Top 100 Patrick Rothfuss Quotes
#1. I gave a silent prayer of thanks that I didn't seem to be lousy. I had probably been too filthy for any self-respecting louse to take up residence.
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#2. By your logic I should also be in charge of Solinade dances, needlework, and horse thieving.
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#3. She handed Mola an apple. "This one has a wish inside it," she said matter-of-factly. "Make sure you know what you want before you take a bite.
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#4. Nothing was nothing else. Nothing was anything it shouldn't be.
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#5. I think authors are just realizing there's no real reason to feel limited to a narrow set of genre rules in their writing. There's no reason a mystery novel can't have fantastic elements in it. Similarly, there's no reason why your epic fantasy series can't have elements of a mystery.
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#6. AS WITH ALL TRULY wild things, care is necessary in approaching them. Stealth is useless. Wild things recognize stealth for what it is, a lie and a trap. While wild things might play games of stealth, and in doing so may even occasionally fall prey to stealth, they are never truly caught by it.
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#7. No matter where she stood, she was in the center of the room.
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#8. Death was like an unpleasant neighbor. You didn't talk about him for fear he might hear you and decide to pay a visit.
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#9. A story is like a nut," Vashet said. "A fool will swallow it whole and choke. A fool will throw it away, thinking it of little worth." She smiled. "But a wise woman finds a way to crack the shell and eat the meat inside.
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#10. I'm not officially a collector, but I have a strange attraction and a weakness for keys and coins. Old keys and interesting coins.
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#11. He looked down at me. "Congratulations," he said. "That was the stupidest thing I've ever seen." His expression was a mixture of awe and disbelief
"Ever".
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#12. No. You should take pleasure in following the Lethani. If you fight well, you should take pride in doing a thing well. For the fighting itself you should feel only duty and sorrow. Only barbarians and madmen take pleasure in combat. Whoever loves the fight itself has left the Lethani behind.
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#13. So," Chronicler said. "Subjunctive mood." "At best," Kvothe said, "it is a pointless thing. It needlessly complicates the language. It offends me.
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#14. There are two sure ways to lose a friend, one is to borrow, the other is to lend.
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#15. We understand how dangerous a mask can be. We all become what we pretend to be.
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#16. Aethe, near my heart.
Without vanity, the ribbon.
Without duty, the wind.
Without blood, the victory.
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#17. A ghost wants revenge, a demon wants your soul, a shamble-man is hungry and cold. It makes them less terrible. Things we understand we can try to control. But Chandrian come like lightning from a clear blue sky. Just destruction. No rhyme or reason to it.
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#18. It's a good sign when a student goes chasing the wind and catches it,
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#19. [Simmon] "Go on."
I [Kvothe] stayed where I was. "It's not that easy."
"Nothing's ever easy with you," Wilem muttered.
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#20. Good lord woman. If i had tits like yours I'd own half the world by now.
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#21. No matter how you spend your life, your wit will defend you more often than a sword. Keep it sharp!
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#22. Upon him I will visit famine and a fire,
Till all around him desolation rings
And all the demons in the outer dark
Look on amazed and recognize
That vengeance is the business of a man.
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#23. No fickleness in flight like that of wind or women's fancy,
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#24. The framed tale is, in my opinion, one of the most natural ways to tell a story. If you think of it, the conceit of the frame-less story is actually the odd way of doing things. Without the frame, how do you know the context for a story?
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#25. You don't really understand the ocean until you are in the midst of it, nothing but ocean on all sides, stretching away endlessly. Only then do you realize how small you are, how powerless.
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#26. Kvothe, Defend yourself well at the University. Make me proud. Remember your father's song. Be wary of folly. Your friend, Abenthy.
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#27. Ah,' the innkeeper said. 'So you were getting ready to drink then?'
'Tiny Gods, yes,' Bast said. 'To great excess. What the hell else is there to do?
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#28. All stories are true," Skarpi said. "But this one really happened, if that's what you mean.
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#29. In the future, when Joss Whedon and I are best friends and hanging out together in my tree fort, I hope Neil Gaiman comes over too.
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#30. Laying in the dark, she wondered what the day would bring. Some days were trumpet-proud. They heralded like thunder. Some were courteous, careful as a lettered card upon a silver plate.
But some days were shy. They did not name themselves. They waited for a careful girl to find them.
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#31. You are not a goatherd. You are a student of the Lethani. My student. You should speak as a person of quality.
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#32. there wasn't much difference between the University and the streets of Tarbean. No matter where you are, people are basically the same. Besides,
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#33. Barbarians have no woman to teach them civilization. Barbarians cannot learn." I
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#34. Denna peered out of the hedge toward the path, and I looked at her. Her hair fell like a curtain down the side of her head, and the tip of her ear was peeking through it. It was, at that moment, the most lovely thing I had ever seen.
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#35. Congratulations. That was the stupidest thing I've ever seen. Ever.
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#36. Never fool yourself into perceiving things that don't exist. It's a fine line to walk, but sympathy is not an art for the weak willed. He
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#37. Finally, say that she was beautiful. That is all that can be well said. That she was beautiful, through to her bones, despite any flaw or fault.
