In the hours that followed, I learned that Ademic hand gestures did not actually represent facial expressions. It was nothing so simple as that. For example a smile can mean you're amused, happy, grateful, or satisfied. You can smile to comfort someone. You can smile because you're content or because you're in love. A grimace or a grin look similar to a smile, but they mean entirely different things. Imagine trying to teach someone how to smile. Imagine trying to describe what different smiles mean and when, precisely, to use them in conversation. It's harder than learning to walk.
Patrick RothfussIf you can find someone like that, someone who you can hold and close your eyes to the world with, then you're lucky.
Patrick RothfussIt gets tiresome being spoken to as if you are a child, even if you happen to be one.
Patrick Rothfuss