Patrick Rothfuss: Trending quotes (page 5)

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

“The desire for knowledge shapes a man.”

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

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

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

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

“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.”

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

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

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

“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.”

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

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

“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.”

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

“I need you to breathe for me.”

“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.”