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“Each woman is like an instrument, waiting to be learned, loved, and finely played, to have at last her own true music made.”

Patrick Rothfuss book The Wise Man's Fear

Source: The Wise Man's Fear

“All stories are true,” Skarpi said. “But this one really happened, if that’s what you mean.”

Patrick Rothfuss book The Name of the Wind

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 Name of the Wind (2007), Chapter 26, “Lanre Turned” (p. 203)

“You,” I said, “are sweet music in a distant room.”

Patrick Rothfuss book The Wise Man's Fear

Source: The Wise Man's Fear

“If your name is getting too heavy, you should have Kvothe give you a new one.”

Patrick Rothfuss book The Wise Man's Fear

Source: The Wise Man's Fear

“Someone's parents have been singing entirely the wrong sort of songs.”

Patrick Rothfuss book The Name of the Wind

Source: The Name of the Wind

“I can't give you the moon,” the tinker said. “She doesn't belong to me. She belongs only to herself.”

Patrick Rothfuss book The Wise Man's Fear

Source: The Wise Man's Fear

“She was a wicked thing sometimes. All full of want. As if the shape of the world depended on her mood. As if she were important.”

Patrick Rothfuss book The Slow Regard of Silent Things

Source: The Slow Regard of Silent Things

“I guess I'm destined to be loveless”

Patrick Rothfuss book The Name of the Wind

Source: The Name of the Wind

“I learned to love the feel of good words.”

Patrick Rothfuss book The Name of the Wind

Source: The Name of the Wind

“That is like throwing two virgins into a bed. Enthusiasm, passion, and ignorance are not a good combination. Someone is likely to get hurt.”

Patrick Rothfuss book The Wise Man's Fear

Source: The Wise Man's Fear

“I believe it, Chronicler found himself thinking. Before it was just a story, but now I can believe it. This is the face of a man who has killed an angel.”

Patrick Rothfuss book The Name of the Wind

Source: The Name of the Wind

“I've always liked the moonless night best. It's easier to say things in the dark. It's easier to be yourself.”

Patrick Rothfuss book The Wise Man's Fear

Source: The Wise Man's Fear

“What are the three most important rules of the chemist?"

This I knew from Ben. "Label clearly. Measure twice. Eat elsewhere.”

Patrick Rothfuss book The Name of the Wind

Source: The Name of the Wind

“If you fall, you fall," Elodin shrugged. "Sometimes falling teaches us things too." In dreams you often fall before you wake.”

Patrick Rothfuss

“I've never really understood the desire people have to quantify a baby. "He's X big and Y long," As if the baby is a fish you're not sure you're going to keep. Or some prize potato you're hoping will win a prize at the county fair.”

Patrick Rothfuss

“Dawn was coming. The Waystone Inn lay in silence, and it was a silence of three parts.”

Patrick Rothfuss book The Wise Man's Fear

Source: The Wise Man's Fear

“Beer dulls a memory, brand sets it burning, but wine is the best for a sore heart's yearning.”

Patrick Rothfuss book The Name of the Wind

Source: The Name of the Wind

“To be both rich and handsome was bad enough. But to have a voice like honey over warm bread on top of that was simply inexcusable.”

Patrick Rothfuss book The Wise Man's Fear

Source: The Wise Man's Fear

“Feel free to call me by my first name: Master.”

Patrick Rothfuss book The Name of the Wind

Source: The Name of the Wind