"The Name of the Wind" Quotes
A gifted young musician recounts his extraordinary life and the events leading to his current status as an innkeeper.
fantasy | 662 pages | Published in 2007
Quotes
It'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.
We understand how dangerous a mask can be. We all become what we pretend to be.
Words are pale shadows of forgotten names. As names have power, words have power. Words can light fires in the minds of men. Words can wring tears from the hardest hearts.
There are times when the mind is dealt such a blow it hides itself in insanity. While this may not seem beneficial, it is. There are times when reality is nothing but pain, and to escape that pain the mind must leave reality behind.
It's the questions we can't answer that teach us the most. They teach us how to think.
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.
There are times when the mind is dealt such a blow it hides itself in insanity. While this may not seem beneficial, it is.
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.
Words are pale shadows of forgotten names. As names have power, words have power.
