The Mad Codger quoted The Name of the Wind by Patrick Rothfuss (The Kingkiller Chronicle, #1)
My name is Kvothe.
I have stolen princesses back from sleeping barrow kings. I burned …
… [E]veryone 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.
— The Name of the Wind by Patrick Rothfuss, Patrick Rothfuss (The Kingkiller Chronicle, #1) (Page 690)