Patrick Rothfuss: Trending quotes (page 4)
Patrick Rothfuss trending quotes. Read the latest quotes in collection“… it is better to have a mouthful of poison than a secret of the heart.”
Source: The Wise Man's Fear
“Only a fool worries over what he can’t control.”
Source: The Wise Man's Fear
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)
“It was the patient, cut-flower sound of a man who is waiting to die.”
Source: The Name of the Wind
Source: 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.”
Source: The Name of the Wind
“I only know one story. But oftentimes small pieces seem to be stories themselves.”
Source: The Name of the Wind
Source: The Slow Regard of Silent Things
“A poet is a musician who can't sing.”
Source: The Name of the Wind
“You are not wise enough to fear me as I should be feared.”
Source: The Name of the Wind
Source: The Name of the Wind
“Why would I want to win anything other than a beautiful game?”
Source: The Wise Man's Fear
“That was another lesson I had learned perhaps too well: people meant pain.”
Source: The Name of the Wind