Quotes from Patrick Rothfuss

No es que espere que salgáis en busca de Haliax y los Siete. «Hombres pequeños, actos pequeños», digo yo siempre. Imagino que el problema reside en encontrar un trabajo lo bastante pequeño para unos hombres como vosotros. Pero tenéis recursos. Podríais recoger basura, o mirar si hay piojos en las camas de los burdeles cuando los visitáis.

Never fool yourself into perceiving things that don't exist.

The man had true-red hair, red as flame. His eyes were dark and distant, and he moved with the subtle certainty that comes from knowing many things. The

ponder my vast cleverness while I sleep. Wake me when you need anything else figured out.

Call a jack a jack. Call a spade a spade. But always call a whore a lady. Their lives are hard enough, and it never hurts to be polite." Hetera

When you're alone it's easy to sweat, panic, fall apart …

Abenthy gave me an appraising look. I'd been waiting for it. It was the look that said, "You don't sound as young as you look." I hoped he'd come to grips with it fairly soon. It gets tiresome being spoken to as if you are a child, even if you happen to be one.

In my defense, I could have dispensed with the truth entirely and told a much better story. Lies are simpler, and most of the time they make better sense. Losi

Reputation is like a sort of armor, or a weapon you can brandish, if need be".

When you're alone, it's easy to be afraid.

I never understood how galling it was. Some smug bastard with a ledger comes into town, makes you pay for the privilege of owning something.

so höre denn, was zu hören lohnt: es fürchte der weise die nacht ohne mond.

You know the type, some tight-laced spinster with a mouth like a cat's ass.

The saying "time heals all wounds" is false. Time heals most wounds. The rest are hidden behind this door. Third

Every place has its little superstitions, and everyone laughs at what the folk across the river think.

title of the class was listed in fresh dark ink: "Introduction to Not Being a Stupid Jackass.

I was onstage. And there is nowhere in the world I am more comfortable than on a stage.

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

Un árbol no provoca una tormenta, pero cualquier idiota sabe dónde va a caer el rayo.

Every culture is different, but one thing is always true: the surest way to give offense is to refuse the hospitality of your host.

Si c'est un valet, annonce un valet. Si c'est un pique, annonce un pique. Mais pour une putain, tu dois toujours dire une « dame ». Leur vie est déjà assez pénible, et la politesse n'a jamais tué personne

Es la postura [...]. Erguido, con el cuello recto, los hombros hacia atrás [...]. Cuando da un paso, pisa con toda la planta del pie. No solo con la parte anterior, como si corriera; ni con el talón, como si vacilara. Pisa sólidamente, exigiendo ese trozo de suelo.

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 no matter how small or stubborn the mind of the man who listens.

Unfortunately, Felurian wasn't the mine of information I'd hoped. She knew stories of the Amyr, but they were thousands of years old. When I asked her about the more recent Amyr, asking about church knights and the Ciridae with their bloody tattoos, she merely laughed. "there were never any human amyr," she said, dismissing the idea out of hand. "those you speak of sound like children dressing in their parents' clothes.