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But no. There is a difference between the truth and what we wish were true.Patrick Rothfuss
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It exhasperated her, but she knew better than to force the world to her desire.Patrick Rothfuss
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She knew the true shape of the world. All else was shadow and the sound of distant drums.Patrick Rothfuss
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I cannot help but wonder how many of us walk through our lives, day after day, feeling slightly broken and alone, surrounded all the time by others who feel exactly the same way.Patrick Rothfuss
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Answers were always important, but they were seldom easy.Patrick Rothfuss
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She was a wicked thing sometimes. All full of want. As if the shape of the world depended on her mood. As if she were important.Patrick Rothfuss
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Some days simply lay on you like stones.Patrick Rothfuss
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The gesture was so tight with rage she feared she’d snap and crack the world in two.Patrick Rothfuss
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She stamped her foot. She hoped the greedy thing shit for a week. She hoped it shit its awful self insideout and backward, then fell into a crack and lost it's name and died alone and hollow-empty in the angry dark.Patrick Rothfuss
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I love her more than just a little. I think it's because we're both somewhat broken, in our own odd ways. More importantly, we're both aware of it.Patrick Rothfuss
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But for half a minute she wished it was a different sort of day, even though she knew that nothing good could come from wanting at the world.Patrick Rothfuss
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Losing Foxen was bad. It would leave her blind and lonely in the dark. Being trapped beneath the pipes and choking out her life was awful too. But neither of those things were wrong.Patrick Rothfuss
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Oh yes. It was well worth it, doing things the proper way.Patrick Rothfuss
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She was not vain enough to work her will against the world. But she could use the things the world had given her.Patrick Rothfuss
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But for half a minute she wished it was a different sort of day, even though she knew that nothing good could come from wanting at the world. Even though she knew it was a wicked thing to do.Patrick Rothfuss
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She shelled the nuts and toasted them, jiggling them about in the pan. She sprinkled them with salt and ate them each by each. Some were bitter. Some were sweet. Some were hardly anything. That was just the way of things.Patrick Rothfuss
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Patience and propriety. It was the only graceful thing to do.Patrick Rothfuss
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There is a difference between the truth and what we wish were true.Patrick Rothfuss
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...every piece of the laughing was a tiny bird come tumbling out to fly around the room.Patrick Rothfuss
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Nothing was nothing else. Nothing was anything it shouldn’t be.Patrick Rothfuss
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They were everything they ought to be and nothing else.Patrick Rothfuss