Don't get me wrong, magic is cool. But a nervous mother singing to her child at night while something moves quietly through the dark outside her house? That's a story. Handled properly, it's more dramatic than any apocalypse or goblin army could ever be.
Patrick Rothfuss
Related Don't get me wrong, magic is cool. But a nervous mother singing to her child at night while some... PATRICK ROTHFUSS If you want to write a fantasy story with Norse gods, sentient robots, and telepathic dinosaurs, you... PATRICK ROTHFUSS I held her in my arms last night," he said quietly. "And when I felt her every response, I thought, ... JOEY W. HILL Whether or not a house stands with her or not through it says more about the house than it does abou... SHARON STONE I steal a kiss from her sleeping shadow moves. 'Cause I'll always miss her wherever she goes. And I... BILLY CORGAN I don't care if she ever makes a basket that can hold grain, but I want her to be here with me. I wa... SHAY SAVAGE No one in my family or my circle of friends had ever had to confront something like this. Jamie was ... NICHOLAS SPARKS Having a child doesn't make a woman a mother any more than owning a paintbrush makes her Frida K... KOREN ZAILCKAS I want to confess. I thought that her story was comprised of scenes. I thought the tragedy could be ... NINA LACOUR The pale child, Eve, leading her mother, Night. ALEXANDER SMITH Her silent singing wrapped around the story she was telling herself, which she extended further ever... ALICE MUNRO Many persons grow insensibly attached to that which gives them a great deal of trouble, as a mother ... CHARLES MACKAY He had a harder time helping her out though. He was asleep while she was doing stars. Without wings,... LAURIE FRANKEL He had a harder time helping her out though. He was asleep while she was doing stars. Without wings,... LAURIE FRANKEL A mother is neither cocky, nor proud, because she knows the school principal may call at any minute ... MARY KAY BLAKELY A mother is neither cocky, nor proud, because she knows the school principal may call at any minute ... MARY KAY BLAKELY People live for eating,but
I eat for survive OM BENIWAL When I was a child, next to my own mother, no woman that ever lived took as much interest in me, gav... HEBER J. GRANT Its going to add more time to our trips, but I dont foresee it to be any more difficult than it is t... DAVID HUFFMAN The Crab and Its Mother
A crab said to her son, Why do you walk so one-sided, my child? It is far mo... AESOP You love your virtue as the mother her child; but when was it heard of a mother wanting to be paid f... FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE You love your virtue as the mother her child; but when was it heard of a mother wanting to be paid f... FREDRICK NIETZCHE I'll show up at every classroom open house and teacher conference,' she said, now in a voice that wa... CHARLAINE HARRIS For whatever reason, I made the Goblin Queen nervous. Kurag had proposed marriage once upon a time, ... LAURELL K. HAMILTON A mother can read all the child-rearing books and can subscribe to any theory of parenting, but what... LAURENCE SHAMES One of the strongest loves I’ve ever witnessed is the love a mother has for her child. RICHELLE E. GOODRICH A girl as small as a violet, a girl who moves like a flower petal – is pulling me toward her with ... KIM IN YOOK She is a little bit dramatic when she wins and it takes her a while to get to the net, LINDSAY DAVENPORT Even a strong child, a powerful child, would be dependent on the adults around her. If her strength ... ANNE BISHOP The more a mother intrudes with her advice into her married daughter’s house, the more she spoils ... ANUJ SOMANY Looks like my baby dont live here no more...thats alright, ive still got my guitar..................... JIMI HENDRIX She was sleeping on the bed like a novel that is yet to be read and he sat on the floor, reading her... AKSHAY VASU I've stood outside my house in Montana looking at the northern lights... crackling against the n... CHRISTOPHER PAOLINI If a good mother is one who loves her child more than anyone else in the world, I am not a good moth... AYELET WALDMAN It’s not like love at first sight, really. It’s