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Patrick Rothfuss quotes - page 8
How do they feel about demons off in Atur?” he asked. "Scared.” My father tapped his temple. "All that religion makes their brains soft.
Patrick Rothfuss
You're just getting old.” She gave a dramatic sigh. "Truly, all the more's the tragedy; the second thing to go is a man's memory.
Patrick Rothfuss
It was wise enough to know itself, and brave enough to BE itself, and wild enough to change itself while somehow staying altogether true.
Patrick Rothfuss
It's like everyone tells a story about themselves inside their own head. Always. All the time. That story makes you what you are. We build ourselves out of that story.
Patrick Rothfuss
I've waited a long time to show these flowers how pretty you are.
Patrick Rothfuss
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, or a fruit pie?
Patrick Rothfuss
... if I have ever met someone without a single shadow on their heart, it was surely a child too young for speaking.
Patrick Rothfuss
I guess I'm destined to be loveless.
Patrick Rothfuss
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 you by now.
Patrick Rothfuss
Using words to talk of words is like using a pencil to draw a picture of itself, on itself. Impossible. Confusing. Frustrating... but there are other ways to understanding.
Patrick Rothfuss
Why are you smiling?' 'I'm relieved,' I said honestly. 'I was worried I'd given myself cadmium poisoning, or I had some mysterious disease. This is just someone trying to kill me.
Patrick Rothfuss
Isn't that the way of the world? We want the sweet things, but we need the unpleasant ones.
Patrick Rothfuss
I've never really understood the desire people have to quantify a baby. "He's X big and Y long," As if the baby is a fish you're not sure you're going to keep. Or some prize potato you're hoping will win a prize at the county fair.
Patrick Rothfuss
He taught only one class: 'Unlikely Maths'. But since the time was listed as "now" and the place, "everywhere," this was hardly helpful in tracking him down.
Patrick Rothfuss
When you love something, you have to make sure it loves you back, or you'll bring about no end of trouble chasing it.
Patrick Rothfuss
All stories are true,” Skarpi said. "But this one really happened, if that's what you mean.
Patrick Rothfuss
With his eyes and those hands there won't be a woman safe in all the world when he starts hunting after the ladies.' 'Courting, dear,' my father corrected gently. 'Semantics,' she shrugged.
Patrick Rothfuss
Only priests and fools are fearless and I've never been on the best of terms with God.
Patrick Rothfuss
Ah,' the innkeeper said. 'So you were getting ready to drink then?' 'Tiny Gods, yes,' Bast said. 'To great excess. What the hell else is there to do?
Patrick Rothfuss
Wilem snorted."That doesn't sound suspicious at all," he said. "And you wonder why people talk about you." "I don't wonder why they talk," I said "I wonder what they say.
Patrick Rothfuss
But no. It didn't suit him. She should have known. He was not a one for fastening. For holding closed. Neither was he dark. Oh no. He was emberant. Incarnadine. He was bright with better bright beneath, like copper-gilded gold.
Patrick Rothfuss
After I'd been in college for a couple years I'd read Shakespeare and Frost and Chaucer and the poets of the Harlem Renaissance. I'd come to appreciate how gorgeous the English language could be. But most fantasy novels didn't seem to make the effort.
Patrick Rothfuss
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