Patrick Rothfuss: Trending quotes (page 9)

“Secrets of the heart. We swallow hard against them every day, forcing them deep inside us. There they sit, growing heavier, festering. Given enough time, they cannot help but crush the heart that holds them.”

“A tinker’s debt is always paid:
Once for any simple trade.
Twice for freely given aid.
Thrice for any insult made.”

“How odd to watch a mortal kindle / Then to dwindle day by day / Knowing their bright souls are tinder / And the wind will have its way”

“Emotions by their very nature are not reasonable things.”

“Some days simply lay on you like stones. Some were fickle as cats, sliding away when you needed comfort, then coming back later when you didn’t want them, jostling at you, stealing your breath.”

“Words cannot always do the work we need them to. Music is there for when words fail us.”

“Small facts lead to great knowing.”

“I scowled as loudly as I could.”

“All stories are true.”

“Soon. She knew. Soon he would come visiting. Incarnadine and sweet and sad and broken. Just like her.”

“Damn chicken. Come eat your dinner. I'm cold.”

“Asleep she was a painting of a fire. Awake she was the fire itself”

“One of them had a large wooden sign nailed to its door proclaiming, NO SYMPATHY! I wondered what non-arcane visitors might think of the warning.”

“Looters become looted, while time and tide make us mercenaries all.”

“The air was heavy with the smell of leather and dust, of old parchment and binding glue. It smelled of secrets.”

“She felt… less. She felt tamped down. Dim. More faint. Feint. Feigned. Fain.”

“I want a magical horse that fits in my pocket," Wil said. "And a ring of red amber that gives me power over demons. And an endless supply of cake.”

“She knew the true shape of the world. All else was shadow and the sound of distant drums.”

“But even this piece of flattery couldn't distract me from the fact that I was in the center of the Fae realm, blind, stark naked, and without the slightest idea of what was going on.”