Auri's Quotes

#1. Auri's heart beat faster then. It had been ages since she'd come on somewhere wholly new. A place that dared to be entirely itself.

Patrick Rothfuss

#2. There was a door, but it was terribly bashful, so Auri politely pretended not to see it.

Patrick Rothfuss

#3. Oh yes. It was well worth it, doing things the proper way.

Patrick Rothfuss

#4. 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.

Patrick Rothfuss

#5. The gesture was so tight with rage she feared she'd snap and crack the world in two.

Patrick Rothfuss

#6. It exhasperated her, but she knew better than to force the world to her desire.

Patrick Rothfuss

#7. Her name was like an echo of an ache in her.

Patrick Rothfuss

#8. They had spilled their secrets, and Auri knew full well how heavy hard-held secrets could become.

Patrick Rothfuss

#9. She kicked, but there was little to be gained from that, burdened as she was with the heavy lump of sharp, hard love she held so tightly to her chest. Was it the answers that it held that gave it so much weight?

Patrick Rothfuss

#10. I love her more than just a little. I think it's because we're both somewhat broken, in our own odd ways. More importantly, we're both aware of it.

Patrick Rothfuss

#11. Democracy actually requires that the whole public be able to see common problems and address them and step outside of their own sort of narrow self-interest to do so.

Eli Pariser

#12. Deep in the Underthing, stones warm beneth her feet, Auri heard a faint, sweet strain of music.

Patrick Rothfuss

#13. Show me a man with very little money and I will show you a bum.

Joe E. Lewis

#14. But he was coming. He would be here soon, all sweet and brave and shattered and kind. He would come carrying and clever-fingered and oh so unaware of oh so many things. He was rough against the world, but even so ...

Patrick Rothfuss

#15. [In the theatre] Thanks.' He paused on the stairs. "And good-
"Don't say it!" yelled Helena. "No whistling, no well-wishing."
"I thought you weren't superstitious."
"I'm not,' she said defiantly, 'but obviously there are limits.

Christopher Fowler

#16. Auri stood, and in the circle of her golden hair she grinned and brought the weight of her desire down full upon the world.
And all things shook. And all things knew her will. And all things bent to please her.

Patrick Rothfuss

#17. You must never tell people their own stories. They have no interest in them, or they think they can tell them better themselves. Give them a stranger's life, and then they're content.

Karen Lord

#18. The cursed hunger for gold. -Auri sacra fames

Virgil

#19. She knew if you weren't always stepping lightly as a bird the whole world came apart to crush you. Like a house of cards. Like a bottle against stones.

Patrick Rothfuss

#20. She was not vain enough to work her will against the world. But she could use the things the world had given her.

Patrick Rothfuss

#21. Physicists abandoned their belief in a Newtonian, material universe because they had come to realize that the universe is not made of matter suspended in empty space but energy.

Bruce H. Lipton

#22. They were everything they ought to be and nothing else.

Patrick Rothfuss

#23. Owls are wise. They are careful and patient. Wisdom precludes boldness. That is why owls make poor heroes.

Patrick Rothfuss

#24. Nothing was nothing else. Nothing was anything it shouldn't be.

Patrick Rothfuss

#25. Some were bitter. Some were sweet. Some were hardly anything. That was just the way of things.

Patrick Rothfuss