“Viajé, amé, perdí, confié y me traicionaron…”
Patrick Rothfuss livre Le Nom du vent
The Name of the Wind
Patrick James Rothfuss, né le 6 juin 1973 à Madison dans le Wisconsin, est un auteur américain de fantasy. Il est l'auteur de la trilogie Chronique du tueur de roi, qui fut repoussée par plusieurs maisons d'éditions avant que le premier tome, Le Nom du vent, ne soit publié en 2007 puis salué par la critique et fasse partie de la New York Times Best Seller list.
Le deuxième tome de sa série Chronique du tueur de roi, La Peur du sage, a été gratifié en juin 2012 du prix David Gemmell du meilleur roman de fantasy. Wikipedia

“Viajé, amé, perdí, confié y me traicionaron…”
Patrick Rothfuss livre Le Nom du vent
The Name of the Wind
Patrick Rothfuss livre Le Nom du vent
The Name of the Wind
Patrick Rothfuss livre Le Nom du vent
The Name of the Wind
“Il y a peu de choses aussi répugnantes qu'une obéissance aveugle.”
Patrick Rothfuss livre Le Nom du vent
The Name of the Wind
Patrick Rothfuss livre Le Nom du vent
The Name of the Wind
Chronique Du Tueur de Roi - Premiere Journee, T1: Le Nom Du Vent
Chronique Du Tueur de Roi - Premiere Journee, T1: Le Nom Du Vent
Chronique Du Tueur de Roi - Premiere Journee, T1: Le Nom Du Vent
“Answers were always important, but they were seldom easy.”
Patrick Rothfuss livre The Slow Regard of Silent Things
Source: The Slow Regard of Silent Things
“Power is okay, and stupidity is usually harmless. Power and stupidity together are dangerous".”
Patrick Rothfuss livre Le Nom du vent
Source: The Name of the Wind
Patrick Rothfuss livre La Peur du sage
Source: The Wise Man's Fear
Patrick Rothfuss livre Le Nom du vent
Source: The Name of the Wind (2007), Chapter 45, “Interlude—Some Tavern Tale” (p. 333)
Patrick Rothfuss livre La Peur du sage
Source: The Wise Man's Fear
“It was more exciting when I didn't know I had permission.”
Patrick Rothfuss livre La Peur du sage
Source: The Wise Man's Fear
Patrick Rothfuss livre Le Nom du vent
Source: Chapter 14, “The Name of the Wind” (p. 113)
Contexte: Remember this son, if you forget everything else. A poet is a musician who can’t sing. Words have to find a man’s mind before they can touch his heart. And, some men’s minds are woeful small targets. Music touches their hearts directly, no matter how small or stubborn the mind of the man who listens.
Patrick Rothfuss livre Le Nom du vent
Source: The Name of the Wind
Patrick Rothfuss livre The Slow Regard of Silent Things
Source: The Slow Regard of Silent Things
“Cruelty never helped the turning of the world.”
Patrick Rothfuss livre 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 livre Le Nom du vent
Source: The Name of the Wind
“… nothing in the world is harder than convincing someone of an unfamiliar truth.”
Patrick Rothfuss livre La Peur du sage
Source: The Wise Man's Fear
“Some things simply were too true to stay. Some merely came to visit for a while.”
Patrick Rothfuss livre The Slow Regard of Silent Things
Source: The Slow Regard of Silent Things
Patrick Rothfuss livre Le Nom du vent
Source: The Name of the Wind (2007), Chapter 7, “Of Beginnings and the Names of Things” (p. 58)
Contexte: 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.
Patrick Rothfuss livre Le Nom du vent
Source: The Name of the Wind (2007), Chapter 43, “The Flickering Way” (p. 323)
Patrick Rothfuss livre La Peur du sage
Source: The Wise Man's Fear
Patrick Rothfuss livre Le Nom du vent
Source: The Name of the Wind
“My bad luck got tangled up with my bad decisions, and I'm paying for it.”
Patrick Rothfuss livre La Peur du sage
Source: The Wise Man's Fear
Patrick Rothfuss livre Le Nom du vent
Source: The Name of the Wind (2007), Chapter 40, “On the Horns” (p. 290)
Contexte: Any student of mine must be able to defend his ideas against an attack. No matter how you spend your life, your wit will defend you more often than a sword. Keep it sharp!
“There is a great deal of difference between a penis and a heart.”
Patrick Rothfuss livre La Peur du sage
Variante: There is a great difference between being fearless and being brave.
Source: The Wise Man's Fear
Patrick Rothfuss livre Le Nom du vent
Source: The Name of the Wind
Patrick Rothfuss livre Le Nom du vent
Source: The Name of the Wind
Patrick Rothfuss livre Le Nom du vent
Source: The Name of the Wind
Patrick Rothfuss livre La Peur du sage
Source: The Wise Man's Fear
“If there is one thing I will not abide it is the folly of a willful pride.”
Patrick Rothfuss livre Le Nom du vent
Source: The Name of the Wind
“All explicit knowledge is translated knowledge, and all translation is imperfect.”
Patrick Rothfuss livre La Peur du sage
Source: The Wise Man's Fear
Patrick Rothfuss livre La Peur du sage
Source: The Wise Man's Fear
Patrick Rothfuss livre La Peur du sage
Source: The Wise Man's Fear