Quotes from Patrick Rothfuss

No se trata de ser o no culpable —razonó Manet—. Un árbol no provoca una tormenta, pero cualquier idiota sabe dónde va a caer el rayo. Wilem asintió con gesto grave. —En mi tierra decimos: el clavo más alto es el que primero recibe el martillazo. —Arrugó el entrecejo—. En siaru suena mejor.

This innocence leaves us free to enjoy ourselves as few adults can. The day we fret about the future is the day we leave our childhood behind.

Recuerda que todo hombre sabio teme tres cosas: la tormenta en el mar, una noche sin luna y la ira de un hombre amable.

To ash all things return, so too this flesh will burn. But I am Tehlu. Son of myself. Father of myself. I was before, and I will be after. If I am a sacrifice then it is to myself alone. And if I am needed and called in the proper ways then I will come again to judge and punish.

I have a good memory. That, perhaps more than anything else, sits in the center of what I am. It is the talent upon which so many of my other skills depend.

Selitos gobernaba en Myr Tariniel. Con solo mirar una cosa, Selitos veía su nombre oculto y lo entendía.

Der Tag, an dem wir beginnen, uns Gedanken über die Zukunft zu machen, ist der Tag, an dem wir unsere Kindheit hinter und lassen.

All together, it was enough to start a steady stream of rumor around me, and I decided to take advantage of it. Reputation is like a sort of armor, or a weapon you can brandish if need be. I decided that if I was going to be an arcanist, I might as well be a well-known arcanist.

Names are important as they tell you a great deal about a person. I've had more names than anyone has a right to.

Chronicler looked down, shaking his head. "I don't understand this fear you have of the Cthaeh," he said. "Well," Bast said, "evidence seems to indicate that you're not terribly smart.

just another piece of needless God-bothering that wasn't working properly.

Safe roads are the bones of civilization.

Ambos tenían los ojos cerrados y parecían perfectamente satisfechos. Si encuentras a una persona así, alguien a quien puedas abrazar y con la que puedas cerrar los ojos a todo lo demás, puedes considerarte muy afortunado. Aunque solo dure un minuto, o un día.

Ho imparato che il modo migliore per essere al sicuro è fare in modo che i tuoi nemici pensino di non poterti ferire

So they clutched at her like shipwrecked sailors, clinging to the rocks despite the fact that they are being battered to death against them.

Hecho-dije-. Aunque será duro- Me volví hacia Denna-. ¿Y tú? Te debo un gran favor ¿Cómo puedo devolvértelo? Pídeme lo que quieras y lo haré. Cualquier cosa que este al alcance de mis posibilidades . Veamos, ¿qué sabes hacer, además de tocar tan bien que Telhu y todos los ángeles llorarían si te oyeran?

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.

y en algunos sitios era tal la desesperación que las madres ya no lograban reunir suficiente esperanza para ponerles nombres a sus hijos.

It took him a long miserable time before he realized the truth of things: there is a great deal of difference between a penis and a heart.

Decidí que el tipo no era tan mala persona. Le devolví la sonrisa y, por un instante, casi me sentí culpable por lo que había escrito en el recibo. También me sentí culpable por las tres plumas que le había robado, pero el malestar solo me duró unos segundos. Y como no había ninguna forma conveniente de devolvérselas, antes de marcharme le robé un tintero.

I do not understand this man," he said. "Is he attempting to buy sex with me? Or does he wish to fight?

Qué siente uno cuando sabe adónde va?

the thing before it was burned. One of them had been wounded and the others had been drinking. The priest had seen it

More than a thousand, actually. Ten times ten thousand books. More than that. More books than you could ever read.