Top 100 Patrick Rothfuss Quotes
#1. THE NAME OF THE WIND marks the debut of a writer we would all do well to watch. Patrick Rothfuss has real talent, and his tale of Kvothe is deep and intricate and wondrous.
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#2. Patrick Rothfuss gives us a fabulous debut, standing firmly on the main stage of the fantasy genre and needing no warm-up act. Jordan and Goodkind must be looking nervously over their shoulders!
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#3. 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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#4. I hate it when I have to wait the next book in a series to come out.
Don't you hate it when you have to wait for the next book in a series to come out?
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#5. Love is such a thing. You have knowledge of what it is, but it defies careful explication."
"Love is a subtle concept," I admitted. "It's elusive, like justice, but it can be defined.
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#6. In the midst of fear Lyra knelt by Lanre's body and breathed his name. Her voice was a beckoning. Her voice was love and longing. Her voice called him to live again. But Lanre lay cold and dead.
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#7. Our language is rich with implication, so it is easier for us to accept the existence of things that cannot be explained. The Lethani is the greatest of these.
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#8. I almost got a psychology degree, I almost got a philosophy degree. I kept changing it so they couldn't make me graduate. I studied anthropology and eastern religion, epistomology, and astronomy ... I took every interesting course I could find for nine years.
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#9. This is the nature of love." Vashet said. "To attempt to describe it will drive a woman mad. This is what keeps poets scribbling endlessly away. If one could pin it to paper all complete, the others would lay down their pens. But it cannot be done.
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#10. By your logic I should also be in charge of Solinade dances, needlework, and horse thieving.
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#11. A poet is a musician who can't sing. Words have to find a man's mind before they can touch his heart, and some men's minds are woeful small targets.
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#12. A poet! I should have known you for a poet by how your body moved.
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#13. The figures of our speaking are like pictures of names. Vague, weak names, but names nonetheless. Be mindful of them.
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#15. Good job, Ambrose," Wilem said sarcastically. "You caught him. He stole your fire." One of the onlookers chimed in, "Yeah, make him put it back!
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#16. Stories don't need to be new to bring you joy. Some stories are like familiar friends. Some are dependable as bread.
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#17. Congratulations, he said. "That was the stupidest thing I've ever seen." His expression was a mix of awe and disbelief. "Ever.
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#18. I jerked away from her, almost falling. "No!" I meant to shout but it came out as a weak croak, "Don't touch me." My voice was shaking, though I couldn't tell if I was angry or afraid.
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#19. Beyond all other trees," she said with a curl of a smile on her elegant mouth, "the willow moves to the wind's desire.
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#21. Nothing but the truth could break me. What is harder than the truth?
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#22. And if Hollywood has taught us anything, it's that cool props and special effects are not enough. Story comes first. Everything depends on story.
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#23. Some were bitter. Some were sweet. Some were hardly anything. That was just the way of things.
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#24. I'd like respect, but failing that, a little healthy fear can go a long way to making things run smoothly.
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#25. I am sorry to tell you this thing. You are a good man, and a pretty thing. But still, you are only a man. All you have to offer the world is your anger.
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#26. For most practical purposes, Tarbean had two parts: Waterside and Hillside. Waterside is where people are poor. That makes them beggars, thieves and whores. Hillside is where people are rich. That makes them solicitors, politicians and courtesans.
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#27. But even this piece of flattery couldn't distract me from the fact that I was in the center of the Fae realm, blind, stark naked, and without the slightest idea of what was going on.
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#30. The truth is I've worked a lot of things people would consider shitty jobs but I've never really hated any of them.
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#31. That was another lesson I had learned perhaps too well: people meant pain.
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#32. I have it on good report that not only does Ambrose have a tiny, tiny penis, but he can only become aroused when in the presence of a dead dog, a painting of the Duke of Gibea, and a shirtless galley drummer.
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#33. She didn't fall, but oh, her heart went icy in her chest. She sat down hard upon the steps. Too numb to walk. Her heart was cold and white as chalk.
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#34. 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.
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#35. 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.
