road will teach you more about yourself than a hundred years of quiet introspection.”
The Wise Man's Fear (Patrick Rothfuss)
- Your Highlight on Location 13206-13208 | Added on Tuesday, September 19, 2023 11:04:33 PM
He beats her, you know. Her patron. Not all the time, but often. Sometimes in a temper, but mostly it’s a game to him. How far can he go before she cries? How far can he push before she tries to leave and he has to lure her back again? It’s nothing grotesque, mind you. No burns. Nothing that will leave a scar. Not yet.
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The Wise Man's Fear (Patrick Rothfuss)
- Your Highlight on Location 13211-13213 | Added on Tuesday, September 19, 2023 11:05:10 PM
“Poor girl, she’s tied to him so tight. Thinks that’s all she’s good for. Wouldn’t leave him even if you asked. Which you won’t. You, so careful. So scared of startling her away. And well you should be too. She’s a runner, that one.
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The Wise Man's Fear (Patrick Rothfuss)
- Your Highlight on Location 13214-13216 | Added on Tuesday, September 19, 2023 11:05:35 PM
She was just beginning to trust you before that. Before you got angry. Before you ran off. Just like every other man in her life. Just like every other man. Lusting after her, full of sweet words, then just walking away. Leaving her alone. Good thing she’s used to it by now, isn’t it?
The Wise Man's Fear (Patrick Rothfuss)
- Your Highlight on Location 478-479 | Added on Saturday, April 22, 2023 10:22:00 AM
“I’ll do what I can.” “That’s all any of us can do,” Bast said,
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The Wise Man's Fear (Patrick Rothfuss)
- Your Highlight on Location 495-495 | Added on Saturday, April 22, 2023 10:24:10 AM
said. “The Orrisons are selling some mutton
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The Wise Man's Fear (Patrick Rothfuss)
- Your Highlight on Location 499-500 | Added on Saturday, April 22, 2023 10:25:02 AM
The boy gave a smile that was a strange mix of grin and grim.
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The Wise Man's Fear (Patrick Rothfuss)
- Your Highlight on Location 598-600 | Added on Saturday, April 22, 2023 10:35:29 AM
“Frankly, I’m surprised you’d be willing to risk your life here just to keep the boy out of the army.” “Not much of a risk,” the innkeeper said. “It’s not much of a
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The Wise Man's Fear (Patrick Rothfuss)
- Your Highlight on Location 783-787 | Added on Saturday, April 22, 2023 10:59:51 AM
She grinned. “I have an apple that thinks it is a pear,” she said, holding it up. “And a bun that thinks it is a cat. And a lettuce that thinks it is a lettuce.” “It’s a clever lettuce then.” “Hardly,” she said with a delicate snort. “Why would anything clever think it was a lettuce?” “Even if it is a lettuce?” I asked. “Especially then,” she said. “Bad enough to be a lettuce. How awful to think you are a lettuce too.”
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The Wise Man's Fear (Patrick Rothfuss)
- Your Highlight on Location 857-857 | Added on Saturday, April 22, 2023 11:10:28 AM
Manet. His wild grey hair and habitually rumpled
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The Wise Man's Fear (Patrick Rothfuss)
- Your Highlight on Location 917-918 | Added on Saturday, April 22, 2023 11:17:47 AM
“Fault isn’t the issue. A tree doesn’t make a thunderstorm, but any fool knows where lightning’s going to strike.”
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The Wise Man's Fear (Patrick Rothfuss)
- Your Highlight on Location 1015-1016 | Added on Sunday, April 23, 2023 12:12:21 AM
All except her eyes. They were dark and deep, the color of coffee and chocolate. Her eyes were dancing with amusement, full of laughter.
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The Wise Man's Fear (Patrick Rothfuss)
- Your Highlight on Location 1172-1174 | Added on Sunday, April 23, 2023 12:35:50 AM
So yes. 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.
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The Wise Man's Fear (Patrick Rothfuss)
- Your Highlight on Location 2705-2708 | Added on Sunday, April 30, 2023 4:00:05 PM
“You can divide infinity an infinite number of times, and the resulting pieces will still be infinitely large,” Uresh said in his odd Lenatti accent. “But if you divide a non-infinite number an infinite number of times the resulting pieces are non-infinitely small. Since they are non-infinitely small, but there are an infinite number of them, if you add them back together, their sum is infinite.
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The Wise Man's Fear (Patrick Rothfuss)
- Your Highlight on Location 2705-2708 | Added on Sunday, April 30, 2023 4:00:11 PM
“You can divide infinity an infinite number of times, and the resulting pieces will still be infinitely large,” Uresh said in his odd Lenatti accent. “But if you divide a non-infinite number an infinite number of times the resulting pieces are non-infinitely small. Since they are non-infinitely small, but there are an infinite number of them, if you add them back together, their sum is infinite. This implies any number is, in fact, infinite.”
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The Wise Man's Fear (Patrick Rothfuss)
- Your Highlight on Location 2775-2775 | Added on Sunday, April 30, 2023 4:06:48 PM
This was always the way of it. I only seemed to be able to find her after I’d given up hope.
