Heart Quotes by Patrick Rothfuss

Speculative fiction is where my heart lies. It's what I read growing up, and it's what I read as an adult.

— Patrick Rothfuss

I'm a firm supporter of the word polyamory. But that one is close to my heart.

— Patrick Rothfuss

...if I have ever met someone without a single shadow on their heart, it was surely a child too young for speaking.

— Patrick Rothfuss

“She was a wicked thing sometimes. All full of want. As if the shape of the world depended on her mood. As…

— Patrick Rothfuss

...it is better to have a mouthful of poison than a secret of the heart.

— Patrick Rothfuss

“Looking puzzled, Rian crossed her legs. “Now that the gates of hell are closed,”

— Patrick Rothfuss

Words have to find a man's mind before they can touch his heart, and some men's minds are woefully small targets.

— Patrick Rothfuss

Beer dulls a memory, brand sets it burning, but wine is the best for a sore heart's yearning.

— Patrick Rothfuss

I know," she said. "You have a stone in your heart, and some days it's so heavy there is nothing to be…

— Patrick Rothfuss

I've read fantasy my whole life. Quite literally; my mom read me The Hobbit before I could read stuff to myself. So…

— Patrick Rothfuss

It's easier to write about heartbreak after you've had your heart broken. You have more material to draw from, you can extrapolate…

— Patrick Rothfuss

Secrets of the heart. We swallow hard against them every day, forcing them deep inside us. There they sit, growing heavier, festering.…

— Patrick Rothfuss

“It took him a long, miserable time before he realized the truth of things: There is a great deal of difference between…

— Patrick Rothfuss

There can be many opinions on a thing, but there is only one truth." Vashet smiled lazily. "And if the pursuit of…

— Patrick Rothfuss

Words are pale shadows of forgotten names. As names have power, words have power. Words can light fires in the minds of…

— Patrick Rothfuss

Then I played the song that hides in the center of me. That wordless music that moves through the secret places in…

— Patrick Rothfuss

I have heard what poets write about women. They rhyme and rhapsodize and lie. I have watched sailors on the shore stare…

— Patrick Rothfuss

“Remember this, son, if you forget everything else. A poet is a musician who can’t sing. Words have to find a man’s…

— Patrick Rothfuss

It's a shame you left without a word, you know. She was just beginning to trust you before that. Before you got…

— Patrick Rothfuss

I smiled,"Deoch, my heart is made of stronger stuff than glass. When she strikes she'll find it strong as iron-bound brass, or…

— Patrick Rothfuss

“She tried to slide it back to proper true, but couldn't see the shape of it, and couldn't tell the way of…

— Patrick Rothfuss

“There is a great deal of difference between a penis and a heart.”

— Patrick Rothfuss