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#38. the best cloaks have innumerable little pockets that I have an irrational and overpowering attraction toward. As
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#40. To deem us simply enemies is to lose the true flavor of our relationship. It was more like the two of us entered into a business partnership in order to more efficiently pursue our mutual interest of hating each other.
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#44. What are the three most important rules of the chemist?"
This I knew from Ben. "Label clearly. Measure twice. Eat elsewhere.
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#45. 85% of modern music doesn't have a damn thing to do with music. It has to do with looking good. Name me one woman on the top ten right now who isn't absolutely smoking hot. You think that's a coincidence?
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#46. Reading is professionally important for me to keep tuned in to what's being written in my genre, let's not lie. But that's not the reason I read. I read for my own emotional and mental health. If I stopped reading, I'd probably just die.
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#50. Half of seeming clever is keeping your mouth shut at the right times.
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#51. In what manner was she beautiful? I realize that I cannot say enough. So. Since I cannot say enough, at least I will avoid saying too much. Say
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#52. Deep in the Underthing, stones warm beneth her feet, Auri heard a faint, sweet strain of music.
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#54. If whatever you're going to do is wrong, you might as well do whatever you want.
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#55. After the battle was finished and the enemy was set beyond the doors of stone, survivors found Lanre's body, cold and lifeless near the beast he had slain.
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#56. But this was not a time for begging favors from the moon. Not now. She could not rush and neither could she be delayed. Some things were simply too important.
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#57. He spoke gently, laughed often, and never exercised his wit at the expense of others.
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#58. Wilem tapped Simmon's shoulder."He's telling the truth."
Simmon glanced over at him."Why would you say that?"
"He sounds more sincere then that when he lies.
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#60. When you love something, you have to make sure it loves you back, or you'll bring about no end of trouble chasing it.
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#61. It's my belief that you should never show your work to anyone in the publishing world until it shines like a diamond. Rough drafts don't shine, as a rule. Mine certainly didn't. That's why I was rejected for years and years.
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#63. It will be worth it if I am remembered, if not flatteringly, then at least with some small amount of accuracy.
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#65. The key is knowing when to fight. Men are full of anger, so they have trouble with this. Women less so.
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#66. It was shivery and scant. Scared. Skint. But just around the edges it was still scintillant.
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#67. She raised her own glass, filled with a deep red wine. "To Ambrose Jakis," she said with sudden fierceness. "May he fall into a well and die.
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#69. Someone's parents have been singing entirely the wrong sort of songs.
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#70. Character is half the reason we read. We're excited because of the plot, but we care because of the characters.
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#71. He barely even owned his own name, and even that had been worn thin and threadbare through the years.
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#72. She was a wicked thing sometimes. All full of want. As if the shape of the world depended on her mood. As if she were important.
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#73. If you can find someone like that, someone who you can hold and close your eyes to the world with, then you're lucky.
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#74. It had felt as if I were truly awake for the first time, true knowledge running like ice in my blood.
The memory exhilirated me for a moment, then left me with a broken cord of loss.
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#75. Vashet shook a finger and cuffed the young girl on the side of her head. It was the same scolding any child receives. Stay out of the neighbor's garden. Don't tease the Bentons' sheep. Don't play tag among the thousand spinning knives of your people's sacred tree.
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#76. Everyone knows one story, I thought. Everyone knows at least one.
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#78. She curled snugly along the inside of my body, so easy and natural, as if she had been designed to fit there.
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#80. Dawn was coming. The Waystone Inn lay in silence, and it was a silence of three parts.
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#82. The second was some rather bad poetry, but it was short, and I forced my way through by gritting my teeth and occasionally closing one eye so as not to damage the entirety of my brain.
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#83. I am no poet. I do not love words for the sake of words. I love words for what they can accomplish. Similarly, I am no arithmetician. Numbers that speak only of numbers are of little interest to me.
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#84. She knew. She knew how quickly things could break. You did the things you could. You tended to the world for the world's sake. You hoped you would be safe. But still she knew. It could come crashing down and there was nothing you could do.
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#85. How odd to watch a mortal kindle / Then to dwindle day by day / Knowing their bright souls are tinder / And the wind will have its way
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#86. Bast looked at him incredulously."The whole world is burning down,"he said."Open your eyes.
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#87. This story is for all the slightly broken people out there. I am one of you. You are not alone. You are all beautiful to me.
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#88. Waterside was poor. Hillside was rich. Waterside stank. Hillside was clean. Waterside had thieves. Hillside had bankers -I'm sorry, burglars.
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#89. Sleep marks passing time, giving us distance from the things that have hurt us. When a person is wounded they will often fall unconscious. Similarly, someone who hears traumatic news will often swoon or faint. This is the mind's way of protecting itself from pain.
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#90. One of them had a large wooden sign nailed to its door proclaiming, NO SYMPATHY! I wondered what non-arcane visitors might think of the warning.
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#92. If you are going to impose your will on the world, you must have control over what you believe.
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#93. Knowing your own ignorance is the first step to enlightenment.
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#96. Patience and propriety. It was the only graceful thing to do.
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#97. Oh yes. It was well worth it, doing things the proper way.
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#98. There is something powerfully beguiling about the excited eyes of a young woman. They can pull all manner of nonsense out of a foolish young man, and I was no exception to this rule.
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#99. Ben's training has given me a memory so clean and sharp I have to be careful not to cut myself sometimes.
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