Quotes from Patrick Rothfuss

Besides, anger can keep you warm at night, and wounded pride can spur a man to wondrous things.

Waterside was poor. Hillside was rich. Waterside stank. Hillside was clean. Waterside had thieves. Hillside had bankers -I'm sorry, burglars.

I went looking for a legend and found a lizard. A fascinating lizard, but a lizard just the same.

They had spilled their secrets, and Auri knew full well how heavy hard-held secrets could become.

Beer dulls a memory, brand sets it burning, but wine is the best for a sore heart's yearning.

It's the questions we can't answer that teach us the most. They teach us how to think. If you give a man an answer, all he gains is a little fact. But give him a question and he'll look for his own answers.

si vuelves a decirme una frase de siete palabras, me desmayo. (Denna)

My alar is like the ocean in storm. (Devi)

I (Kvothe) started to say something else, but she (Vashet) put her hand over my mouth. "I've said I understand. Stop fighting after you have won.

I wanted to get inside so badly I could taste it. It probably shows a perverse element of my personality that even though I was finally inside the Archives, surrounded by endless secrets, that I was drawn to the one locked door I had found. Perhaps it is human nature to seek out hidden things. Perhaps it is simply my nature.

I stayed because there was no other place I could learn what I desired. Mere whipping could not keep me away from it." There are things I desire to learn, and I can only learn them here." I handed her the hard, dark piece of wood. "If you want me to leave, you must do worse than welts.

Tradition, my boy, and superstition. They are one and the same, anyway.

There was a cat, and they ignored each other.

Nunca estás donde te busco, y apareces cuando menos lo espero. Como el arco iris.

there was always a part of me that hoped for more, and so there was a part of me that was always a fool.

I brought you a feather with the spring wind in it, but since you were late...' she looked a me gravely, 'you get a coin instead.

It exhasperated her, but she knew better than to force the world to her desire.

This is why we have music, after all. Words cannot always do the work we need them to. Music is there for when words fail us. Finally

You couldn't fight the tide or change the wind. And if there was a storm? Well, a girl should batten down and bail, not run the rigging. How could she help but make a mess of things, the state that she was in? She'd strayed from the true way of things. First you set yourself to rights. And then your house. And then your corner of the sky. And after that . . .

Why wasn't I already kissing this woman? Why wasn't I naked, eating violets, and playing music underneath the open sky? Looking around the room again, everything seemed terribly ridiculous. These people sitting on their benches wearing layers on layers of clothing, eating with knives and forks. It all struck me as so pointless and contrived. It was incredibly funny. It was like they were playing a game and didn't even realize it. It was like a joke I'd never understood before.

Es erwies sich als schwierig, Elodin zu finden. Er hatte zwar ein Büro in den Hollows, nutzte es aber offenbar nicht. Aus dem Vorlesungsverzeichnis erfuhr ich, dass er nur ein einziges Seminar gab: Unwahrscheinlichkeitsrechnung. Diese Information war jedoch nicht sonderlich hilfreich, denn laut Verzeichnis fand das Seminar "jetzt" statt, und als Ort war "überall" angegeben.

Cuando estás muerto, nadie te busca. Los viejos enemigos no intentan ajustar cuentas contigo. La gente no te busca para que le narres historias.

The poorer you are, the more your pride is worth.

Benim yüzümden susay?m deme Kvothe, yoksa sesini özlerim.