Quotes from Patrick Rothfuss

The old man was going nowhere to nowhere. He had no hat for his head no pack for his back. He had not a penny or a purse to put it in. He barely even owned his own name, and even that had been worn thin and threadbare through the years.

Es música mágica? -preguntó con los ojos como platos. Volví a reír. -Hay gente que lo cree.

Y sí, sabia que ella no tenía razón. Sabía que todo estaba escorado. Sabía que su cabeza estaba desbaratada. Sabía que no era auténtica por dentro. Lo sabía.

Wow," Elodin said after a long pause. He leveled a serious finger at the Lenatti man. "Uresh. Your next assignment is to have sex. If you do not know how to do this, see me after class.

The deeper we went, the stranger things became.

Estaba tan cansado que me habría dormido encima de un caballo al galope. Hasta me habría dormido debajo de un caballo al galope.

I nodded to her. "I bow to your wisdom, Vashet." "You bow to the fact that I am unarguably correct.

El silencio más obvio era una calma hueca y resonante, constituida por las cosas que faltaban

Love is the willingness to do anything for someone [...] Even at detriment to yourself.

I bristled with two dozen new questions. Not so many, you might think, but when you added them to the half-hundred questions I carried with me wherever I went, I was stretched nearly to bursting.

Well, you know what they say: Finding the right analogy is as hard as…

Olí a pelo quemado y confié en no haber perdido las cejas. No quería pasarme un mes con expresión de sorpresa.

Rebosante de júbilo, Auri se puso a bailar. Sus pies descalzos destacaban, blancos, contra la oscuridad suave como el musgo de la alfombra.

If you want to know the truth of who you are, walk until not a person knows your name. Travel is the great leveler, the great teacher, bitter as medicine, crueler than mirror-glass. A long stretch of road will teach you more about yourself.

Words are pale shadows of forgotten names. As names have power, words have power. Words can light fires in the minds of men. Words can wring tears from the hardest hearts. There are seven words that will make a person love you. There are 10 words that will break a strong man's will. But a word is nothing but a painting of a fire. A name is the fire itself.

When we are children we seldom think of the future. This innocence leaves us free to enjoy ourselves as few adults can. The day we fret about the future is the day we leave our childhood behind. It

Hacia finales del verano, oí, sin proponérmelo, una conversación que me sacó de mi estado de dichosa ignorancia. Cuando somos niños, casi nunca pensamos en el futuro. Esa inocencia nos deja libres para disfrutar como pocos adultos pueden hacerlo. El día que empezamos a preocuparnos por el futuro es el día que dejamos atrás nuestra infancia.

History tends to be rather dry but everyone enjoys a story

We were none of us particularly drunk. But then again, none of us were particularly sober, either. Our exact positioning between those two points is a matter of pointless conjecture, and I will waste no time on it.

if I was going to do something, I should take my time and do it right.

Clean, quick, and easy as lying. We know how it ends practically before it starts. That's why stories appeal to us. They give us the clarity and simplicity our real lives lack.

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. Stanchion

Hay silencios que ni las palabras pueden ahuyentar

She handed Mola an apple. "This one has a wish inside it," she said matter-of-factly. "Make sure you know what you want before you take a bite.