Quotes from Patrick Rothfuss

She nodded seriously. "That's as much as I've guessed too." She paused to look at the circle the horizon made around us. The wind caught her hair and she brushed it back again. "Do you happen to know where I'm going?

I have heard it from the mouths of the Edema Ruh, so I know it to be true.

Las preguntas que no podemos contestar son las que más nos enseñan. Nos enseñan a pensar

What was that shameful display?" Wilem demanded after she had gone. "What?" I asked. "What?" he mocked my tone. "Can you even pretend to be that thick? If a girl as fair as that looked at me with one eye the way she looked at you with two…We'd have a room by now, to say it carefully.

Los secretos son la piedra angular de la civilización, y sé que tú tienes más que la mayoría de la gente. —Yo no creo que tenga secretos —lo contradije. Sim y Fela rompieron a reír a la vez. —Me temo que acabas de demostrar que Sim tiene razón —dijo Fela—. A mí me consta que tienes unos cuantos. —Y a mí también —dijo Sim.

But how quickly you can finger notes is the smallest part of music. The real key is timing.

an irrational and overpowering attraction

Luckily, languages are like musical instruments: the more you know, the easier it is to pick up new ones.

I leave it to Pater Leoden to distribute the remainder of my worldly goods among the parish, as, being an immoral soul, I will have no further need of them." "You mean, immortal, don't you?" Chronicler asked uncertainly.

This is why there are so few true musicians. A lot of folks can sing or saw out a tune on a fiddle. A music box can play a song flawlessly, again and again. But knowing the notes isn't enough. You have to know how to play them. Speed comes with time and practice, but timing you are born with. You have it or you don't.

It is quiet, and when the belling tower strikes the late hour, it doesn't break the silence so much as it underpins it.

Being able to think about two disparate things at once, aside from being wonderfully efficient, was roughly akin to being able to sing harmony with yourself. It turned into a favorite game of mine. After two days of practicing I was able to sing a trio. Soon I was doing the mental equivalent of palming cards and juggling knives.

Il y a peu de choses aussi répugnantes qu'une obéissance aveugle.

I read that young Netalia Lackless had run away with a troupe of traveling performers.

few men acted even for their own good, let alone the good of others.

But a word is nothing but a painting of a fire. A name is the fire itself.

Mit Worten über Worte sprechen zu wollen, das ist, als würde man versuchen, mit einem Bleistift eben diesen Bleistift zu zeichnen, und zwar auf dem Bleistift sebst. Unmöglich. Verwirrend. Frustrierend.

No sabía con certeza de qué huía, a menos que fuera de la gente. Esa era otra lección que había aprendido, quizá demasiado bien: la gente hacía daño.

A long stretch of road will teach you more about yourself than a hundred years of quiet introspection

I simply gave her my most charming smile. I'd already told her the truth of things: I was no gentleman. I was a thief.

No. It doesn't really burn technically. It simply breaks down.

Para qué voy a llevar un puñal? —replicó ella—. Soy una dulce y delicada flor, ¿no? Una mujer que se pasea exhibiendo un puñal solo busca problemas. —Metió una mano en un bolsillo y sacó un largo y delgado trozo de metal con uno de los bordes reluciente—. Sin embargo, una mujer que esconde un puñal está preparada por si surgen problemas. En general, es más cómodo aparentar que eres inofensiva. Menos problemático.

We Ruh are travelers. Our lives are composed of meetings and partings with brief, bright acquaintances in-between. - Kvothe

No fickleness in flight like that of wind or women's fancy,