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The Wise Man's Fear (Patrick Rothfuss)
- Your Highlight on Location 4281-4282 | Added on Wednesday, May 10, 2023 6:45:52 AM
“That’s the problem,” I said. “He’s nice. He’s gentle, which people see as weak. And he’s happy, which people see as stupid.”
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The Wise Man's Fear (Patrick Rothfuss)
- Your Highlight on Location 4560-4563 | Added on Wednesday, May 10, 2023 7:26:47 AM
Let me say this. It was worth the whole awful, irritating time spent searching the Archives just to watch that moment happen. It was worth blood and the fear of death to see her fall in love with him. Just a little. Just the first faint breath of love, so light she probably didn’t notice it herself. It wasn’t dramatic, like some bolt of lightning with a crack of thunder following. It was more like when flint strikes steel and the spark fades almost too fast for you to see. But still, you know it’s there, down where you can’t see, kindling.
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The Wise Man's Fear (Patrick Rothfuss)
- Your Highlight on Location 4559-4559 | Added on Wednesday, May 10, 2023 7:26:53 AM
This time when she looked, she actually saw him.
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The Wise Man's Fear (Patrick Rothfuss)
- Your Highlight on Location 7081-7082 | Added on Thursday, May 25, 2023 10:48:54 PM
“Caution suits an arcanist. Assurance suits a namer. Fear does not suit either. It does not suit you.”
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The Wise Man's Fear (Patrick Rothfuss)
- Your Highlight on Location 7090-7094 | Added on Thursday, May 25, 2023 10:50:11 PM
He looked out over the water for a long time before he answered. “It is an edge,” he said at last. “It is a high place with a chance of falling. Things are more easily seen from edges. Danger rouses the sleeping mind. It makes some things clear. Seeing things is a part of being a namer.” “What about falling?” I asked. “If you fall, you fall,” Elodin shrugged. “Sometimes falling teaches us things too. In dreams you often fall before you wake.”
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The Wise Man's Fear (Patrick Rothfuss)
- Your Highlight on Location 7209-7210 | Added on Thursday, May 25, 2023 11:01:17 PM
“Remember: There are three things all wise men fear: the sea in storm, a night with no moon, and the anger of a gentle man.”
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The Wise Man's Fear (Patrick Rothfuss)
- Your Highlight on Location 9081-9086 | Added on Sunday, June 18, 2023 1:06:32 AM
“Sometimes I leave,” she said at last. “Quick and quiet in the night.” Denna didn’t look at me as she spoke, keeping her dark eyes fixed on the city below. “It’s what I do,” she continued, her voice quiet. “I leave. No word or warning first. No explanation after. Sometimes it’s the only thing that I can do.” She turned to meet my eyes then, her face serious in the dim light. “I hope you know without my telling you,” she said. “I hope I don’t need to say it. . . .” Denna turned back to look at the glimmering lights below. “But for what it’s worth, I am sorry.”
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The Wise Man's Fear (Patrick Rothfuss)
- Your Highlight on Location 9109-9112 | Added on Sunday, June 18, 2023 2:28:16 AM
Denna, on the other hand, had never been trained. She knew nothing of shortcuts. You’d think she’d be forced to wander the city, lost and helpless, trapped in a twisting maze of mortared stone. But instead, she simply walked through the walls. She didn’t know any better. Nobody had ever told her she couldn’t. Because of this, she moved through the city like some faerie creature. She walked roads no one else could see, and it made her music wild and strange and free.
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The Wise Man's Fear (Patrick Rothfuss)
- Your Highlight on Location 9529-9534 | Added on Wednesday, June 21, 2023 12:16:34 AM
There are secrets of the mouth and secrets of the heart. Most secrets are secrets of the mouth. Gossip shared and small scandals whispered. These secrets long to be let loose upon the world. A secret of the mouth is like a stone in your boot. At first you’re barely aware of it. Then it grows irritating, then intolerable. Secrets of the mouth grow larger the longer you keep them, swelling until they press against your lips. They fight to be let free. Secrets of the heart are different. They are private and painful, and we want nothing more than to hide them from the world. They do not swell and press against the mouth. They live in the heart, and the longer they are kept, the heavier they become.
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The Wise Man's Fear (Patrick Rothfuss)
- Your Highlight on Location 11520-11523 | Added on Thursday, August 3, 2023 12:17:48 AM
“That is a folding house unless I miss my guess. Quite a nice one too.” “What’s a folding house?” “You know how you can fold a piece of paper on itself, and each time it gets smaller?” the old man gestured at the piece of crooked wood. “A folding house is like that. Except it’s a house, of course.”
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The Wise Man's Fear (Patrick Rothfuss)
- Your Highlight on Location 12758-12760 | Added on Monday, August 28, 2023 11:35:30 PM
It wasn’t that she spoke with authority. Her voice was too soft and edgeless to carry the weight of command. She did not demand or cajole. When she spoke, it was matter-of-fact. As if she couldn’t imagine a world in which you didn’t want to do exactly as she said.
