Patrick Rothfuss Quotes

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• No hard feelings about that time in the Crucible when you mixed my salts and I was nearly blind for a day. No. No, really,…
• Thieves, Heretics, and Whores
• However, while being able to think about two things at the same time is a terribly convenient, the training it takes to get there is…
• Do you just want to get by? Or do you want to make me proud?
• Anger can keep you warm at night, and wounded pride can spur a man to wondrous things.
• 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…
• I like your manly bravado," she said. "Do it some more.
• Bones mend. Regret stays with you forever.
• I took a deep breath, 'I took the nahlrout because I didn't want to faint. I needed to let them know they couldn't hurt me.…
• It wasn't even a good note. 'If you are reading this I am probably dead.' What sort of a note is that?
• Denna is a wild thing," I explained. "Like a hind or a summer storm. If a storm blows down your house, or breaks a tree,…
• It gets tiresome being spoken to as if you are a child, even if you happen to be one.
• Did I ever mention I used to be a delivery driver too? I was. I can read a map. What’s more, using a brilliant mixture…
• Only priests and fools are fearless and I've never been on the best of terms with God.
• I only know one story. But oftentimes small pieces seem to be stories themselves.
• Then I felt something inside me break and music began to pour out into the quiet. My fingers danced; intricate and quick they spun something…
• You see, women are like fires, like flames. Some women are like candles, bright and friendly. Some are like single sparks, or embers, like fireflies…
• Just pity him, my boy. Tomorrow we'll be on our way, but he'll have to keep his own disagreeable company until the day he dies.
• I have known her longer, my smile said. True, you have been inside the circle of her arms, tasted her mouth, felt the warmth of…
• When left to its own devices it tends to make me look as if I’ve been set afire.

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