If I'd been whoring before class and waved a corset at him, no one would have thought twice about it!

Do you just want to get by? Or do you want to make me proud?

It's not prowess if you watch 5 hours of TV a day. It's just how you choose to spend your time.

Music sounds different to the one who plays it. It is the musician's curse.

He was giving me enough rope to hang myself with. Apparently he didn't realize that once a noose is tied it will fit one neck as easily as another.

Auri took it, and peered inside the small leather sack. “Why this is lovely, Kvothe. What lives in the salt?” Trace minerals, I thought. Chromium, bassal, malium, iodine . . . everything your body needs but probably can’t get from apples and bread and whatever you manage to scrounge up when I can’t find you. “The dreams of fish,” I said. “And sailor’s songs.

Small facts lead to great knowing.