Patrick Rothfuss, The Name Of The Wind Quotes
When we are children we seldom think of the future. This innocence leaves us free to enjoy ourselves as few adults can. The day we fret about the future is the day we leave our childhood behind.
Words are pale shadows of forgotten names. As names have power, words have power. Words can light fires in the minds of men. Words can wring tears from the hardest hearts.
It's like everyone 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.
Only priests and fools are fearless and I've never been on the best of terms with God.
Using words to talk of words is like using a pencil to draw a picture of itself, on itself. Impossible. Confusing. Frustrating ... but there are other ways to understanding.
She taught me I should never do anything in private I did not want talked about in public, and cautioned me not to talk in my sleep.
Beer dulls a memory, brand sets it burning, but wine is the best for a sore heart's yearning.
It's hard to be wrongfully accused, but it's worse when the people looking down on you are clods who have never read a book or traveled more than twenty miles from the place they were born.
I can't count the men who have tried to seduce me away from my virtue by teaching me how to defend it.
No hard feelings about that time in the Crucible when you mixed my salts and I was nearly blind for a day. No. No, really, drink up!
Fear tends to come from ignorance. Once I knew what the problem was, it was just a problem, nothing to fear.
He had a bright, reckless tenor that was always wandering off, looking for notes in the wrong places.
I only know one story. But oftentimes small pieces seem to be stories themselves.
It's quite enough to have a secret. Anything more would be greedy.
Are you hurt?""Absolutely, " I said. "Especially in my everywhere.
The day we fret about the future is the day we leave our chilhood behind.
She washed he hands, then looked at my side. "you haven't even had it stitched?" She said incredulously."I've been rather busy, " I said. "With the running like hell and hiding all night.
Congratulations, he said. "That was the stupidest thing I've ever seen." His expression was a mix of awe and disbelief. "Ever.
Do you know why they call this place the Rookery?" Elodin asked. I shook my head."Because it's where you go if you're a-ravin'." He smiled a wild smile. He laughed a terrible laugh.
One wife, you're happy, two and you're tired, three and they'll hate each other, four and they'll hate you.
Yesterday he had limped, but today there was no part of his feet that didn't hurt, so limping did no good.
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.
If not for him, I would never have become the man I am today. I ask that you not hold it against him. He meant well
I don't care whose son he is. I won't go belly-up like a timid pup. If he's fool enough to take a poke at me, I'll snap the finger clean off that does the poking.
I realize that I cannot say enough. So. Since I cannot say enough, at least I will avoid saying to much".
His voice is like a thunderstorm, and his hands know every secret hidden deep beneath the cool, dark earth.
I tread paths by moonlight that others fear to speak of during day.
It will be worth it if I am remembered, if not flatteringly, then at least with some small amount of accuracy.
Power is okay, and stupidity is usually harmless. Power and stupidity together are dangerous".
What what, " Trapis said as he hurried over to tend to her, his bare feet slapping on the floor. "What what. Hush hush.
Lord but I dislike poetry. How can anyone remember words that aren't put to music?
Once I knew what was bothering me, the greater part of my uneasiness left. Fear tends to come from ignorance. Once I knew what the problem was, it was just a problem, nothing to fear.
There is a great difference between being fearless and being brave.
We know how it ends practically before it starts. That´s why stories appeal to us. They give us the clarity and simplicity our real lives lack".
I should have been bolder and kissed her at the end. I should have been more cautious. I had talked too much. I had said too little.