Top 500 Patrick Rothfuss Quotes (2024 Update)
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101. “There is nothing quite so delightfully mysterious as a secret in your own backyard.”

— Patrick Rothfuss

102. “I do this so you cannot help but hear. A wise man views a moonless night with fear.”

— Patrick Rothfuss

103. “I firmly believe that we’re all good people, but sometimes it’s hard to understand how to do good.”

— Patrick Rothfuss

104. “Fear tends to come from ignorance. Once I knew what the problem was, it was just a problem, nothing to fear.”

— Patrick Rothfuss

105. “It’s easier to write about heartbreak after you’ve had your heart broken. You have more material to draw from, you can extrapolate from your own experiences and make reasonable assumptions about how your characters would feel and act.”

— Patrick Rothfuss

106. “It wasn’t even a good note. ‘If you are reading this I am probably dead.’ What sort of a note is that?”

— Patrick Rothfuss

107. “Why would I want to win anything other than a beautiful game?”

— Patrick Rothfuss

108. “Fencing is more a sport than a martial art. It would be like basing your knowledge of roman phalanx warfare on NFL football.”

— Patrick Rothfuss

109. “I’m not a role model. I’m an aberation. A statistical anomoly. Following in my footsteps is about the dumbest thing you could ever do.”

— Patrick Rothfuss

110. “Last is the door of death. The final resort. Nothing can hurt us after we are dead, or so we have been told.”

— Patrick Rothfuss

111. “I’ll string a fiddle with your guts and make you play it while I dance.”

— Patrick Rothfuss

112. “Appearance is a type of power.”

— Patrick Rothfuss

113. “Just pity him, my boy. Tomorrow we’ll be on our way, but he’ll have to keep his own disagreeable company until the day he dies.”

— Patrick Rothfuss

114. “We love what we love. Reason does not enter into it. In many ways, unwise love is the truest love.”

— Patrick Rothfuss

115. “I have, of course, been called many other things. Most of them uncouth, although very few were unearned.”

— Patrick Rothfuss

116. “Kvothe shook his head. “No. It began at the University. I went to learn magic of the sort they talk about in stories. Magic like Taborlin the Great. I wanted to learn the name of the wind. I wanted fire and lightning. I wanted answers to ten thousand questions and access to their archives. But what I found at the University was much different than a story, and I was much dismayed.”

— Patrick Rothfuss

117. “I can sell anything to anyone. That is actually my superpower. I am really good at negotiating and persuading.”

— Patrick Rothfuss

118. “Good lord woman. If i had tits like yours I’d own half the world by now.”

— Patrick Rothfuss

119. “I only know one story. But oftentimes small pieces seem to be stories themselves.”

— Patrick Rothfuss

120. “As above, so below.”

— Patrick Rothfuss

121. “If you want to know the truth of who you are, walk until not a person knows your name. Travel is the great leveler, the great teacher, bitter as medicine, crueler than mirror-glass. A long stretch of road will teach you more about yourself than a hundred years of quiet introspection.”

— Patrick Rothfuss

122. “I wanted to tell her that she was the first beautiful thing I had seen in three years. That the sight of her yawning to the back of her hand was enought to drive the breath from me. How I sometimes lost the sense of her words in the sweet fluting of her voice. I wanted to say that if she were with me then somehow nothing could ever be wrong for me again.”

— Patrick Rothfuss

123. “Hours later the blank sheet still stared at me, and I beat my fist against the desk in fury and fustration, striking it so hard my hand bled. That is how heavy a secret can become. It can make blood flow easier than ink.”

— Patrick Rothfuss

124. “It’s hard for a newbie author to get noticed.”

— Patrick Rothfuss

125. “Nothing in the world is harder than convincing someone of an unfamiliar truth.”

— Patrick Rothfuss

126. “Travel is the great leveler, the great teacher, bitter as medicine, crueler than mirror-glass. A long stretch of road will teach you more about yourself than a hundred years of quiet introspection.”

