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Patrick Rothfuss trending quotes. Read the latest quotes in collectionSource: The Wise Man's Fear (2011)
“Half of seeming clever is keeping your mouth shut at the right times.”
Source: The Wise Man's Fear
Source: The Slow Regard of Silent Things
Source: The Wise Man's Fear (2011)
Context: We love what we love. Reason does not enter into it. In many ways, unwise love is the truest love. Anyone can love a thing because. That's as easy as putting a penny in your pocket. But to love something despite. To know the flaws and love them too. That is rare and pure and perfect.
“Too much honesty makes you sound insincere.”
Variant: Too much truth confuses the facts. Too much honesty makes you sound insincere
Source: The Name of the Wind (2007), Chapter 26, “Lanre Turned” (p. 203)
Context: “All stories are true,” Skarpi said. “But this one really happened, if that’s what you mean.” He took another slow drink, then smiled again, his bright eyes dancing. “More or less. You have to be a bit of a liar to tell a story the right way. Too much truth confuses the facts. Too much honesty makes you sound insincere.”
Source: The Slow Regard of Silent Things
“Only priests and fools are fearless and I've never been on the best of terms with God.”
Source: The Name of the Wind
Source: The Slow Regard of Silent Things
“Books are a poor substitute for female companionship, but they are easier to find.”
Source: The Wise Man's Fear
“We understand how dangerous a mask can be. We all become what we pretend to be.”
Variant: We all become what we pretend to be.
Source: The Name of the Wind
Source: The Name of the Wind
Source: The Name of the Wind (2007), Chapter 86, “The Fire Itself” (pp. 672-673)
“You never do things the easy way, do you?" she said.
"There's an easy way?" I asked.”
Source: The Wise Man's Fear
Interview with Fantasy Book Critic (25 May 2007)
Context: Anyway, I was listening to Beagle answer a question on the panel, he said something along the lines of, "I'd never want to write The Last Unicorn again. It was excruciatingly hard, because I was writing a faerie tale while at the same time writing a spoof of a faerie tale."
I just sat there thunderstruck. I realized that's exactly what I had been doing for over a decade with my story. I was writing heroic fantasy, while at the same time I was satirizing heroic fantasy.
While telling his story, Kvothe makes it clear that he's not the storybook hero legends make him out to be. But at the same time, the reader sees that he's a hero nonetheless. He's just a hero of a different sort.