“The Waystone was his, just as the third silence was his. This was appropriate, as it was the greatest silence of the three, wrapping the others inside itself. It was deep and wide as autumn’s ending. It was heavy as a great river-smooth stone. It was the patient, cut-flower sound of a man who is waiting to die.”

American author

Patrick James Rothfuss is an American author best known for The Kingkiller Chronicle. His debut novel, The Name of the Wind, was published in 2007 and won several awards. He followed it with The Wise Man's Fear in 2011, the second book in the series, which reached the top of The New York Times Best Seller list. His work is known for the fantasy world and storytelling of that series.