He hesitated, then lifted his head and sniffed. โHave you been drinking?โ The question was more curious than accusatory. โNo,โ Bast said. The innkeeper raised an eyebrow. โIโve been tasting,โ Bast said, emphasizing the word. โTasting comes before drinking.
Patrick RothfussBut how awful would that be? How terrible to live surrounded by the stark, sharp, hollowness of things that simply were enough?
Patrick RothfussWe try to spread the word about the charity by doing fun little stunts to catch people's attention. Like when Hank Green did a music video for us.
Patrick RothfussIt's like everyone tells a story about themselves inside their own head. Always. All the time. That story makes you what you are. We build ourselves out of that story.
Patrick RothfussI don't try to take a person out of our world and put them into my world; that wouldn't work. It's sort of like bad Photoshop: If you see something Photoshopped together - and even if it's done pretty well - the eye catches on it. That happens a lot when people try to cut and paste people from our world into their fourteenth-century historical romance novel.
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