Patrick Rothfuss Quotes

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• The second was some rather bad poetry, but it was short, and I forced my way through by gritting my teeth and occasionally closing one…
• Re'lar Kvothe," he said seriously. "I am trying to wake your sleeping mind to the subtle language the world is whispering. I am trying to…
• I swear I've never met a man who has your knack for lack of social grace. If you weren't naturally charming, someone would have stabbed…
• I know," she said. "You have a stone in your heart, and some days it's so heavy there is nothing to be done. But you…
• I knelt and opened up my lute case. Moving the lute aside, I pressed the lid of the secret compartment and twisted it open. I…
• I walked across the polished marble floor and sat on a red velvet lounging couch. I idly wondered how exactly one was supposed to lounge.…
• I decided to dub the room with the good chairs my lutery. Or perhaps my performatory. I would need a while to come up with…
• So Stapes conducted a dinner for just the two of us, then informed me of a dozen small but important mistakes I had made. Setting…
• In the hours that followed, I learned that Ademic hand gestures did not actually represent facial expressions. It was nothing so simple as that. For…
• It's the questions we can't answer that teach us the most. They teach us how to think. If you give a man an answer, all…
• But even this piece of flattery couldn't distract me from the fact that I was in the center of the Fae realm, blind, stark naked,…
• You never do things the easy way, do you?" she said. "There's an easy way?" I asked.
• What do they do to students at the University who eavesdrop?” Bast asked curiously. “I haven’t the slightest idea. I was never caught. I think…
• ...it is better to have a mouthful of poison than a secret of the heart.
• 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…
• Books are a poor substitute for female companionship, but they are easier to find.
• I won the only duel I ever lost.
• It is quite a thing. There are so many men, all endlessly trying to sweep me off my feet. And there is one of you,…
• To be both rich and handsome was bad enough. But to have a voice like honey over warm bread on top of that was simply…
• It's hard to be wrongfully accused, but it's worse when the people looking down on you are clods who have never read a book or…

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