Top 43 Quotes About Kvothe
#1. 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.
Patrick Rothfuss
#2. 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
Patrick Rothfuss
#3. Vashet: "I will admit, I've never had a studen offer himself up for a vicious beating in order to prove he's worth my time."
Kvothe: "That was nothing. Once I jumped off a roof.
Patrick Rothfuss
#4. If your name is getting too heavy, you should have Kvothe give you a new one.
Patrick Rothfuss
#5. Blackened body of God" Sim said,using stronger language than I'd ever heard from him before'
"Kvothe,you're alive.
Patrick Rothfuss
#6. Chronicler found himself thinking of a story he had heard. One of the many. The story told of how Kvothe had gone looking for his heart's desire. He had to trick a demon to get it. But once it rested in his hand, he was forced to fight an angel to keep it.
Patrick Rothfuss
#7. Where do you think stories come from, E'lir Kvothe? Every tale has deep roots somewhere in the world.
Patrick Rothfuss
#8. So many thoughts, my kvothe. you know too much to be happy.
Patrick Rothfuss
#9. Close your mouth, E'lir Kvothe, or I will feel obliged to put some vile tonic in it.
Patrick Rothfuss
#10. You don't understand," I said, growing irritated. "I don't have the slightest idea what the Lethani really is! It's not a path, but it helps choose a path.It's the simplest way,but it is not easy to see.
Honestly,you people sound like drunk cartographers.
-Kvothe
Patrick Rothfuss
#11. Re'lar Kvothe," he said seriously. "I am trying to wake your sleeping mind to the subtle language the world is whispering. I am trying to seduce you into understanding. I am trying to teach you." He leaned forward until his face was almost touching mine. "Quit grabbing at my tits.
Patrick Rothfuss
#12. The Chancellor looked down at the empty table for a minute. Then he shrugged, looked up, and gave a surprisingly jaunty smile. All in favor of admitting first-term Kvothe's reckless use of sympathy as proof of mastery of basic principles of sympathy vote by show of hands.
Patrick Rothfuss
#13. I am not accusing you of engaging in boyish fancy. I am advising you to avoid the appearance of boyish fancy.
Master Loren to Kvothe
Patrick Rothfuss
#14. Kvothe, Defend yourself well at the University. Make me proud. Remember your father's song. Be wary of folly. Your friend, Abenthy.
Patrick Rothfuss
#15. [Simmon] "Go on."
I [Kvothe] stayed where I was. "It's not that easy."
"Nothing's ever easy with you," Wilem muttered.
Patrick Rothfuss
#16. So," Chronicler said. "Subjunctive mood." "At best," Kvothe said, "it is a pointless thing. It needlessly complicates the language. It offends me.
Patrick Rothfuss
#17. I (Kvothe) started to say something else, but she (Vashet) put her hand over my mouth. I've said I understand. Stop fighting after you have won.
Patrick Rothfuss
#18. 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.
Terry Brooks
#19. Now," Kvothe said angrily, "you've both acted understandably, but that does not by any means mean that either of you have behaved well.
Patrick Rothfuss
#20. 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.
Patrick Rothfuss
#21. 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.
Patrick Rothfuss
#22. And it was a secret thing, of sorts. I have always had a weakness for secrets.
Patrick Rothfuss
#24. You know that feeling when you tip your chair too far and begin to fall backward? The sensation was something like that, mixed with self recrimination and the fear of death.
Patrick Rothfuss
#25. Wilem snorted."That doesn't sound suspicious at all," he said. "And you wonder why people talk about you."
"I don't wonder why they talk," I said "I wonder what they say.
Patrick Rothfuss
#26. If there's one thing I'm well versed in it's my own good qualities.
Patrick Rothfuss
#28. Maple. Maypole
Catch and carry.
Ash and Ember.
Elderberry.
Woolen. Woman.
Moon at night.
Willow. Window.
Candlelight.
Fallow farrow.
Ash and oak.
Bide and borrow.
Chimney smoke.
Barrel. Barley.
Stone and stave.
Wind and water.
Misbehave.
Patrick Rothfuss
#29. In closing, she advised me to drink more water, get some sleep, and suggested that in the future I refrain from strenuous physical activity in a hot room the day after falling off a roof.
Patrick Rothfuss
#30. Lord but I dislike poetry. How can anyone remember words that aren't put to music?
Patrick Rothfuss
#31. I have, of course, been called many other things. Most of them uncouth, although very few were unearned
Patrick Rothfuss
#32. With his eyes and those hands there won't be a woman safe in all the world when he starts hunting after the ladies.'
'Courting, dear,' my father corrected gently.
'Semantics,' she shrugged.
Patrick Rothfuss
#33. It's the questions we can't answer that teach us the most. They teach us how to think. If you give a man an answer, all he gains is a little fact. But give him a question and he'll look for his own answers.
Patrick Rothfuss
#35. A skilled observer might notice there was something his gaze avoided. The same way you avoid meeting the eye of an old lover at a formal dinner, or that of an old enemy sitting across the room in a crowded alehouse late at night.
Patrick Rothfuss
#36. I can't give you the moon," the tinker said. "She doesn't belong to me. She belongs only to herself.
Patrick Rothfuss
#37. So rather than risk saying the wrong thing, I said nothing.
Patrick Rothfuss
#38. 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 both thoughts from my mind..
Patrick Rothfuss
#39. 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".
Patrick Rothfuss
#40. We can't do anything but snap at each other," I said. "The masters made sure of that. Anything too extreme would get us expelled for Conduct Unbecoming a Member of the Arcanum. Why do you think I haven't made his life a hell?"
"You're lazy?" Wil suggested.
Patrick Rothfuss
#41. 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!
Patrick Rothfuss
#42. 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.
Patrick Rothfuss
#43. Stories don't need to be new to bring you joy. Some stories are like familiar friends. Some are dependable as bread.
Patrick Rothfuss
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