more like… gravity moves. When you see her, su... STEPHENIE MEYER If a mother is mourning not for what she has lost but for what her dead child has lost, it is a comf... C.S. LEWIS If we accept that a mother can kill even her own child, how can we tell other people to not kill eac... MOTHER TERESA OF CALCUTTA It's hard for me to talk to her. All I can do when I look at her is think about the day when I won't... NICHOLAS SPARKS When I met a truly beautiful girl, I would tell her that if she spent the night with me, I would wri... ROMAN PAYNE She gets really nervous - super nervous. Her stomach always drives her nuts. It seems like it's alwa... PETER FOLEY Because the truth is, while bulimia is a devastating illness I would wish upon no one, it has taught... SHANNON KOPP My grandmother spent her whole life working as a maid, a cook and a babysitter, barely scraping by, ... JULIAN CASTRO I had an awesome time. I was nervous because I've never done any type of construction work -- but it... MARIEL HAAG Crazy isn't being broken or swallowing a dark secret. It's you or me amplified. If you ever told a l... SUSANNA KAYSEN She had been defeated by herself alone, and the sadness of it left a dark shadow in her heart. It fu... YO YO It was a nightmare nobody should have to endure, and I decided to make sure no other mother would ev... LINDA YOUNG The Parks family is a very, very close family and they are grieving and supporting the mother who lo... DAVID KALISH My mother is such a lousy cook that Thanksgiving at her house is a time of sorrow. RITA RUDNER The professor leaned forward. “But there’s nothing more profound than creating something out of ... RAINBOW ROWELL I wandered over across the hall where they were showing a short movie about vasectomies. Much later ... DENIS JOHNSON How would Elijah ever understand a life that is dark more than light? Or a shadow of someone who fol... CHRISTY A. CAMPBELL My mother looked back at me while my father drove. Her long auburn hair was shimmering in the flicke... ZARA STEEN Have you ever seen a child sitting on its mother’s knee listening to fairy stories? As long as the... SELMA LAGERLöF Growing up in the fifties and sixties, I can only remember knowing one child, ever, whose parents go... JOYCE MAYNARD Lo! at the couch where infant beauty sleeps;
Her silent watch the mournful mother keeps;
She,... THOMAS CAMPBELL At night I told myself a story, wordless, inside my head, one I liked far better than those in my bo... ALICE HOFFMAN Madlen came to sit beside her on the bed. "Lady Queen," she said with her own particular brand of ro... KRISTIN CASHORE Her grandmother was a drug dealer. Her mother was a drug addict, and she never knew her father. Nico... GARY W. ADAIR It was cool to be there with my sister. To be at any race with her is comforting. ERIKA GHENT A mother wants her daughter married well, but her sister doesn’t want her married better than she ... VIKRANT PARSAI Her legacy and testament are the words in her book. I am very proud she chose me to tell her story, ... ANDREW MORTON The wrath of God is never an evil wrath. God gets angry because he loves people like a mother would ... CRISS JAMI She's starting to get calls asking her to perform. When she first started singing, people would appr... MICHELLE SANDOVAL Was I ever crazy? Maybe. Or maybe life is… Crazy isn’t being broken or swallowing a dark secret.... SUSANNA KAYSEN The streets were dark with something more than night. RAYMOND CHANDLER My mom, she is the most unbelievable mom that you could ever have in your entire life and she's alwa... DAKOTA FANNING Child, that is why all the rest are now a horror to her. That is what happens to those who pluck and... C.S. LEWIS I saw some piglets suckling their dead mother. After a short while they shuddered and went away. The... CONFUCIUS The mother who spoils her child, fattens a serpent SPANISH PROVERB The only way to properly train a child is by friending his or her young mind with productive & posit... DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) For a mother the project of raising a boy is the most fulfilling project she can hope for. She can w... ANDREA DWORKIN I told her I wanted a plastic surgeon to