Patrick Rothfuss Quotes

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• What has made me most proud - the things that I've done that I feel the most pride about - is helping people care about…
• I firmly believe that we're all good people, but sometimes it's hard to understand how to do good.
• Fantasy is my favorite genre for reading and writing. We have more options than anyone else, and the best props and special effects. That means…
• Don't get me wrong, magic is cool. But a nervous mother singing to her child at night while something moves quietly through the dark outside…
• It's like everyone tells a story about themselves inside their own head. Always. All the time. That story makes you what you are. We build…
• Using words to talk of words is like using a pencil to draw a picture of itself, on itself. Impossible. Confusing. Frustrating ... but there…
• Words are pale shadows of forgotten names. As names have power, words have power. Words can light fires in the minds of men. Words can…
• We are more than the parts that form us.
• When the hearthfire turns to blue, what to do? what to do? run outside, run and hide when his eyes are black as crow? where…
• I wanted to tell her that she was the first beautiful thing I had seen in three years. That the sight of her yawning to…
• When we are children we seldom think of the future. This innocence leaves us free to enjoy ourselves as few adults can. The day we…
• Elodin proved a difficult man to find. He had an office in Hollows, but never seemed to use it. When I visited Ledgers and Lists,…
• She looked at me. "What? Is there something wrong with my idea?" "It's not very heroic," I said dismissively. "I was expecting something with a…
• You are an educated man. You know there are no such things as demons." Bast smiled a terrible smile. "There is only my kind." Bast…
• Just handle the books gently and you’ll get along fine.
• 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…
• I have stolen princesses back from sleeping barrow kings. I burned down the town of Trebon. I have spent the night with Felurian and left…
• The boy grows upward, but the girl grows up.
• By your logic I should also be in charge of Solinade dances, needlework, and horse thieving.
• 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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