— Patrick Rothfuss

127. “Her skin was more luminous than the moon, her eyes wider than the sky, deeper than the water, darker than the night.”

— Patrick Rothfuss

128. “I tread paths by moonlight that others fear to speak of during day.”

— Patrick Rothfuss

129. “We need time to relax and enjoy ourselves too, no matter how dark the story. The occasional humorous moment helps with that. That’s one of the things that Joss Whedon excels at in his storytelling.”

— Patrick Rothfuss

130. “I want to learn how to pick locks, swordfight, throw pottery – it’s all research. It’s like the curious person’s version of James Bond’s license to kill. I’ve got a license to learn.”

— Patrick Rothfuss

131. “First, very little is as striking as a well-worn cloak, billowing lightly about you in the breeze. And second, the best cloaks have innumerable little pockets that I have an irrational and overpowering attraction toward. As.”

— Patrick Rothfuss

132. “It’s hard for me to take myself too seriously when I’m constantly experiencing firsthand what an incredible gimp I can be.”

— Patrick Rothfuss

133. “Whenever you write a character, you want to make them themselves, you want to make them unique. You don’t want fifty characters in your book and they all pretty much act and think the same except they have different colored hair.”

— Patrick Rothfuss

134. “The point of all of this is control. First you must have control of yourself. Then you can gain control of your surroundings. Then you gain control of whoever stands against you. This is the Lethani.”

— Patrick Rothfuss

135. “How odd to watch a mortal kindle Then to dwindle day by day. Knowing their bright souls are tinder And the wind will have its way. Would I could my own fire lend. What does your flickering portend?”

— Patrick Rothfuss

136. “It was all glimmer and warm honey in the yellow light.”

— Patrick Rothfuss

137. “A moment in the mind is worth nine in the fire.”

— Patrick Rothfuss

138. “I need you to breathe for me.”

— Patrick Rothfuss

139. “We all know that when the lights are out all women are the same height!”

— Patrick Rothfuss

140. “So Taborlin fell, but he did not despair. For he knew the name of the wind, and so the wind obeyed him. He.”

— Patrick Rothfuss

141. “Felurian had a way of making requests that took some getting used to. I’d discovered that unless I was steeling myself to resist, I’d find myself automatically doing whatever it was she asked of me. It wasn’t that she spoke with authority. Her voice was too soft and edgeless to carry the weight of command. She did not demand or cajole. When she spoke, it was matter-of-fact. As if she couldn’t imagine a world in which you.”

— Patrick Rothfuss

142. “Master Elodin,” I said, breathing a little hard. “Might I ask you a quick question?” “Statistically speaking, it’s pretty likely,” he said, unlocking the door with a bright brass key. “May I ask you a question, then?” “I doubt any power known to man could stop you.”

— Patrick Rothfuss

143. “If there is one thing I will not abide it is the folly of a willful pride.”

— Patrick Rothfuss

144. “You’re my safe harbor in an endless stormy sea. You’re my shady willow on a sunny day. You’re sweet music in a distant room. You’re unexpected cake on a rainy day. You’re my bright penny on the roadside, you are worth more than the moon on the long night walk. You are sweet wine in my mouth, a song in my throat and laughter in my heart.”

— Patrick Rothfuss

145. “The seeds of the past bear fruit in the present.”

— Patrick Rothfuss

146. “I’ll see you where the roads meet.”

— Patrick Rothfuss

147. “Power is okay, and stupidity is usually harmless. Power and stupidity together are dangerous”.”

— Patrick Rothfuss

148. “Who keeps you safe from the Amyr? The singers? The Sithe? From all that would harm you in the world?” Haliax asked with calm politeness, as if genuinely curious as to what the answer might be.”

— Patrick Rothfuss

149. “Some days simply lay on you like stones. Some were fickle as cats, sliding away when you needed comfort, then coming back later when you didn’t want them, jostling at you, stealing your breath.”

— Patrick Rothfuss

150. “Asleep she was a painting of a fire. Awake she was the fire itself.”

— Patrick Rothfuss