Patrick Rothfuss

“Words are pale shadows of forgotten names.”

— Patrick Rothfuss

“There was obviously more to the story, more that I needed to know.”

— Patrick Rothfuss

That's all that really matters in the end. Stories.

— Patrick Rothfuss

“I don’t wonder why they talk,” I said. “I wonder what they say.”

— Patrick Rothfuss

“Looters become looted, while time and tide make us mercenaries all.”

— Patrick Rothfuss

“I trouped, traveled, loved, lost, trusted and was betrayed.”

— Patrick Rothfuss

“Damn chicken. Come eat your dinner. I'm cold.”

— Patrick Rothfuss

“It´s worst when it´s your own stupid fault isn't it?.”

— Patrick Rothfuss

“¿Están las cosas tan mal como parece? ¿O me he vuelto viejo, como mi padre, y a todo le encuentro un sabor…

— Patrick Rothfuss

Do not mistake me for my mask. You see light dappling on the water and forget the deep, cold dark beneath.

— Patrick Rothfuss

“She handed Mola an apple. “This one has a wish inside it,” she said matter-of-factly. “Make sure you know what you want…

— Patrick Rothfuss

“Un hombre no debe ponerle nunca la mano encima a una mujer, salvo por amor.”

— Patrick Rothfuss

Each woman is like an instrument, waiting to be learned, loved, and finely played, to have at last her own true music…

— Patrick Rothfuss

Everything said, you couldn't hope for a nicer day to have a half dozen ex-soldiers with hunting bows relieve you of everything…

— Patrick Rothfuss

“There are two types of secrets. There are secrets of the mouth and secrets of the heart.”

— Patrick Rothfuss

“She smiled and was suddenly young again. "How does it feel to know where you are going?”

— Patrick Rothfuss

“Most things fail with age. Our hands and backs stiffen. Our eyes dim. Skin roughens and our beauty fades. The only exception…

— Patrick Rothfuss

“He then proceeded to shout at Alpha and Beta, a sign that he was in a genuine good mood. They took it…

— Patrick Rothfuss

“You don't really understand the ocean until you are in the midst of it, nothing but ocean on all sides, stretching away…

— Patrick Rothfuss

“Why? Because pride is a strange thing, and because generosity deserves generosity in return. But mostly because it felt like the right…

— Patrick Rothfuss

“This was appropriate, as it was the greatest silence of the three, wrapping the others inside itself. It was deep and wide…

— Patrick Rothfuss

“Do you know the saying Chan Vaen edan Kote ?' I tried to puzzle it out. 'Seven years... I don't know Kote…

— Patrick Rothfuss

Simmon pushed his hair out of his eyes, laughing boyishly. "You can't argue your way out of this one! She's obviously stupid…

— Patrick Rothfuss

I spoke it soft, but close enough to brush against her lips. I spoke it quiet, but near enough so that the…

— Patrick Rothfuss

“Teccam explains there are two types of secrets. There are secrets of the mouth and secrets of the heart. Most secrets are…

— Patrick Rothfuss

“It's the questions we can't answer that teach us the most. They teach us how to think. If you give a man…

— Patrick Rothfuss

“The trouble is, when you gift a girl with flowers your choice can be construed so many different ways. A man might…

— Patrick Rothfuss

“What is word for good together living? Nobody shits in the well?" I laughed. "Civilization?" He nodded, splaying his fingers: amusement. "Yes,"…

— Patrick Rothfuss

“Seven things stand before The entrance to the Lackless door One of them a ring unworn One a word that is forsworn…

— Patrick Rothfuss

You still think I've gone cracked in the head," Ben said, amused. "Listen, if tomorrow we pulled into Biren and someone told…

— Patrick Rothfuss

“I brought you a ring.” It was made of warm, smooth wood. “What does it do?” I asked. “It keeps secrets,” she…

— Patrick Rothfuss

You're sure your new roommate won't be like the last one who wore tinfoil socks and had a tendency to occasionally urinate…

— Patrick Rothfuss

“He writes like he´s afraid someone might actually understand him.”

— Patrick Rothfuss

“knackered is what he is,” he said. “He hasn’t got another”

— Patrick Rothfuss

You do not know the first note of the music that moves me.

— Patrick Rothfuss

“Pero no basta con querer algo para que sea verdad.”

— Patrick Rothfuss

“If it’s something everyone knows, I can’t afford to ask,”

— Patrick Rothfuss

“She smiled like knife on a velvet, she stretched like cat on the sun.”

— Patrick Rothfuss

“I am. We are. She is. He was. They will be.”

— Patrick Rothfuss

“It’s like an endless chain of half-built houses,”

— Patrick Rothfuss