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You can have an interesting story about a person living an interesting life. And if it's done well, that is just as engaging as the end of the world. A million people dying - we can't process. One person, we can process.


Patrick Rothfuss

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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