Quotes from Patrick Rothfuss

La dulce sonrisa de una mujer joven: no hay nada mejor en el mundo. Es más valiosa que la sal. Sin ella, algo enferma y muere dentro de nosotros. Estoy seguro. Una cosa tan simple. Qué raro. Qué maravilloso y qué raro. Penthe

You'd be amazed at how similar arrogance and confidence look at first glance.

Los ojos emocionados de una joven tienen algo poderosamente cautivador. Pueden arrancarle todo tipo de tonterías a un joven estúpido, y yo no he sido la excepción de esta regla

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

In dreams you often fall before you wake.

That is an excellent question! 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.

Don't put a spoon in your eye over it

I do not love words for the sake of words. I love words for what they can accomplish. Similarly, I am no arithmetician. Numbers that speak only of numbers are of little interest to me.

The old huntsman was a surprisingly good teacher. He didn't belabor his points, didn't talk down to us, and didn't mind questions. Even Tempi's trouble with the language didn't frustrate him. Even

rabia puede calentarte por la noche, y el orgullo herido puede alentar a un hombre a hacer cosas maravillosas.

I hope they spent those last few hours well. I hope they didn't waste them on mindless tasks: kindling the evening fire and cutting vegetables for dinner. I hope they sang together, as they so often did. I hope they retired to our wagon and spent time in each other's arms. I hope they lay near each other afterward and spoke softly of small things. I hope they were together, busy with loving each other, until the end came. It

I do not have much in me that might encourage a woman to make long habit of my company.

Some small rational part of me realized I was in deep shock. It repeated the fact to me again and again. I did not want to think of what I saw. I did not want to know what had happened here. I did not want to know what any of this meant.

I WOKE IN A BED. In a room. In an inn. More than that was not immediately clear to me. It felt exactly like someone had hit me in the head with a church.

Les livres ne sont qu'un pauvre substitut à la compagnie féminine, mais ils sont plus faciles à trouver.

It had been treated unkindly in the past, but that didn't make it less lovely underneath.

No man is brave that has never walked a hundred miles. 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 than a hundred years of quiet introspection

Poetry is a song without music," I said loftily. "A song without music is like a body without a soul.

he was often heard to say, 'I won the only duel I ever lost.

Antes de las entrevistas, los alumnos estudiaban obsesivamente. Y después bebían para celebrarlo o para consolarse. Como consecuencia de ello, durante los once días de Admisiones la mayoría de los alumnos andaban nerviosos y exhaustos, en el mejor de los casos.

The secret is to concentrate on what you're doing. Don't look at the ground. Don't look over your shoulder. Ignore the world and trust it to return the favor.

nearly half full, seating about two hundred students. The room was

El secreto consiste en concentrarte en lo que estás haciendo. No debes mirar al suelo. No debes girar la cabeza. Debes olvidarte del mundo y confiar en que el mundo te devuelva el favor.

the only act of creation I accomplished was to magically transform nearly a gallon of coffee into marvelous, aromatic piss.