Patrick Rothfuss Quotes

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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.

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Anger can keep you warm at night, and wounded pride can spur a man to wondrous things.

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That is how heavy a secret can become. It can make blood flow easier than ink.

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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, and without the slightest idea of what was going on.

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Only priests and fools are fearless and I've never been on the best of terms with God.

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I've waited a long time to show these flowers how pretty you are.

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It was wise enough to know itself, and brave enough to be itself, and wild enough to change itself while somehow staying altogether true.

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

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After a certain point is reached the numbers cease to matter, and all that remains is the faceless mass of a crowd.

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Sleep marks passing time, giving us distance from the things that have hurt us. When a person is wounded they will often fall unconscious. Similarly, someone who hears traumatic news will often swoon or faint. This is the mind's way of protecting itself from pain.

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But how awful would that be? How terrible to live surrounded by the stark, sharp, hollowness of things that simply were enough?

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Perhaps the greatest faculty our minds possess is the ability to cope with pain.

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Barbarian that I am, I had eaten all of it. It had tasted quite nice too. Still, I took note of this fact and resigned myself to throw away half of a perfectly good cheese if it was set in front of me. Such is the price of civilization.

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Hear rumors and go digging for the painful truth beneath the lovely lies. You believe you have a right to these things, but you don't. When someone tells you a piece of their life, they're giving you a gift, not granting you your due.

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How odd to watch a mortal kindle / Then to dwindle day by day / Knowing their bright souls are tinder / And the wind will have its way

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Ambrose, your presence is the horseshit frosting on the horseshit cake that is the admissions interview process.

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No man is brave that has never walked a hundred miles. If you want to know the truth of who you are, walk until not a person knows your name. Travel is the great leveler, the great teacher, bitter as medicine, crueler than mirror-glass. A long stretch of road will teach you more about yourself than a hundred years of quiet.

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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 of an old man's voice. 'Things are too full of life in the spring months. In the summer, they're too strong and won't let go. Autumn...' He looked around at the changing leaves on the trees. 'Autumn's the time. In autumn everything is tired and ready to die.

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There is nothing quite so delightfully mysterious as a secret in your own backyard.

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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 her, and that is something I have never had. But there is a part of her that is only for me. You cannot touch it, no matter how hard you might try. And after she has left you I will still be here, making her laugh. My light shining in her. I will still be here long after she has forgotten your name.

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But sometimes the best help a person can find is helping someone else.

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Close your mouth, E'lir Kvothe, or I will feel obliged to put some vile tonic in it.

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A tree doesn't make a thunderstorm, but any fool knows where lightning's going to strike.

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Fear tends to come from ignorance. Once I knew what the problem was, it was just a problem, nothing to fear.

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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 couldn't remember ever doing it myself. After a moment's consideration, I decided lounging was probably similar to relaxing, but with more money in your pocket.

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That is like throwing two virgins into a bed. Enthusiasm, passion, and ignorance are not a good combination. Someone is likely to get hurt.

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Half of seeming clever is keeping your mouth shut at the right times.

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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, you don't say the storm was mean. It was cruel. It acted according to its nature and something unfortunately was hurt. The same is true of Denna.

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Could you help me catch the moon? I might be able to give you some advice, the old man said reluctantly. But first you should think this over, boy. When you love something, you have to make sure it loves you back, or you'll bring about no end of trouble chasing it.

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On his first hand he wore rings of stone,
Iron, Amber, Wood and Bone.
There were rings unseen on his second hand,
One blood in a flowing band,
One was air all whisper thin,
And the ring of ice had a flaw within.
Full faintly shone the ring of flame,
And the final ring was without name.

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