Top 500 Patrick Rothfuss Quotes (2024 Update)
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151. “IT WAS ONE OF those perfect autumn days so common in stories and so rare in the real world. The weather was warm and dry, ideal for ripening a field of wheat or corn. On both sides of the road the trees were changing color. Tall poplars had gone a buttery yellow while the shrubby sumac encroaching on the road was tinged a violent red. Only the old oaks seemed reluctant to give up the summer, and their leaves remained an even mingling of gold and green.”

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152. “If you want to know the truth of who you are, walk until not a person knows your name.”

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153. “I would have more luck trying to steal the moon. At least I knew where to look for the moon at night.”

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154. “Music sounds different to the one who plays it. It is the musician’s curse.”

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155. “Half a King is my favorite book by Joe Abercrombie so far, and that’s saying something.”

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156. “Chronicler found himself thinking of a story he had heard. One of the many. The story told of how Kvothe had gone looking for his heart’s desire. He had to trick a demon to get it. But once it rested in his hand, he was forced to fight an angel to keep it.”

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157. “In many ways, unwise love is the truest love. Anyone can love a thing because. That’s as easy as putting a penny in your pocket. But to love something despite. To know the flaws and love them too. That is rare and pure and perfect.”

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158. “That’s the problem,” I said. “He’s nice. He’s gentle, which people see as weak. And he’s happy, which people see as stupid.”

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159. “It was deep and wide as autumn’s ending. It was heavy as a great river-smooth stone. It was the patient, cut-flower sound of a man who is waiting to die.”

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160. “A story is like a nut. A fool will swallow it whole and choke. A fool will throw it away, think it of little worth. But a wise woman finds a way to crack the shell and eat the meant inside.”

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161. “She was a wicked thing sometimes. All full of want. As if the shape of the world depended on her mood. As if she were important.”

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162. “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.”

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163. “Death was like an unpleasant neighbor. You didn’t talk about him for fear he might hear you and decide to pay a visit.”

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164. “Things are more easily seen from edges. Danger rouses the sleeping mind. It makes some things clear.”

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165. “I can tell you of the waves and water, but you don’t begin to get an inkling of its size until you stand on the shore. You don’t really understand the ocean until you are in the midst of it, nothing but ocean on all sides, stretching away endlessly. Only then do you realize how small you are, how powerless.”

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166. “Well, you know what they say: Finding the right analogy is as hard as.”

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167. “To be so lovely and so lost. To be all answerful with all that knowing trapped inside. To be beautiful and broken.”

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168. “I’ve never really understood the desire people have to quantify a baby. “He’s X big and Y long,” As if the baby is a fish you’re not sure you’re going to keep. Or some prize potato you’re hoping will win a prize at the county fair.”

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169. “Stories only happen to people who can tell them.”

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170. “I made my choice and I regret it to this day. Bones mend. Regret stays with you forever.”

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171. “I went looking for a legend and found a lizard. A fascinating lizard, but a lizard just the same.”

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172. “Words are pale shadows of forgotten names. As names have power, words have power. Words can light fires in the minds of men. Words can wring tears from the hardest hearts. There are seven words that will make a person love you. There are ten words that will break a strong man’s will. But a word is nothing but a painting of a fire. A name is the fire itself.”

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173. “No hard feelings about that time in the Crucible when you mixed my salts and I was nearly blind for a day. No. No, really, drink up!”

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174. “Close your mouth, E’lir Kvothe, or I will feel obliged to put some vile tonic in it.”

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175. “Just because I tread heavily on propriety’s toes doesn’t mean I can’t play the game when it’s of use to me.”

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176. “Congratulations, he said. “That was the stupidest thing I’ve ever seen.” His expression was a mix of awe and disbelief. “Ever.”

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177. “Nothing but the truth could break me. What is harder than the truth?”

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178. “Its like he knows he’s better than you, but doesn’t look down on you for it because he knows it’s not your fault.”

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179. “There is a great difference between a gift given freely, and one that’s meant to tie you to a man.”

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180. “There are few things as nauseating as pure obedience.”

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181. “For all that she lacked your fire.”

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182. “Reading is professionally important for me to keep tuned in to what’s being written in my genre, let’s not lie. But that’s not the reason I read. I read for my own emotional and mental health. If I stopped reading, I’d probably just die.”

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183. “It means I breathe the free air and walk where my feet take me. I do not cringe and fawn like a dog at a man’s title. That looks like pride to people who have spent their lives cultivating supple spines.” Sleat gave a lazy.”

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184. “He laid a hand on my shoulder. “Using words to talk of words is like using a pencil to draw a picture of itself, on itself. Impossible. Confusing. Frustrating.” He lifted his hands high above his head as if stretching for the sky. “But there are other ways to understanding!” he shouted, laughing like a child. He threw both arms to the cloudless arch of sky above us, still laughing. “Look!” he shouted tilting his head back. “Blue! Blue! Blue!”

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185. “Seven things has Lady Lackless Keeps them underneath her black dress One a ring that’s not for wearing One a sharp word, not for swearing Right beside her husband’s candle There’s a door without a handle In a box, no lid or locks Lackless keeps her husband’s rocks There’s a secret she’s been keeping She’s been dreaming and not sleeping On a road, that’s not for traveling Lackless likes her riddle raveling.”

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186. “So yes. It had flaws, but what does that matter when it comes to matters of the heart? We love what we love. Reason does not enter into it. In many ways, unwise love is the truest love. Anyone can love a thing because. That’s as easy as putting a penny in your pocket. But to love something despite. To know the flaws and love them too. That is rare and pure and perfect.”

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187. “Sit your ass down and write.”

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188. “She caught a piece of my smile and shone it back at me.”

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189. “Cease these sweet words,” I protested. “You seek to bend me to your will, but it will not work. Your flattery is naught to me but wind!”

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190. “She taught me I should never do anything in private I did not want talked about in public, and cautioned me not to talk in my sleep.”

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191. “And remember: speak least if you would be most often heard.”

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192. “What what,” Trapis said as he hurried over to tend to her, his bare feet slapping on the floor. “What what. Hush hush.”

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193. “Nothing makes a man feel older than a young woman.”

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194. “When someone tells you a piece of their life, they’re giving you a gift, not granting you your due.”

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195. “I sow salt because the choice is between weeds and nothing. – Lanre.”

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196. “One of the masters at the University once told me that there were seven words that would make a woman love you.” I made a deliberately casual shrug. “I was just wondering what they were.” “Is that why you talk so much? Hoping to come on them by accident?” I.”

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197. “All stories are true.”

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198. “A clever, thoughtless person is one of the most terrifying things there is.”

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199. “There is a sort of camaraderie that rarely exists except between men who have fought the same enemies and know the same women.”

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200. “No matter where she stood, she was in the center of the room.”

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