Patrick Rothfuss Quotes
- She taught me I should never do anything in private I did not want talked about in public, and cautioned me not to talk in…
- The day we fret about the future is the day we leave our childhood behind.
- It doesn't eat meat." I said. "It's a herbivore. It's like a big cow." Denna looked at me and started to laugh. Not hysterical laughter,…
- I don't speak fluent bumpkin...
- Old Cob tucked away his bowl of stew with the predatory efficency of a lifetime bachelor.
- My granda always told me that fall's the time to root up something you don't want coming back to trouble you.' Kote mimicked the quaver…
- You do not know the first note of the music that moves me.
- Someone's parents have been singing entirely the wrong sort of songs.
- Congratulations. That was the stupidest thing I've ever seen. Ever.
- Stories only happen to people who can tell them.
- You lack the requisite spine and testicular fortitude to study under me.
- I needed to let them know they couldn't hurt me. I've learned that the best way to stay safe is to make your enemies think…
- There is a sort of camaraderie that rarely exists except between men who have fought the same enemies and know the same women.
- We understand how dangerous a mask can be. We all become what we pretend to be.
- Roses! I swear you men have all your romance from the same worn book. Flowers are a good thing, a sweet thing to give a…
- If I could sum it up in 50 words, I wouldn't have needed to write a whole novel about it.
- How about this?' Simmon asked me. "Which is worse, stealing a pie or killing Ambrose?" I gave it a moment's hard thought. "A meat pie,…
- Ambrose, your presence is the horseshit frosting on the horseshit cake that is the admissions interview process.
- I have heard what poets write about women. They rhyme and rhapsodize and lie. I have watched sailors on the shore stare mutely at the…
- Elodin looked at me. "What a remarkably honest threat," he said. "Normally they're much more growlish and gristly than that." "Gristly?" I asked, emphasizing the…