Patrick Rothfuss Auri Quotes

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

Patrick Rothfuss

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

Patrick Rothfuss

#3. marginalia we were discussing today,

Umberto Eco

#4. The proper role of humanists is not to bring 'human values' to the attention of technicians otherwise engaged in a purely instrumental approach to their calling, but to demand the restoration of the practical or moral element in callings that have degenerated into techniques.

Christopher Lasch

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

Patrick Rothfuss

#6. I was a Scientologist before I was an actress, and I've always felt people are not only content with whatever religion I have, but are always interested.

Kirstie Alley

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

Patrick Rothfuss

#8. 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

#9. 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

#10. 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

#11. There is Ontario patriotism, Quebec patriotism, or Western patriotism; each based on the hope that it may swallow up the others, but there is no Canadian patriotism, and we can have no Canadian nation when we have no Canadian patriotism.

Henri Bourassa

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

Patrick Rothfuss

#13. 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

#14. 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

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

Patrick Rothfuss

#16. 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

#17. 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

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

Patrick Rothfuss

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

Patrick Rothfuss

#20. There is no place so dangerous as a world without magic.

Terry Goodkind

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

Patrick Rothfuss

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

Patrick Rothfuss

#23. 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

#24. If it's not worth fighting for, run from it, because it's certainly not worth having in your life.

Christopher Mark Heben

#25. Bathtubs, pools, water - to me, it's a very essential part of being grounded and sensual and feeling yourself.

Andre Balazs

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

Patrick Rothfuss