sew me up, and I wanted her to freeze my ovaries, so I coul... FRAN DRESCHER There is no pain greater than a lover who just got heartbroken and a mother who has lost her child. OLASOT ... My mother, daroga, my poor, unhappy mother would never... let me kiss her... She used to run awa... GASTON LEROUX My mother is looking forward to it even more than me! I'll be showing her the bright lights of N... TOM FELTON In America a woman loses her independence for ever in the bonds of matrimony. While there is less co... ALEXIS DE TOCQUEVILLE For many people, the shock of sexual abuse pales before the shock of this mother’s statement, “I... JUDITH LEWIS HERMAN There is no one I have ever known who personified more the loving, caring universal mother figure. S... MARGARET JOHNSTON My father who was there in the house, he wasn't at all a role model. And my mother, who was tryi... TYLER PERRY Her eye (I'm very fond of handsome eyes)
Was large and dark, suppressing half its fire
Until s... LORD BYRON (GEORGE GORDON NOEL BYRON) At least two or three of them had been camping outside of her house for five days. MARCEL PARISEAU She held her sword like she was ready to use it on anyone who got close. Darquesse could see her own... DEREK LANDY As the Dark Lord becomes ever more powerful, your race is set still more firmly above mine! Gringott... J.K. ROWLING Gently Agatha touched her face in the mirror, glowing from inside. A face no one recognized be... SOMAN CHAINANI Being young was her thing, and she was the best at it. But every year, more and more girls came out ... B.J. NOVAK Her self lagged behind her anger, like a mother picking up after a destructive child. MATTHEW DE ABAITUA I think my mother is my biggest influence. There are so many things I hate about her but at the same... NIKKI REED Day followed day, and night followed night, until Dany knew she could not endure a moment longer. Sh... GEORGE R.R. MARTIN Losing Sarah and my boy was the hardest thing I've ever lived through. But even then, you see, I kne... JENNIFER ASHLEY I believe in energy like dark energies. I believe that when a family moves into a house where six mu... RYAN REYNOLDS A queen could leave her throne. But a mother never leaves her son. V.E. SCHWAB Poetry is certainly something more than good sense, but it must be good sense, just as a palace is m... SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE There was something factitious and brittle and thereby utterly feminine about her charm which made m... IRIS MURDOCH In a world full of war, famine, oppression, deceit, monotony, what—apart from the eternal innocenc... HENRY MULISCH If a mother can kill her own child - what is left for me to kill you and you to kill me - there is n... MOTHER TERESA Her work ethic. We're trying to get her to work harder in practice. Last year it was at a five out o... RON EDMONDS No one but Night, with tears on her dark face, watches beside me in this windy place. EDNA ST. VINCENT MILLAY She has been more than a mother than me - not much, but definitely more... She's been an unsolic... CARRIE FISHER She never lets anything get to her. If something goes wrong, she puts that in the back of her mind a... RAVON ANDERSON You can love her with everything you have and she still wont belong to you. She will run wild with y... NIKKI ROWE
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PATRICK ROTHFUSS She washed he hands,then looked at my side. "you haven't even had it stitched?" She said incredulous... PATRICK ROTHFUSS Maple. Maypole Catch and carry. Ash and Ember. Elderberry. Woolen. Woman. M... PATRICK ROTHFUSS Maple. Maypole Catch and carry. Ash and Ember. Elderberry. Woolen. Woman. M... PATRICK ROTHFUSS Love is blind, and a deaf-mute too. PATRICK ROTHFUSS ...it is better to have a mouthful of poison than a secret of the heart. PATRICK ROTHFUSS Only a fool worries over what he can’t control. PATRICK ROTHFUSS Sought we the Scrivani word-work of Surthur Long-lost in ledger all hope forgotten. Yet fa... PATRICK ROTHFUSS Vashet: “I will admit, I’ve never had a studen offer himself up for a vicious beating in order t... PATRICK ROTHFUSS Death was like an unpleasant neighbor. You didn’t talk about him for fear he might