Quotes from Patrick Rothfuss

there are two types of secrets. There are secrets of the mouth and secrets of the heart. Most secrets are secrets of the mouth. Gossip shared and small scandals whispered. These secrets long to be let loose upon the world. A secret of the mouth is like a stone in your boot. At first you're barely aware of it. Then it grows irritating, then intolerable.

Believe it with a faith that will move mountains and shake trees.

Aquella noche se me ocurrieron diez mil cosas que habría podido decirle.

If not for him, I would never have become the man I am today. I ask that you not hold it against him. He meant well

La miré con intención de decir algo ingenioso, alguna de todas aquellas frases que había pensado la noche anterior. Pero cuando vi sus ojos, las palabras me abandonaron. Me quedé maravillado, no sé cuánto rato. Durante un largo momento fui completamente suyo...

I felt as if I was trying to think through syrup.

Have you ever been annoyed and amused with yourself at the same time? It's an interesting feeling, to say the very least.

Todos nos contamos una historia sobre nosotros mismos. Siempre. Continuamente. Esa historia es lo que nos convierte en lo que somos. Nos construimos a nosotros mismos a partir de esa historia.

A bristling fox is better than a deranged, half-shod idiot.

A tinker's debt is always paid: Once for any simple trade. Twice for freely-given aid. Thrice for any insult made.

You can divide infinity an infinite number of times, and the resulting pieces will still be infinitely large," Uresh said in his odd Lenatti accent. "But if you divide a non-infinite number an infinite number of times the resulting pieces are non-infinitely small. Since they are non-infinitely small, but there are an infinite number of them, if you add them back together, their sum is infinite. This implies any number is, in fact, infinite.

No. You should take pleasure in following the Lethani. If you fight well, you should take pride in doing a thing well. For the fighting itself you should feel only duty and sorrow. Only barbarians and madmen take pleasure in combat. Whoever loves the fight itself has left the Lethani behind.

The answer is that each of us has two minds: a waking mind and a sleeping mind. Our waking mind is what thinks and talks and reasons. But the sleeping mind is more powerful. It sees deeply to the heart of things. It is the part of us that dreams. It remembers everything. It gives us intuition. Your waking mind does not understand the nature of names. Your sleeping mind does. It already knows many things that your waking mind does not.

so fresh in a building with no windows.

IT WAS ONE OF those perfect autumn days so common in stories and so rare in the real world. The weather was warm and dry, ideal for ripening a field of wheat or corn. On both sides of the road the trees were changing color. Tall poplars had gone a buttery yellow while the shrubby sumac encroaching on the road was tinged a violent red. Only the old oaks seemed reluctant to give up the summer, and their leaves remained an even mingling of gold and green.

It's not their fault that the world is full of hard choices and hunger and loneliness," she said. "What can you expect of people when demons are their neighbors?

Owls are wise. They are careful and patient. Wisdom precludes boldness.

What can you expect of people when demons are their neighbors?

a lettuce that thinks it is a lettuce." "It's a clever lettuce then." "Hardly," she said with a delicate snort. "Why would anything clever think it was a lettuce?" "Even if it is a lettuce?" I asked. "Especially then," she said. "Bad enough to be a lettuce. How awful to think you are a lettuce too.

La etiqueta es un puñado de normas que la gente utiliza para poder ser grosera en público con los demás.

We shared an apple, passing it back and forth between bites, which is close to kissing, if you've never kissed before.

A long road will teach you more about yourself than a hundred years of introspection.

Distrust turns quickly to dislike.

Our language is rich with implication, so it is easier for us to accept the existence of things that cannot be explained. The Lethani is the greatest of these.