Patrick Rothfuss Quotes
Patience and propriety. It was the only graceful thing to do.
A tree doesn't make a thunderstorm, but any fool knows where lighting´s going to strike".
There is something deeply satisfying in shaping something with your hands. Proper artificing is like a song made solid. It is an act of creation.
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.
It's quite enough to have a secret. Anything more would be greedy.
There is a difference between the truth and what we wish were true.
over his own dark Cealdish beard. “Nothing like your marvelous facebear,
Bast looked at him incredulously."The whole world is burning down, "he said."Open your eyes.
Asleep she was a painting of a fire. Awake she was the fire itself
As my father used to say: “There are two sure ways to lose a friend, one is to borrow, the other to lend.” - Kvothe the Bloodless (The Name of The Wind)
...every piece of the laughing was a tiny bird come tumbling out to fly around the room.
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.
So yes. It had flaws, but what does that matter when it comes to matters of the heart? We love what we love. Reason does not enter into it.
Wrong things never lead to success. If a man acts wrongly and succeeds, that is not the way. Without the Lethani there is no true success.
I can't give you the moon, ” the tinker said. “She doesn't belong to me. She belongs only to herself.
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.
Nothing was nothing else. Nothing was anything it shouldn’t be.
They were everything they ought to be and nothing else.