hear you and de... PATRICK ROTHFUSS It was only then I realized I didn't know the name of Elodin's class. I leafed through the ledger un... PATRICK ROTHFUSS I swear I've never met a man who has your knack for lack of social grace. If you weren't naturally c... PATRICK ROTHFUSS Re'lar Kvothe," he said seriously. "I am trying to wake your sleeping mind to the subtle language th... PATRICK ROTHFUSS I know," she said. "You have a stone in your heart, and some days it's so heavy there is nothing to ... PATRICK ROTHFUSS Words can light fires in the minds of men. Words can wring tears from the hardest hearts. PATRICK ROTHFUSS You never do things the easy way, do you?" she said. "There's an easy way?" I asked. PATRICK ROTHFUSS How about this?' Simmon asked me. "Which is worse, stealing a pie or killing Ambrose?" I gave i... PATRICK ROTHFUSS Knowing your own ignorance is the first step to enlightenment. PATRICK ROTHFUSS You can divide infinity an infinite number of times, and the resulting pieces will still be infinite... PATRICK ROTHFUSS Books are a poor substitute for female companionship, but they are easier to find. PATRICK ROTHFUSS Half of seeming clever is keeping your mouth shut at the right times. PATRICK ROTHFUSS A poet is a musician who can't sing. PATRICK ROTHFUSS The truth is that the world is full of dragons, and none of us are as powerful or cool as we’d lik... PATRICK ROTHFUSS Strength of body. Strength of mind. strength of personality. All this things lie within a person. Th... PATRICK ROTHFUSS For all that she lacked your fire. PATRICK ROTHFUSS Upon him I will visit famine and a fire, Till all around him desolation rings And all the ... PATRICK ROTHFUSS One wife, you're happy, two and you're tired, three and they'll hate each other, four and they'll ha... PATRICK ROTHFUSS That is how heavy a secret can become. It can make blood flow easier than ink. PATRICK ROTHFUSS There's looking and there's looking. When some men look at you it's a greasy thing. It makes you wan... PATRICK ROTHFUSS I WOKE IN A BED. In a room. In an inn. More than that was not immediately clear to me. It felt exact... PATRICK ROTHFUSS She didn't know any better. Nobody had ever told her that she couldn't. Because of this, she moved t... PATRICK ROTHFUSS in my opinion if you have a secret compartment in your lute case and don't use it to hide things, th... PATRICK ROTHFUSS If you want to write a fantasy story with Norse gods, sentient robots, and telepathic dinosaurs, you... PATRICK ROTHFUSS But I'm collecting the story of his life. The real story.' Chronicler made a helpless gesture. 'With... PATRICK ROTHFUSS I do not understand this man," [Tempi] said. "Is he attempting to buy sex with me? Or does he wish t... PATRICK ROTHFUSS You are an educated man. You know there are no such things as demons." Bast smiled a terrible smile.... PATRICK ROTHFUSS ...nothing in the world is harder than convincing someone of an unfamiliar truth. PATRICK ROTHFUSS Power is okay, and stupidity is usually harmless. Power and stupidity together are dangerous". PATRICK ROTHFUSS Truth is a troublesome motherfucker unless it's handled properly PATRICK ROTHFUSS Why would I want to win anything other than a beautiful game? PATRICK ROTHFUSS Patience and propriety. It was the only graceful thing to do. PATRICK ROTHFUSS She looked at me. "What? Is there something wrong with my idea?" "It's not very heroic," I said... PATRICK ROTHFUSS It´s one thing to enjoy a story, but it´s quite another to take it for the truth. PATRICK ROTHFUSS Today,' Elodin said brightly, 'we will talk about things that cannot be talked about. Specifically, ... PATRICK ROTHFUSS I guess I'm doomed to die loveless. PATRICK ROTHFUSS Its like he knows he's better than you, but doesn't look down on you for it because he knows it's no... PATRICK ROTHFUSS She smiled like knife on a velvet, she stretched like cat on the sun. PATRICK ROTHFUSS Wilem: 'What is the word for that here? A man who is intimate with both women and men?' 'Lucky?... PATRICK ROTHFUSS Are you hurt?" "Absolutely," I said. "Especially in my everywhere. PATRICK ROTHFUSS I was one of those. I meddled with dark powers. I summoned demons. I ate the entire little chee... PATRICK ROTHFUSS