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#36. Bast stood in the doorway, practically dancing with irritation. When he spotted the approaching figure he rushed down the street, waving a piece of paper angrily. "A note? You sneak out and leave me a note?" He hissed angrily. "What am I, some dockside whore?
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#37. We lay on our sides, like spoons nesting in a drawer. My arm ended up under her head, like a pillow. She curled snugly along the inside of my body, so easy and natural, as if she had been designed to fit there. - Kvothe - The Name Of The Wind - pg 629
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#39. And there was Ambrose. To deem us simply enemies is to lose the true flavor of our relationship.
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#40. It's not over if you're still here," Chronicler said. "It's not a tragedy if you're still alive.
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#41. The air was heavy with the smell of leather and dust, of old parchment and binding glue. It smelled of secrets.
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#42. I'd love to take a stab at writing videogames. There are a lot of storytelling opportunities that really aren't being taken advantage of in that field. I'd like to experiment with telling a truly non-linear story.
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#43. It gets tiresome being spoken to as if you are a child, even if you happen to be one.
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#44. I tend to think too much, Bast. My greatest successes came from decisions I made when I stopped thinking and simply did what felt right. Even if there was no good explanation for what I did." He smiled wistfully. "Even if there were very good reasons for me not to do
what I did.
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#45. 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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#46. Knew myself to be quite sane. I briefly entertained the notion that I was insane and didn't know it. Then I considered the possibility that I had always been insane, acknowledged it as more likely than the former, then pushed
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#47. It means I breathe the free air and walk where my feet take me. I do not cringe and fawn like a dog at a man's title. That looks like pride to people who have spent their lives cultivating supple spines. Sleat gave a lazy
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#48. She knew the true shape of the world. All else was shadow and the sound of distant drums.
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#49. I think one of the biggest mistakes you can make as a writer is to follow your initial [writing] plan too stringently. A story needs room to grow and evolve.
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#50. If I'd been whoring before class and waved a corset at him, no one would have thought twice about it!
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#51. The old huntsman was a surprisingly good teacher. He didn't belabor his points, didn't talk down to us, and didn't mind questions. Even Tempi's trouble with the language didn't frustrate him. Even
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#53. Nothing was nothing else. Nothing was anything it shouldn't be.
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#54. He hesitated, then lifted his head and sniffed. "Have you been drinking?" The question was more curious than accusatory. "No," Bast said. The innkeeper raised an eyebrow. "I've been tasting," Bast said, emphasizing the word. "Tasting comes before drinking.
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#55. Luckily, languages are like musical instruments: the more you know, the easier it is to pick up new ones.
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#56. Yesterday he had limped, but today there was no part of his feet that didn't hurt, so limping did no good.
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#57. I decided to dub the room with the good chairs my lutery. Or perhaps my performatory. I would need a while to come up with something suitably pretentious.
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#58. But how awful would that be? How terrible to live surrounded by the stark, sharp, hollowness of things that simply were enough?
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#59. I can sell anything to anyone. That is actually my superpower. I am really good at negotiating and persuading.
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#60. There were two sets of double doors leading out of the antechamber, one marked STACKS and the other TOMES. Not knowing the difference between the two, I headed to the ones labeled STACKS. That was what I wanted. Stacks of books. Great heaps of books. Shelf after endless shelf of books.
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#61. I also felt guilty about the three pens I'd stolen, but only for a second. And since there was no convenient way to give them back, I stole a bottle of ink before I left.
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#62. the room grew unnaturally quiet. Kote stood with his back to the room, a stillness in his body and a terrible silence clenched between his teeth.
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#63. And please don't say 'blue,' or I might go absolutely mad right here on this bench.
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#64. Looking puzzled, Rian crossed her legs. "Now that the gates of hell are closed,
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#65. My romances were all pleasant and brief. I cannot say why brief, except to state the obvious: that I do not have much in me that might encourage a woman to make a long habit of my company.
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#66. He taught me more than all the others set end to end. 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.
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#68. If there is one thing I will not abide it is the folly of a willful pride.
