Quotes from Patrick Rothfuss

Remember this, son, if you forget everything else. A poet is a musician who can't sing. Words have to find a man's mind before they can touch his heart, and some men's minds are woeful small targets. Music touches their hearts directly no matter how small or stubborn the mind of the man who listens." My

It seems to me a person needs something to be happy about, and I don't have any such thing.

No piensas en mi como yo en ti, no me importa, pero si también tienes frío, podrías acercarte y rodearme con tus brazos. Sólo un poco. Con un nudo en la garganta, me acerqué, me senté a su lado y la abracé. –Qué bien– dijo ella, más relajada–. Es como si hasta ahora siempre hubiera tenido frío.

speak least if you would be most often heard.

Goodness boy, you're like a clear pool. I can see ten feet through you, and you're barely three feet deep.

Teccam writes of secrets, calling them painful treasures of the mind (...) A secret, Teccam explains, is true knowledge actively concealed.

can't tell salt from cyanide by tasting it.

She smelled like road dust, and honey, and the smell the air holds seconds before a heavy summer rain.

This story is for all the slightly broken people out there. I am one of you. You are not alone. You are all beautiful to me. Pat Rothfuss June, 2014 P.

Denna rolled herself into my blanket and curled up with her back to the fire. "I will allow you to ponder my vast cleverness while I sleep. Wake me when you need anything else figured out.

What other option did I have, now that words had failed me? What do any of us have when words fail us?

Music is a proud, temperamental mistress. Give her the time and attention she deserves, and she is yours. Slight her and there will come a day when you call and she will not answer. So

My parents danced together, her head on his chest. Both had their eyes closed. They seemed so perfectly content. If you can find someone like that, someone who you can hold and close your eyes to the world with, then you're lucky. Even if it only lasts for a minute or a day. The image of them gently swaying to the music is how I picture love in my mind even after all these years. Afterward,

Caution suits an arcanist. Assurance suits a namer. Fear does not suit either.

No me importa que me llamen mentiroso. Lo soy. Soy un mentiroso extraordinario. Pero no soporto que me llamen mentiroso cuando estoy diciendo la verdad.

Like most nobility, he was self-centered as a gyroscope,

So this is the difference between telling a story and being in one, he thought numbly, the fear.

felt every year twice tonight, some of them three times.

y los amigos discutían para decidir a quién le tocaba pagar la ronda de cerveza.

leader is not a muscle. A leader is a mind.

The old man was going from nowhere to nowhere. He had no hat for his head and no pack for his back. He had not a penny or a purse to put it in. He barely even owned his own name, and even that had been worn thin and threadbare through the years.

Meus pais dançaram juntos, mamãe com a cabeça no peito dele. Ambos tinham os olhos fechados. Pareciam perfeitamente felizes. Quem consegue encontrar alguém assim, alguém a quem abraçar e com quem fechar os olhos para o mundo, é uma pessoa de sorte. Mesmo que dure apenas um minuto, ou um dia. A imagem deles balançando suavemente ao som da música é como visualizo mentalmente o amor, mesmo decorridos tantos anos.

Cuanto más pobre eres, más valioso es tu orgullo.

Ma koliko ti nešto delovalo privla?no, moraš da odvagaš kolikoj se opasnosti izlažeš. Koliko silno to želiš i koliko si spreman da se ope?eš. Marten