Quotes from Patrick Rothfuss

What is word for good together living? Nobody shits in the well." I laughed. "Civilization?" He nodded, splaying his fingers: amusement. "Yes," he said. "Speaking with hands is civilization

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.

The Lethani is like water," I responded without thinking. "It is itself unchanging, but it shapes itself to fit all places. It is both the river and the rain.

Ten times ten thousand books. More than that. More books than you could ever read." Abenthy's voice grew vaguely wistful. More books than I could read? Somehow I doubted that.

Pedirle a un músico que te deje coger su instrumento es como pedirle a un hombre que te deje besar a su esposa. Eso es algo que solo entiendes si eres músico. Un instrumento es como un compañero y una amante. Los desconocidos suelen pedir a los músicos que les dejen coger sus instrumentos, y eso les fastidia mucho.

my father used to say: "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.

There are few things as nauseating as pure obedience,

What could you possibly offer me that is worth the price of remembering?

It tastes like wet mittens.

That is the way it usually goes in stories: the young man has to prove his dedication to the old hermit in the woods before he's taken under his wing.

Puedo hacerte una pregunta, Reshi? Kote sonrió con amabilidad. —Por supuesto, Bast. —¿Una pregunta molesta? —Esas suelen ser las únicas que merecen la pena.

Anyone can love a thing because. That's as easy as putting a penny in your pocket. But to love something despite. To

By speaking out of turn you refuse your turn to speak.

Sí podía —dijo Kvothe con seriedad—. Y no lo hice. Tomé una decisión, y todavía me arrepiento de ella. Los huesos se sueldan. El arrepentimiento perdura para siempre.

my safety and sanity were at stake. I believed the world was more interesting with Kvothe in it

Hay dos cosas que debéis recordar. La primera es que nuestros nombres nos dan forma, y que nosotros damos forma a nuestros nombres.

High spirits mean good begging.

I envied its innocence, its lack of care. Besides, too much sweetness cloys me. As does willful ignorance.

knackered is what he is," he said. "He hasn't got another

y cuando la campana de la torre da la hora, esta no rompe el silencio sino que lo sostiene.

If a leg goes bad, you cut it off." She made a firm gesture with the flat of her hand, then picked up her slice of pudding and began to eat it with her fingers. "And some folk need killing. That's all there is to it.

You've got sort of a wider view.

He just says out loud what other folk keep in the quiet of their hearts.

It was wise enough to know itself and brave enough to be itself and wild enough to change itself while somehow staying altogether true.