Quotes from Patrick Rothfuss

It is every man's job to improve himself. A man without the benefits of education is hardly more than an animal.

Lloraba en silencio por ella misma, porque había algo profundamente herido en su interior. Yo ignoraba qué era, ni me atrevía a preguntárselo. Me limitaba a decir lo que podía para calmar su dolor y la ayudaba a cerrar los ojos para rehuir la realidad.

I assumed the girl was a passenger like myself. She was my age, perhaps a year older, but a year makes a great deal of difference at that time of life. The Tahl have a saying about children of our age. The boy grows upward, but the girl grows up.

If you were my son, I would not let you leave the house. As my student, it is only tolerable because you are a barbarian. It's as if Tempi brought home a dog that can whistle. The fact that you are out of tune stands quite beside the point.

told hard lies and harder truths. Once, I sang colors to a blind man. Seven hours I played,

Isn't that the way of the world? we want the sweet things but we need the unpleasant ones".

No demuestres humildad a menos que la sientas.

Because of this my progress was frustratingly slow, but I couldn't help but be fascinated. It was like suddenly being given a second tongue. And it was a secret thing, of sorts. I have always had a weakness for secrets.

Hay dos formas infalibles de perder a un amigo: una es pedirle dinero prestado, y la otra, prestárselo».

It would have been better if you'd been guilty in a quiet way, rather than be innocent so loud.

your wit will defend you more often than a sword. Keep it sharp!

I do not hope that this will be the one, for hoping is a foolish game.

There were tears once or twice. But not for the men she had lost or the men she had left. They were quiet tears for herself, because there was something inside her that was badly hurt. I couldnt tell what it was and didnt dare to ask. Instead I simply said what I could to take the pain away and helped her shut her eyes against the world.

think things are usually bad one way or another," he said. "It might be that only us older folk can see it.

And a ring of red amber that gives me power over demons. And an endless supply of cake.

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

It's the questions we can't answer that teach us the most. They teach us how to think.

But for most practical purposes Tarbean had two pieces: Waterside and Hillside. Waterside is where people are poor. That makes them beggars, thieves, and whores. Hillside is where people are rich. That makes them solicitors, politicians, and courtesans. I

Consanguinity, which says, 'a piece of a thing can represent the whole of a thing.

What? No defense? Any student of mine must be able to defend his ideas against an attack. No matter how you spend your life, your wit will defend you more often than a sword. Keep it sharp! I

IN THE THEOPHANY, TECCAM writes of secrets, calling them painful treasures of the mind. He explains that what most people think of as secrets are really nothing of the sort. Mysteries, for example, are not secrets. Neither are little-known facts or forgotten truths. A secret, Teccam explains, is true knowledge actively concealed. Philosophers

Estuviera donde estuviese, siempre era el centro de todas las miradas, -Kvothe frunció el seño-. No me interpretéis mal. No quiero decir que fuera llamativa, ni vanidosa. Si miramos el fuego es porque parpadea, porque resplandece. Lo que hace que un hombre se acerque al fuego no tiene nada que ver con su resplandor. Lo que te atrae del fuego es el calor que sientes cuando te acercas a él. Con Denna pasaba lo mismo.

I had to push him a bit," I said. "Superstitious folk don't like to talk about things they're afraid of. He was about to clam up, and I needed to know what he'd seen in the forest." "I could have gotten it out of him," she said. "More flies with honey and all that.

I am. We are. She is. He was. They will be.