Patrick Rothfuss Quotes

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

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

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

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

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