“No anguish I have had to bear on your account has been too heavy a price to pay for the new life into which I have entered in loving you.”

“You have grudged the very fire in your house because the wood cost overmuch!" he cried. "You have grudged life. To live cost overmuch, and you have refused to pay the price. Your life has been like a cabin where the fire is out and there are no blankets on the floor." He signaled to a slave to fill his glass, which he held aloft. "But I have lived. And I have been warm with life as you have never been warm. It is true, you shall live long. But the longest nights are the cold nights when a man shivers and lies awake. My nights have been short, but I have slept warm”

“Everything comes at a price. Everthing in your life. The question you have to ask yourself is, what price are you willing to pay?”

“One's life is a heavy price to pay for being born.”

“If your name is getting too heavy, you should have Kvothe give you a new one.”

“But surely for everything you love you have to pay some price.”