Top 500 Patrick Rothfuss Quotes (2024 Update)
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201. “It was shivery and scant. Scared. Skint. But just around the edges it was still scintillant.”

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

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203. “I should have been bolder and kissed her at the end. I should have been more cautious. I had talked too much. I had said too little.”

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204. “No. You should take pleasure in following the Lethani. If you fight well, you should take pride in doing a thing well. For the fighting itself you should feel only duty and sorrow. Only barbarians and madmen take pleasure in combat. Whoever loves the fight itself has left the Lethani behind.”

— Patrick Rothfuss

205. “Excellence is excellence’s only companion.”

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206. “I won the only duel I ever lost.”

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207. “To be both rich and handsome was bad enough. But to have a voice like honey over warm bread on top of that was simply inexcusable.”

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208. “The air was heavy with the smell of leather and dust, of old parchment and binding glue. It smelled of secrets.”

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209. “If we were living in a better age they’d build a temple around a woman like that.”

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210. “It’s one thing to not want an evil-sorcerer type villain in your story, but it’s another thing to avoid having any sort of antagonist at all. A story without an antagonist gets weird pretty quick.”

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211. “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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212. “I am telling you three times.”

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213. “Denna is a wild thing,” I explained. “Like a hind or a summer storm. If a storm blows down your house, or breaks a tree, you don’t say the storm was mean. It was cruel. It acted according to its nature and something unfortunately was hurt. The same is true of Denna.”

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214. “To deem us simply enemies is to lose the true flavor of our relationship. It was more like the two of us entered into a business partnership in order to more efficiently pursue our mutual interest of hating each other.”

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215. “There’s no good story that doesn’t touch the truth.”

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216. “This is why we have music, after all. Words cannot always do the work we need them to. Music is there for when words fail us. Finally.”

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217. “Como ya he dicho, existe una gran diferencia entre ser valiente y no tener miedo.”

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218. “If your name is getting too heavy, you should have Kvothe give you a new one.”

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219. “The second was some rather bad poetry, but it was short, and I forced my way through by gritting my teeth and occasionally closing one eye so as not to damage the entirety of my brain.”

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220. “I’m not officially a collector, but I have a strange attraction and a weakness for keys and coins. Old keys and interesting coins.”

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221. “A ghost wants revenge, a demon wants your soul, a shamble-man is hungry and cold. It makes them less terrible. Things we understand we can try to control. But Chandrian come like lightning from a clear blue sky. Just destruction. No rhyme or reason to it.”

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222. “Old Cob tucked away his bowl of stew with the predatory efficency of a lifetime bachelor.”

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223. “Then he turned it the third time, and the boy’s ass fell off.”

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224. “It’s my opinion that if you’re trying to tell a realistic story that centers around realistic characters, you can’t help but touch on important issues. Those issues are what make us human.”

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225. “She was regal as a queen. Eager as a child. Proud as a cat. And she was like none of those things. Nothing like them. Not in the least little bit.”

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

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227. “I don’t feel beholden to follow the real world at all. The important thing is to know WHY things turned out the way they did. You need to understand the reasons for events, or at least be able to make reasonable guesses about them.”

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228. “Speculative fiction is where my heart lies. It’s what I read growing up, and it’s what I read as an adult.”

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229. “Never quenched. Though I am doused in you, I burn.”

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230. “I have a blog where I keep in touch with my fans. I write about things that are important to me. Sometimes on there I’ll just tell a little story about the things that happen in my everyday life. People seem to enjoy them well enough.”

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231. “The way I cook it’s more like mad science. There’s a lot of inspiration and dramatic failure with the occasional gorgeous success.”

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232. “Isn’t that the way of the world? We want the sweet things, but we need the unpleasant ones.”

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233. “Abenthy gave me an appraising look. I’d been waiting for it. It was the look that said, “You don’t sound as young as you look.” I hoped he’d come to grips with it fairly soon. It gets tiresome being spoken to as if you are a child, even if you happen to be one.”

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234. “These were bad memories, but over the years I had brought them out and handled them so often there was hardly a sharp edge left to them.”

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235. “You may have heard of me.”

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236. “Did you know I never paid taxes before I came here? The Edema don’t own property, as a rule.” He gestured at the inn. “I never understood how galling it was. Some smug bastard with a ledger comes into town, makes you pay for the privilege of owning something.”

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237. “It was the sort of anger that comes to a slow boil inside the hearts of good men who want justice, and finding it out oftheir grasp, decide vengeance is the next best thing.”

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238. “But only a fool claims there is no such thing as love. When you see two young ones taring at each other with dewy eyes, there it is. So thick you can spread it on your brread and eat it. When you see a mother with her child, you see love. When you feel it roil in your belly, you know what it is. Even if you cannot give voice to it in words.”

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239. “I love her more than just a little. I think it’s because we’re both somewhat broken, in our own odd ways. More importantly, we’re both aware of it.”

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240. “Never fool yourself into perceiving things that don’t exist. It.”

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241. “Oh no. He was emberant. Incarnadine. He was bright with better bright beneath, like copper-gilded gold.”

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242. “He called the wind and the wind came. It was magic. Real magic. The sort of magic I’d heard about in stories of Taborlin the Great. The sort of magic I hadn’t believed in since I was six. Now I didn’t know what to believe. So I invited him into our troupe, hoping to find answers to my questions. Though I didn’t know it at the time, I was looking for the name of the wind.”

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243. “Stories don’t need to be new to bring you joy. Some stories are like familiar friends. Some are dependable as bread.”

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244. “She raised her own glass, filled with a deep red wine. “To Ambrose Jakis,” she said with sudden fierceness. “May he fall into a well and die.”

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245. “And if Hollywood has taught us anything, it’s that cool props and special effects are not enough. Story comes first. Everything depends on story.”

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246. “Is there a connection between language and magic? Yes. Ten times yes. So much yes that it almost doesn’t bear talking about. It’s as pointless that arguing that the sun is hot.”

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247. “There is something powerfully beguiling about the excited eyes of a young woman. They can pull all manner of nonsense out of a foolish young man, and I was no exception to this rule.”

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248. “Bast said. “The truth is deeper than that. It’s... ” Bast floundered for a moment. “It’s like everyone tells a story about themselves inside their own head. Always. All the time. That story makes you what you are. We build ourselves out of that story.”

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249. “If one student in ten had half his fire I’d teach with a whip and chair instead of chalk and slate.”

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250. “Unfortunately, a lot of fantasy is chock full of sexism and racism. A lot of authors don’t even realize they’re doing it, and a lot of readers don’t know they’re reading it. That’s what makes it so scary in some cases.”

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