Patrick Rothfuss book The Wise Man's Fear
Source: The Wise Man's Fear (2011)
Context: We love what we love. Reason does not enter into it. In many ways, unwise love is the truest love. Anyone can love a thing because. That's as easy as putting a penny in your pocket. But to love something despite. To know the flaws and love them too. That is rare and pure and perfect.
Patrick Rothfuss book The Slow Regard of Silent Things
Source: The Slow Regard of Silent Things
Patrick Rothfuss book The Wise Man's Fear
Source: The Wise Man's Fear (2011), Chapter 43, “The Flickering Way” (p. 318)
“Congratulations. That was the stupidest thing I've ever seen. Ever.”
Patrick Rothfuss book The Name of the Wind
Source: The Name of the Wind
“You never do things the easy way, do you?" she said.
"There's an easy way?" I asked.”
Patrick Rothfuss book The Wise Man's Fear
Source: The Wise Man's Fear
“Anger can keep you warm at night, and wounded pride can spur a man to wondrous things.”
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
Patrick Rothfuss book The Slow Regard of Silent Things
Source: The Slow Regard of Silent Things
“Isn't that the way of the world? We want the sweet things, but we need the unpleasant ones.”
Patrick Rothfuss book The Name of the Wind
Source: The Name of the Wind
“Some things simply were too true to stay. Some merely came to visit for a while.”
Patrick Rothfuss book The Slow Regard of Silent Things
Source: The Slow Regard of Silent Things
Patrick Rothfuss book The Name of the Wind
Source: The Name of the Wind (2007), Chapter 7, “Of Beginnings and the Names of Things” (p. 58)
Context: I have been called Kvothe the Bloodless, Kvothe the Arcane, and Kvothe Kingkiller. I have earned those names. Bought and paid for them.
But I was brought up as Kvothe. My father once told me it meant “to know.”
I have, of course, been called many other things. Most of them uncouth, although very few were unearned.
I have stolen princesses back from sleeping barrow kings. I burned down the town of Trebon. I have spent the night with Felurian and left with both my sanity and my life. I was expelled from the University at a younger age than most people are allowed in. I tread paths by moonlight that others fear to speak of during day. I have talked to gods, loved women, and written songs that make the minstrels weep.
You may have heard of me.
“If there is one thing I will not abide it is the folly of a willful pride.”
Patrick Rothfuss book The Name of the Wind
Source: The Name of the Wind
“There are few things as nauseating as pure obedience.”
Patrick Rothfuss book The Name of the Wind
Source: The Name of the Wind (2007), Chapter 75, “Interlude—Obedience” (p. 593)