Patrick Rothfuss citations (246 citations, Page 8)

Joking about Joss Whedon on his "Patrick Rothfuss: Books from Peter V. Brett - Plus an Interview" (14 January 2010) http://www.facebook.com/note.php?note_id=106067582755542
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“Lord but I dislike poetry. How can anyone remember words that aren’t put to music?”

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Patrick Rothfuss livre Le Nom du vent

Source: The Name of the Wind (2007), Chapter 14, “The Name of the Wind” (p. 112)

“Seven things has Lady Lackless
Keeps them underneath her black dress
One a ring that’s not for wearing
One a sharp word, not for swearing
Right beside her husband’s candle
There’s a door without a handle
In a box, no lids or locks
Lackless keeps her husband’s rocks
There’s a secret she’s been keeping
She’s been dreaming and not sleeping
On a road, that’s not for traveling
Lackless likes her riddle raveling.”

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Patrick Rothfuss livre Le Nom du vent

Source: The Name of the Wind (2007), Chapter 11, “The Binding of Iron” (pp. 85-86)

“Mauthen ain’t much for listenen. Nothin’ plugs a man’s ears like money.”

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Source: The Name of the Wind (2007), Chapter 73, “Pegs” (p. 580)

““How do they feel about demons off in Atur?” he asked.
“Scared.” My father tapped his temple. “All that religion makes their brains soft.””

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Patrick Rothfuss livre Le Nom du vent

Source: The Name of the Wind (2007), Chapter 12, “Puzzle Pieces Fitting” (p. 93)

“I’m just very careful with my words when I write. Obsessively careful. I’m the sort of person who worries about the difference between “slim” and “slender.””

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Interview with Peter Hodges and Kate Baker http://www.peter-hodges.com/2008/03/21/author-qa-patrick-rothfuss/

“On his first hand he wore rings of stone,
Iron, Amber, Wood and Bone.
There were rings unseen on his second hand,
One was blood in a flowing band,
One was air all whisper thin,
And the ring of ice had a flaw within.
Full faintly shone the ring of flame,
And the final ring was without name.”

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Patrick Rothfuss livre La Peur du sage

A poem from the second book of the The Kingkiller Chronicle, quoted in an interview at Fantasymundo (1 August 2009) http://www.fantasymundo.com/articulos/2207/fantasymundo_entrevista_patrick_rothfuss_nombre_viento
The Wise Man's Fear (2011)

“That’s a whole new type of stupid.”

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Patrick Rothfuss livre Le Nom du vent

Source: The Name of the Wind (2007), Chapter 73, “Pegs” (p. 580)

“Nobles’ sons are one of nature’s great destructive forces, like floods or tornadoes. When you’re struck with one of these catastrophes, the only thing an average man can do is grit his teeth and try to minimize the damage.”

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Source: The Name of the Wind (2007), Chapter 31, “The Nature of Nobility” (p. 222)

“It’s like this: if you have one piece of cake, and you eat it, that’s fine. If you have two pieces of cake, you should probably share some with a friend. But maybe not. Occasionally we could all use two pieces of cake. But if you have a whole cake, and you eat *all* of it, that’s not very cool. It’s not just selfish, it’s kinda sick and unhealthy.”

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Concerning Cake, Bilbo Baggins and Charity. (19 January 2014) http://blog.patrickrothfuss.com/2014/01/concerning-cake-bilbo-baggins-and-charity/
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“The truth was, I needed to impress them. I knew from my previous discussions with Ben that you needed money or brains to get into the University. The more of one you had, the less of the other you needed.”

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Source: The Name of the Wind (2007), Chapter 36, “Less Talents” (p. 251)

“My name is Kvothe, pronounced nearly the same as “Quothe.” Names are important as they tell you a great deal about a person. I’ve had more names than anyone has a right to.
The Adem call me Maedre. Which, depending on how it’s spoken, can mean “The Flame,” “The Thunder,” or “The Broken Tree.””

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Source: The Name of the Wind (2007), Chapter 7, “Of Beginnings and the Names of Things” (p. 57)

“She looked at me. Looked away. “You think too much of me.”
I smiled. “Perhaps you think too little of yourself.””

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Source: The Name of the Wind (2007), Chapter 62, “Leaves” (p. 464)

“You see, there’s a fundamental connection between seeming and being. Every Fae child knows this, but you mortals never seem to see. We understand how dangerous a mask can be. We all become what we pretend to be.”

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Source: The Name of the Wind (2007), Chapter 92, “The Music that Plays” (p. 716)

“So this is the difference between telling a story and being in one, he thought numbly, the fear.”

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Source: The Name of the Wind (2007), Chapter 6, “The Price of Remembering” (p. 49)

“Music is a fine thing, but metal lasts.”

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He struck the table with two huge fingers to emphasize his point....
As I left, I thought about what Kilvin had said. It was the first thing he had said to me that I did not agree with wholeheartedly. Metal rusts, I thought, music lasts forever.
Time will eventually prove one of us right.
Source: The Name of the Wind (2007), Chapter 60, “Fortune” (pp. 443-444; ellipsis represents minor elision of description)