Quotes from Patrick Rothfuss

En otoño todo está cansado y más dispuesto a morir.

es mejor tener la boca llena de veneno que un secreto del corazón. Cualquier idiota sabe escupir el veneno, pero nosotros guardamos esos tesoros dolorosos. Tragamos para contenerlos todos los días, obligándonos a permanecer en lo más profundo de nosotros. Ahí se quedan, volviéndose cada vez más pesados, enconándose. Con el tiempo, no pueden evitar aplastar el corazón que los contiene.

It was like cool water on my dry, tired heart. The sweet smile of a young woman. There is nothing better in the world. It is worth more than salt. Something in us sickens and dies without it. I am sure of this. Such a simple thing. How strange. How wonderful and strange.

Over the last month I had pulled a woman from a blazing inferno.

didn't think I could trust you," I said. "I was wrong, and I regret it. It wasn't the clearest thinking I've ever done.

I was looking for a place to put my blood," I said. "Most people keep that inside, she said. "It's easier.

Oh yes. Fulcrum had broken, but that wasn't wrong. Eggs break. Horses break. Waves break. Of course he broke. How else could someone so all certain-centered let his perfect answers out into the world? Some things were jut too true to stay.

Los nombres reflejan la verdadera comprensión de una cosa, y cuando comprendes de verdad una cosa, tienes poder sobre ella.

Time is the great healer, and so on.

Nous sommes bien davantage que la somme des parties qui nous composent,

I am Edema Ruh to my bones. That means my blood is red. It means I breathe the free air and walk where my feet take me. I do not cringe and fawn like a dog at a man's title. That looks like pride to people who have spent their lives cultivating supple spines.

Just a little meddling with dark forces better left alone," I said lightly, holding up the burning shingle.

Everything said, you couldn't hope for a nicer day to have a half dozen ex-soldiers with hunting bows relieve you of everything you owned.

The fire flickered and died. Sleep met him like a lover in an empty bed.

when the lights are out all women are the same height!

Now tell me what I want to know or God will weep when he hears what I've done to you!

Todo vuelve a las cenizas, así que esta carne también arderá. Pero yo soy Tehlu. Hijo de mí mismo. Padre de mí mismo. Yo estaba antes, y estaré después. Si soy un sacrificio, lo soy únicamente a mí mismo. Y si alguien me necesita y me invoca de la forma correcta, volveré para juzgar y castigar.

sympathy is not for the weak of mind.

Algunas eran amargas; otras, dulces. Algunas no eran prácticamente nada. Así es como son las cosas.

My mother once told me she knew a man who owed fealty to himself," I said. "Owed himself a share of his own taxes every year, and if he were ever threatened, there were treaties in place demanding he provide himself with prompt and loyal military support.

O consolo trazido pelas garrafas e pelos livros se apagou num segundo, não deixando em seu olhar nada além de vazio e dor.

You needed money or brains to get into the university, the more of one you had, the less of the other you needed".

He's gentle, which people see as weak. And he's happy, which people see as stupid.

No hay nada que no pueda explicarse. Si algo se puede entender, se puede explicar. Puede ser que alguien no sepa explicarlo bien. Pero eso solo significa que es difícil explicarlo, no que sea imposible.