Mira, las mujeres son como el fuego, como las llamas. Algunas son como velas, luminosas e inofensivas. Algunas son como chispas, o como brasas, o como las luciérnagas que perseguimos las noches de verano. Algunas son como hogueras, un derroche de luz y de calor para una sola noche, y quieren que después las dejen en paz.Algunas son como el fuego de la chimenea: no muy espectaculares, pero por debajo tienen cálidas y rojas brasas que arden mucho tiempo. Pero Dianne... Dianne es como una cascada de chispas que sale de un afilado cuchillo de hierro que Dios acerca a la piedra de afilar. No puedes evitar mirar, no puedes evitar desearla. Hasta es posible que acerques una mano durante un segundo. pero no puedes dejarla allí. Te partirá el corazón.
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Classic thinking te... PATRICK ROTHFUSS I can't count the men who have tried to seduce me away from my virtue by teaching me how to defend i... PATRICK ROTHFUSS I thought of all the others who had tried to tie her to the ground and failed. So I resisted showing... PATRICK ROTHFUSS You're sure your new roommate won't be like the last one who wore tinfoil socks and had a tendency t... PATRICK ROTHFUSS What I personally knew about courting women could comfortably fit into a thimble without taking it o... PATRICK ROTHFUSS Practice makes the master. PATRICK ROTHFUSS Music is a proud, temperamental mistress. Give her the time and attention she deserves, and she is y... PATRICK ROTHFUSS The law of sympathy is one of the most basic parts of magic. It states that the more similar two obj... PATRICK ROTHFUSS The wild women in his lap,' my father enthused, 'laying their breasts on his head.' There was a... PATRICK ROTHFUSS If we were living in a better age they'd build a temple around a woman like that. PATRICK ROTHFUSS Adamın ateş rengindeki saçları hakiki bir kızıldı. Gözleri koyu renkli ve dalgındı. Adam p... PATRICK ROTHFUSS My alar is like the ocean in storm. (Devi) PATRICK ROTHFUSS Jeder erzählt in seinem eigenen Kopf eine Geschichte über sich. Ununterbrochen. Die ganze Zeit. Un... PATRICK ROTHFUSS Mit Worten über Worte sprechen zu wollen, das ist, als würde man versuchen, mit einem Bleistift eb... PATRICK ROTHFUSS Worte sind die blassen Schatten vergessener Namen. Und wie Namen Macht innewohnt, wohnt auch Worten ... PATRICK ROTHFUSS Jeder von uns hat zweierlei Geist. Einen wachen Geist und einen schlafenden Geist. Unser wacher Geis... PATRICK ROTHFUSS Verstehst du, Frauen sind wie Feuer, wie Flammen. Manche Frauen sind wie Kerzen, hell und freundlich... PATRICK ROTHFUSS Tuan volgen oketh ama ~ Lass dich davon nicht verrückt machen. Wörterlich aber bedeutet es: Steck ... PATRICK ROTHFUSS so höre denn, was zu hören lohnt: es fürchte der weise die nacht ohne mond. PATRICK ROTHFUSS No piensas en mí como yo en ti. No me importa. Pero si también tienes frío, podrías acercarte y ... PATRICK ROTHFUSS Cualquiera puede amar algo por algún motivo. Eso es tan fácil como meterse un penique en el bolsil... PATRICK ROTHFUSS —No piensas en mí como yo en ti. No me importa. Pero si también tienes frío, podrías acercarte... PATRICK ROTHFUSS Solange wir Kinder sind, denken wir nur selten an die Zukunft. Diese Unschuld ermöglicht es uns, un... PATRICK ROTHFUSS Die großartigste Fähigkeit des menschlichen Geistes ist vielleicht die, mit Schmerzen fertig zu we... PATRICK ROTHFUSS Si miramos el fuego es porque parpadea, porque resplandece. Lo que atrae nuestra mirada es la luz, p... PATRICK ROTHFUSS -Una vez, uno de los maestros de la Universidad me dijo que había siete palabras que hacían que un... PATRICK ROTHFUSS Las palabras no siempre pueden hacer el trabajo para el que las necesitamos. La música existe para ... PATRICK ROTHFUSS Es el vicio de mirar atrás. Puedes pasarte la vida mirando hacia atrás, pero no sirve de nada PATRICK ROTHFUSS A pinned butterfly holds no delight. A pinned butterfly is nothing like a butterfly at all. PATRICK ROTHFUSS I tread paths by moonlight that others fear to speak of during day. PATRICK ROTHFUSS Kid's books should be just as good as any other books. No. They should be held to a *higher* standar... PATRICK ROTHFUSS ...unwise love is the truest love. Anyone can love a thing because. That's as easy as putting a penn... PATRICK ROTHFUSS Metal rusts, music lasts forever. PATRICK ROTHFUSS Sólo los sacerdotes y los locos no tienen miedo a nada, y yo nunca me he llevado muy bien con Dios PATRICK ROTHFUSS If I could sum it up in 50 words, I wouldn't have needed to write a whole novel about it. 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