Patrick Rothfuss Quotes
“… it is better to have a mouthful of poison than a secret of the heart.”
Patrick Rothfuss book The Wise Man's Fear
Source: The Wise Man's Fear
“Only a fool worries over what he can’t control.”
Patrick Rothfuss book The Wise Man's Fear
Source: The Wise Man's Fear
Patrick Rothfuss book The Name of the Wind
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.”
Patrick Rothfuss book The Name of the Wind
Source: The Name of the Wind
Patrick Rothfuss book 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.”
Patrick Rothfuss book The Name of the Wind
Source: The Name of the Wind
“I won the only duel I ever lost.”
Patrick Rothfuss book The Wise Man's Fear
Source: The Wise Man's Fear
“I only know one story. But oftentimes small pieces seem to be stories themselves.”
Patrick Rothfuss book The Name of the Wind
Source: The Name of the Wind
Patrick Rothfuss book The Slow Regard of Silent Things
Source: The Slow Regard of Silent Things
“A poet is a musician who can't sing.”
Patrick Rothfuss book The Name of the Wind
Source: The Name of the Wind
“You are not wise enough to fear me as I should be feared.”
Patrick Rothfuss book The Name of the Wind
Source: The Name of the Wind
“Why would I want to win anything other than a beautiful game?”
Patrick Rothfuss book The Wise Man's Fear
Source: The Wise Man's Fear
“That was another lesson I had learned perhaps too well: people meant pain.”
Patrick Rothfuss book The Name of the Wind
Source: The Name of the Wind
“Some days simply lay on you like stones.”
Patrick Rothfuss book The Slow Regard of Silent Things
Source: The Slow Regard of Silent Things
“The desire for knowledge shapes a man.”
Patrick Rothfuss book The Wise Man's Fear
Source: The Wise Man's Fear
“I like your manly bravado," she said. "Do it some more.”
Patrick Rothfuss book The Name of the Wind
Source: The Name of the Wind
“But sometimes the best help a person can find is helping someone else.”
Patrick Rothfuss book The Wise Man's Fear
Source: The Wise Man's Fear
“Do you just want to get by? Or do you want to make me proud?”
Patrick Rothfuss book The Name of the Wind
Source: The Name of the Wind
“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'll string a fiddle with your guts and make you play it while I dance.”
Patrick Rothfuss book The Name of the Wind
Source: The Name of the Wind
“The seeds of the past bear fruit in the present.”
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
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
