Die Furcht des Weisen / Band 1: Die Königsmörder-Chronik. Zweiter Tag

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

...sometimes the best help a person can find is helping someone else.

Languages are like musical instruments: the more you know, the easier it is to pick up new ones.

“You’ve deduced a universal truth: things are usually unfair.”

“Life is a little grim, Bast,” Kvothe said without any hint of laughter in his voice. “You’d best start getting used to it.”

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.

Are things as bad as they seem? Or have I just gotten old like my da, and now everything tastes a little bitter compared to when I was a boy?