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“Some days simply lay on you like stones.”

Patrick Rothfuss book The Slow Regard of Silent Things

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“Hespe's mouth went firm. She didn't scowl exactly, but it looked like she was getting all the pieces of a scowl together in one place, just in case she needed them in a hurry.”

Patrick Rothfuss book The Wise Man's Fear

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“What use is? What good is watching for that matter? People are forever watching things. They should be. Ithe things I look at. I am a see-er.”

Patrick Rothfuss book The Wise Man's Fear

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“It took him a long, miserable time before he realized the truth of things: There is a great deal of difference between a penis and a heart.”

Patrick Rothfuss book The Wise Man's Fear

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“The desire for knowledge shapes a man.”

Patrick Rothfuss book The Wise Man's Fear

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“Do not mistake me for my mask. You see light dappling on the water and forget the deep, cold dark beneath.”

Patrick Rothfuss book The Name of the Wind

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“I like your manly bravado," she said. "Do it some more.”

Patrick Rothfuss book The Name of the Wind

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

Patrick Rothfuss book The Wise Man's Fear

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“Do you just want to get by? Or do you want to make me proud?”

Patrick Rothfuss book The Name of the Wind

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“The second was some rather bad poetry, but it was short, and I forced my way through by gritting my teeth and occasionally closing one eye so as not to damage the entirety of my brain.”

Patrick Rothfuss book The Wise Man's Fear

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

Patrick Rothfuss book The Wise Man's Fear

Source: The Wise Man's Fear

“If I could sum it up in 50 words, I wouldn't have needed to write a whole novel about it.”

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“But no. There is a difference between the truth and what we wish were true.”

Patrick Rothfuss book The Slow Regard of Silent Things

Source: The Slow Regard of Silent Things

“I cannot help but wonder how many of us walk through our lives, day after day, feeling slightly broken and alone, surrounded all the time by others who feel exactly the same way.”

Patrick Rothfuss book The Slow Regard of Silent Things

Source: The Slow Regard of Silent Things

“I'll string a fiddle with your guts and make you play it while I dance.”

Patrick Rothfuss book The Name of the Wind

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“The seeds of the past bear fruit in the present.”

Patrick Rothfuss book The Wise Man's Fear

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“I’d heard he had started a fistfight in one of the seedier local taverns because someone had insisted on saying the word “utilize” instead of “use.”

Patrick Rothfuss book The Wise Man's Fear

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“If I seem to wander, if I seem to stray, remember that true stories seldom take the straightest way”

Patrick Rothfuss book The Name of the Wind

Source: The Name of the Wind

“I need you to breathe for me.”

Patrick Rothfuss book The Wise Man's Fear

Source: The Wise Man's Fear

“I am no poet. I do not love words for the sake of words. I love words for what they can accomplish. Similarly, I am no arithmetician. Numbers that speak only of numbers are of little interest to me.”

Patrick Rothfuss book The Wise Man's Fear

Source: The Wise Man's Fear