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“I’d heard you were dead.”
"I heard you wear a red lace corset,” I said matter-of-factly. “But I don’t believe every bit of nonsense that gets rumored about.”

Patrick Rothfuss book The Wise Man's Fear

Source: The Wise Man's Fear

“… it is better to have a mouthful of poison than a secret of the heart.”

Patrick Rothfuss book The Wise Man's Fear

Source: The Wise Man's Fear

“Only a fool worries over what he can’t control.”

Patrick Rothfuss book The Wise Man's Fear

Source: The Wise Man's Fear

“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 book The Wise Man's Fear

Source: The Wise Man's Fear

“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 traveled more than twenty miles from the place they were born.”

Patrick Rothfuss book The Name of the Wind

Variant: 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 traveled more than twenty miles from the place they were born.
Source: The Name of the Wind (2007), Chapter 8, “Thieves, Heretics, and Whores” (p. 63)

“I needed to let them know they couldn't hurt me. I've learned that the best way to stay safe is to make your enemies think you can't be hurt.”

Patrick Rothfuss book The Name of the Wind

Source: The Name of the Wind

“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 book The Name of the Wind

Source: The Name of the Wind

“Practice makes the master.”

Patrick Rothfuss book The Name of the Wind

Source: The Name of the Wind

“Plainly said, he was giving me enough rope to hang myself with. Apparently he didn’t realize that once a noose is tied, it will fit one neck as easily as another.”

Patrick Rothfuss book The Name of the Wind

Source: The Name of the Wind (2007), Chapter 39, “Enough Rope” (p. 281)

“If you are going to impose your will on the world, you must have control over what you believe.”

Patrick Rothfuss book The Name of the Wind

Source: The Name of the Wind

“I won the only duel I ever lost.”

Patrick Rothfuss book The Wise Man's Fear

Source: The Wise Man's Fear

“She taught me I should never do anything in private I did not want talked about in public, and cautioned me not to talk in my sleep.”

Patrick Rothfuss book The Name of the Wind

Source: The Name of the Wind

“I only know one story. But oftentimes small pieces seem to be stories themselves.”

Patrick Rothfuss book The Name of the Wind

Source: The Name of the Wind

“This story is for all the slightly broken people out there. I am one of you. You are not alone. You are all beautiful to me.”

Patrick Rothfuss book The Slow Regard of Silent Things

Source: The Slow Regard of Silent Things

“A poet is a musician who can't sing.”

Patrick Rothfuss book The Name of the Wind

Source: The Name of the Wind

“Roses! I swear you men have all your romance from the same worn book. Flowers are a good thing, a sweet thing to give a lady. But it is always roses, always red, and always perfect hothouse blooms when they can come by them.”

Patrick Rothfuss book The Name of the Wind

Source: The Name of the Wind

“That was another lesson I had learned perhaps too well: people meant pain.”

Patrick Rothfuss book The Name of the Wind

Source: The Name of the Wind