Quotes from Patrick Rothfuss

Demasiada sinceridad te hace parecer falso.

And, of course, the grand failures are as entertaining as the great successes.

Om man säger till henne att hon är vacker tycker hon att man är snäll, men hon tror en inte. Hon vet att skönhet finns i betraktarens ögon...Men det finns ett bättre sätt. Man visar henne att hon är vacker... plötsligt förändras den historia hon berättar för sig själv, inne i huvudet. Hon förvandlas. Hon är inte sedd som vacker. Hon är vacker och sedd". (s. 384)

IN THE FULLNESS OF TIME, and with considerable help from Deoch and Wilem, I became drunk. Thus it was that three students made their slightly erratic way back to the University. See them as they go, weaving only slightly. It is quiet, and when the belling tower strikes the late hour, it doesn't break the silence so much as it underpins

Nobles' sons are one of nature's great destructive forces, like floods or tornadoes. When you're struck with one of these catastrophes, the only thing an average man can do is grit his teeth and try to minimise the damage.

I'm out of sorts all the time,' I said. 'I just don't show it.

If you give a man an answer, all he gains is a little fact. But give him a question and he'll look for his own answers.

It was like we were doing one of those elaborate Modegan court dances, where the partners stand scant inches apart, but—if they are skilled—never touch.

the innocent silence that had gathered like a clear pool around the three men was beginning to darken into a silence of a different kind.

Mi estado de ánimo pasó de la euforia a la duda en lo que se tarda en respirar tres veces.

What makes this a good place?" He looked out over the water for a long time before he answered. "It is an edge," he said at last. "It is a high place with a chance of falling. Things are more easily seen from edges. Danger rouses the sleeping mind. It makes some things clear.

Like a child playing find-and-catch, it was my sincere hope that if I closed my eyes and remained perfectly still, the pain wouldn't be able to find me.

To my patient fans, for reading the blog and telling me what they really want is an excellent book, even if it takes a little longer.

I smelled burning hair and hoped I hadn't lost my eyebrows. I didn't want to spend the next month looking constantly surprised.

So yes. It had flaws, but what does that matter when it comes to matters of the heart? We love what we love. Reason does not enter into it.

Though I didn't know it at the time, I was looking for the name of the wind.

En otoño es el momento idóneo. En otoño todo está cansado y más dispuesto a morir.

laughter is good for the digestion.

la muerte. El último recurso. Después de morir, nada puede hacernos daño, o eso nos han enseñado.

day we fret about the future is the day we leave our childhood behind.

To deem us simply enemies is to lose the true flavor of our relationship

I idly wondered how exactly one was supposed to lounge. I couldn't remember ever doing it myself. After a moment's consideration, I decided lounging was probably similar to relaxing, but with more money in your pocket.

The door sat still as a mountain, quiet and indifferent as the sea on a windless day.

You people are easily confused by the look of things.