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"The stories we tell have power, of course. But the stories that go untold have just as much power, if not more. I will sing you such a story - a story that was long untold. The story of a name and its meaning. Of how that name matters more than any other single word in existence. But I must prepare myself, for such stories are dragons drawn from a deep well in a dark place. Does one summon a dragon? No. One may only invite it and hope it emerges. So. Tonight."
Kote to Chronicler
"You may as well ask why the axle of a planet doesn't squeak, or where love goes, or what sound yellow makes."
Master Elodin
Reasons why Bast is totally Kvothe’s dad:
- Arliden asked Laurian if she had intercourse with a Fae nine months before Kvothe’s birth
- Bast pretends to be a student but is clearly annoyed when Kote tries to actually teach him
- Reshi is short for “Little Shit” with a weird Fae accent
- Bast is horrified when Kote implies the babe in the bar is Bast’s
- Bast always protects Kote
"You're reckless, vain, and too clever by half. You suffer from the delusion that your prevarications are charming.”
Devi to Kvothe
Kvothe: Hey guys, here’s my new song
I don't look for trouble But trouble looks for me And it's been waiting around corners Since I was seventeen They say "Here comes a hurricane Trouble is his middle name!" But I don't look for trouble Yeah trouble looks for me Hey hey!
(x)
She’s still alive - an eccentric ex-scolar. You find people like that on the fringes of scholarship - genuinely brilliant, sometimes - but cracked, you know, possessed by some crazy idea that has no basis in reality, but which seems to them to hold the key to understanding the whole cosmos. I’ve seen it more than once - tragic, really.
- Master Mandrag about Auri (with Elodin rolling his eyes in the distance)
"I am not going to tell you my name, not yet at any rate. For one thing, it would take a long while: my name is growing all the time, and I've lived a very long, long time; so my name is like a story. Real names tell you the story of things they belong to."
Elodin to Kvothe
In this way I found myself on the road again, and the previously lengthy list of folks who did not like me grew even longer.
Kvothe, at literally any point of the story
