Quotes from Patrick Rothfuss

La música se explica por sí sola. Es el camino y el mapa que enseña el camino. Es ambas cosas a la vez.

My greatest successes came from decisions I made when I stopped thinking and simply did what felt right. Even if there was no good explanation for what I did." He smiled wistfully. "Even if there were very good reasons for me not to do what I did." Bast

La poesía es una canción sin música. Y una canción sin música es como un cuerpo sin alma.

Hacía todo lo posible para no pensar en eso. Solo un necio se preocupa por lo que no puede controlar.

I just don't understand what you see in her," Sim said carefully. "I know she's charming. Fascinating and all of that. But she seems rather," he hesitated, "cruel." I nodded. "She is.

The worst had happened, and it hadn't been that bad.

We want the sweet things, but we need the unpleasant ones.

Contrary opinions are one thing. Contrary facts are another." I

De qué sirve la atención? Es más, ¿de qué sirve observar? La gente siempre está observando cosas. Lo que debería hacer es ver. Yo veo las cosas que miro. Soy el que ve.

I am sorry to tell you this thing. You are a good man, and a pretty thing. But still, you are only a man. All you have to offer the world is your anger.

but sympathy is not an art for the weak willed

Expect disaster every seven years,'" he said. "It is an old saying, and true enough.

The trouble is, she is unlike anyone I have ever known. There was something intangible about her. Something compelling, like heat from a fire. She had a grace, a spark -

Demasiado tarde! —exclamó, y por un instante adoptó una actitud infantil—. Has mirado demasiado y no has visto suficiente. Mirar demasiado puede impedirte ver, ¿lo ves?

Deferential, but not obsequious. Just because I tread heavily on propriety's toes doesn't mean I can't play the game when it's of use to me.

When my blood tells me to wander, I know enough to trust it.

It was closer to the sound a heavy snowfall makes, a muffled hush that almost makes less noise than no noise at all. Felurian

There is a vast difference between having some coin and no coin. There is a feeling of helplessness that comes from having an empty purse. It's like seed grain. At the end of a long winter if you have some grain left you can use it for seed. You have control over your life. You can use that grain and make plans for the future. But if you have no grain for seed in the spring, you are helpless. No amount of hard work or good intention will make crops grow if you don't have the seed to start with.

you might want to admit the possibility that you are impossibly thick when it comes to women.

I've always prided myself on my lack of panting and sniffing.

But at the end of the day,

I imagine I could do anything," I said easily. "If you would ask it of me.

I found what I had wanted most, yet it was not what I expected." He motioned for Chronicler to pick up his pen. "As is often the case when you gain your heart's desire.

Yo no amenazo a nadie —dije con aire inocente subiendo el tono de voz para que pudiera oírme quien me estuviera escuchando—. Solo cito una de mis obras literarias favoritas. Es del cuarto acto de Daeonica, donde Tarso dice: Sobre él verteré el hambre y el fuego hasta que la desolación lo aturda y todos los demonios de la oscuridad exterior miren asombrados y reconozcan que la especialidad del hombre es la venganza.