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#69. The world needs people like you,' Simmon said in the tone of voice that let me know he was turning philosophical. 'You get things done. Not always the best way, or the most sensible way, but it gets done nonetheless. You're a rare creature.
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#70. It is quiet, and when the belling tower strikes the late hour, it doesn't break the silence so much as it underpins it.
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#71. For a moment my hands stopped aching from the cold, and instead longed for the familiar feel of music running through them.
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#72. She knew the way of things. 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. Like a wrist pinned hard
beneath a hand with the hot breath smell of want and
wine. . . .
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#73. Halfpenny a head. That's right. Anyone without a head gets in free.
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#74. Who keeps you safe from the Amyr? The singers? The Sithe? From all that would harm you in the world? Haliax asked with calm politeness, as if genuinely curious as to what the answer might be.
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#75. Denna lifted her glass in a salute. To the gullibility of the well-educated.
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#76. 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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#77. you might want to admit the possibility that you are impossibly thick when it comes to women.
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#78. As I've said before, there is a great difference between being fearless and being brave.
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#80. Barbarian that I am, I had eaten all of it. It had tasted quite nice too. Still, I took note of this fact and resigned myself to throw away half of a perfectly good cheese if it was set in front of me. Such is the price of civilization.
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#81. You were a little wild around the eyes there," she (Denna) said gently. "I don't think I've ever seen you out of sorts before."
I took another slow breath. I'm out of sorts all the time," I (Kvothe) said. "I just don't show it.
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#82. It felt exactly like someone had hit me in the head with a church.
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#83. We're being followed, I said, not bothering to whisper it. They were at least seventy feet behind us,
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#84. Ambrose turned on his heel and stormed off, but before he made it through the door, Elodin burst out singing:
'He's a well-bred ass, you can see it in his stride!
And for a copper penny he will let you take a ride!
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#85. When do you bleed a patient?"
The question brought me up short. "When I want him to die?" I asked dubiously.
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#86. I'm willing to lose some sleep if it comes to that. I can't think of the last time I shared the company of a woman who speaks her mind firmly and without hesitation. Your kind are in short supply these days.
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#87. He then proceeded to shout at Alpha and Beta, a sign that he was in a genuine good mood. They took it as calmly as ever, in spite of the fact that he accused them of things I'm sure no donkey has ever willingly done, especially not Beta, who possessed impeccable moral character.
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#88. What was that shameful display?" Wilem demanded after she had gone. "What?" I asked. "What?" he mocked my tone. "Can you even pretend to be that thick? If a girl as fair as that looked at me with one eye the way she looked at you with two ... We'd have a room by now, to say it carefully.
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#89. For me the really cool parts of being an author don't have anything to do with getting onto a bestseller list.
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#90. Denna rolled herself into my blanket and curled up with her back to the fire. "I will allow you to ponder my vast cleverness while I sleep. Wake me when you need anything else figured out.
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#91. PERHAPS THE GREATEST FACULTY our minds possess is the ability to cope with pain.
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#92. Books are a poor substitute for female companionship, but they are easier to find.
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#94. What the hell is that supposed to mean?" Chronicler snapped. "You're just spouting nonsense now."
"I'm spouting too much sense for you to understand," Bast said testily.
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#95. Music is a proud, temperamental mistress. Give her the time and attention she deserves, and she is yours. Slight her and there will come a day when you call and she will not answer. So I began sleeping less to give her the time she needed.
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#96. She laughed so sweet and loud and long it sounded like a bell, a harp, a song.
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#97. That is how I felt, watching the musicians play. I couldn't stand it. The everyday lack of my music was like a toothache I had grown used to. I could live with it. But having what I wanted dangled in front of me was more than I could bear.
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#98. After a certain point is reached the numbers cease to matter, and all that remains is the faceless mass of a crowd.
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#99. A lot of people pretend to be. They wear robes and put on airs to take advantage of the ignorant and gullible. But
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#100. He beat you. And as I spoke the words I felt a terrible anger come together inside me. It wasn't hot and furious, as some of my flashes of temper tend to be. This was different, slow and cold.
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