Quotes from Patrick Rothfuss

do not notice the night. Perhaps some part of them does, but they are young, and drunk, and busy knowing deep in their hearts that they will never grow old or die. They also know that they are friends, and they share a certain love that will never leave them. The boys know many other things, but none of them seem as important as this. Perhaps they are right.

Hay hombres que entran aquí, sonrientes, con los zapatos muy limpios y los calcetines empolvados. Pero cuando se descalzan, sus pies huelen a rayos. Esas son las personas que ocultan cosas. Tienen secretos apestosos e intentan ocultarlos, como intentan ocultar el hedor de sus pies.

Lei è ovviamente pazza di te. E tu sei pazzo e basta, perciò siete una coppia perfetta.

In our plays, if the Cthaeh's tree is shown in the distance in the backdrop, you know the story is going to be the worst kind of tragedy. It's put there so the audience knows what to expect. So they know everything will go terribly wrong in the end.

He recognized me. Not as other people would, not as a budding hero out of stories. Tapis had no time for such things. He remembered me as the smudgy, starveling boy who fell down his stairs fever-sick and crying one winter night. You could say I loved him even more for that.

Sometimes my mouth just starts talking and it takes my mind a little bit to catch up.

Its a horrible thing to have your body failure, you never think about it when you are young

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

A dog can bark three times without counting.

You know you're clever. That's your weakness. You assume you know what you're getting into, but you don't.

We've wandered too far from civilization, boys. The folk that need me don't trust me, and the ones that trust me can't afford me.

She's a student, not some brass nail you've paid to bang away at.

Thin gentleman, tidy little beard?" He brushed his chin with his fingers. The