Quotes from Patrick Rothfuss

You can divide infinity an infinite number of times, and the resulting pieces will still be infinitely large,

The room was full of murmured conversation as wealthy customers gambled, drank, and talked about whatever rich people talk about. How to properly beat the stable boy, I guessed. Or techniques for chasing the chambermaid around the estate.

You can divide infinity an infinite number of times, and the resulting pieces will still be infinitely large. But if you divide a non-infinite number an infinite amount of times the resulting pieces are non-infinitely small. Since they are non-infinitely small, but there are an infinite number of them, if you add them back together, their sum is infinite. This implies that any number is, in fact, infinite.

I have heard what poets write about women. They rhyme and rhapsodize and lie. I have watched old sailors on the shore stare mutely at the slow-rolling swell of the sea. I have watched old soldiers with their hearts like leather grow teary-eyed at their king's colours stretched against the wind.

Perhaps it is enough to say that I was caught by a smile.

Podia - Disse Kvothe, com ar sério -, mas não fiz. Fiz uma escolha e me arrependo dela até hoje. Os ossos se consolidam. O arrependimento fica com a gente para sempre.

I called the lightning and it came.

Some streets are dangerous as frothing dogs, where no amount of care will keep you safe.

A great spider of lightning crawled across the sky,

Took an arrow in the knee on my way through the Eld three summers ago. It gives out every now and then." He grimaced and said wistfully, "It's what made me give up the good life on the road." He reached down to touch his oddly bent leg tenderly.

Halfpenny a head. That's right. Anyone without a head gets in free. Thank you, sir.

Cada uno se come una parte. diferente del cerdo —me había dicho—. Si quieres que te. acepten, haz lo mismo.» En diferentes lugares, diferentes decoros.

the silence remained.

Depois que descobri o que estava me incomodando, a maior parte do meu mal-estar desapareceu. O medo costuma provir da ignorância. Uma vez que eu soube qual era o problema, ele se tornou apenas um problema, nada a temer.

was no gentleman.

You're already into me for nine talents.

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.

Los huesos se sueldan. El arrepentimiento perdura para siempre.

I've waited a long time to show these flowers how pretty you are," I said.

I see the problem," I said slowly. "I don't seem to have any behavioral filters.

silence was his. This

Por quê? Porque o orgulho é uma coisa estranha, e porque a generosidade merece ser retribuída com generosidade. Mas foi sobretudo por me parece a coisa certa, e essa é uma razão suficiente.

only fools and priests are never afraid.

beat you like a red-headed stepchild.