Top 500 Patrick Rothfuss Quotes (2024 Update)
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401. “Most games follow a real railroad plot, no matter what you want, you’re following their storyline to its unavoidable conclusion. I’d like to write a game where your character can follow any number of possible story arcs and sub-plots.”

— Patrick Rothfuss

402. “Some days simply lay on you like stones.”

— Patrick Rothfuss

403. “My head felt clear and light, like a leaf floating on the wind.”

— Patrick Rothfuss

404. “Three circles. Perfect for asking. It was better to be gentle and polite. It was the worst sort of selfishness to force yourself upon the world.”

— Patrick Rothfuss

405. “Humor is hard, hard, hard. And if you fail with humor, you don’t fail halfway. You drop the ball humor-wise and everyone notices.”

— Patrick Rothfuss

406. “When you read a fantasy novel part of the fun is getting to explore a new world. Everyone knows that. But I believe the same is true about characters. You can explore interesting people in the same way that you explore a town or a culture.”

— Patrick Rothfuss

407. “I grew thinner and more ragged. I slept in rain or sun, on soft grass, moist earth, or sharp stones with an intensity of indifference that only grief can promote.”

— Patrick Rothfuss

408. “Patience and propriety. It was the only graceful thing to do.”

— Patrick Rothfuss

409. “Then, since all my other options seemed to be exhausted, I decided it would be best if I fell off the roof.”

— Patrick Rothfuss

410. “Bast looked at him incredulously.“The whole world is burning down,“he said.“Open your eyes.”

— Patrick Rothfuss

411. “Nothing was nothing else. Nothing was anything it shouldn’t be.”

— Patrick Rothfuss

412. “She laughed so sweet and loud and long it sounded like a bell, a harp, a song.”

— Patrick Rothfuss

413. “You’d be surprised at the sorts of things hidden away in children’s songs.”

— Patrick Rothfuss

414. “The Flame” is obvious if you’ve ever seen me. I have red hair, bright. If I had been born a couple hundred years ago I would probably have been burned as a demon. I keep it short but it’s unruly. When left to its own devices, it sticks up and makes me look as if I have been set afire.”

— Patrick Rothfuss

415. “The gesture was so tight with rage she feared she’d snap and crack the world in two.”

— Patrick Rothfuss

416. “What I personally knew about courting women could comfortably fit into a thimble without taking it off your finger first.”

— Patrick Rothfuss

417. “Cruelty never helped the turning of the world.”

— Patrick Rothfuss

418. “Etiquette is a set of rules people use so they can be rude to each other in public.”

— Patrick Rothfuss

419. “Do you know what it’s like to run spellcheck for six hours? It’s like a party in purgatory. A party in purgatory where all they have to drink is sugar-free Kool-aid, and the only game to play is Monopoly, and none of your friends show up.”

— Patrick Rothfuss

420. “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

421. “It might not be true, but that doesn’t mean it’s nonsense.”

— Patrick Rothfuss

422. “He suggested several unpleasant, unsanitary things I could do to myself at my earliest convenience.”

— Patrick Rothfuss

423. “You need to realize that most writing rules aren’t laws, they’re rules of thumb.”

— Patrick Rothfuss

424. “The night is perfect in a wild way, almost terrifyingly beautiful.”

— Patrick Rothfuss

425. “In closing, she advised me to drink more water, get some sleep, and suggested that in the future I refrain from strenuous physical activity in a hot room the day after falling off a roof.”

— Patrick Rothfuss

426. “She pulled the cork and sniffed it. “What’s in it?” “Sunlight,” I said. “And a smile, and a question.”

— Patrick Rothfuss

427. “They had spilled their secrets, and Auri knew full well how heavy hard-held secrets could become.”

— Patrick Rothfuss

428. “A troublesome question? Those tend to be the only whorthwhile kind.”

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429. “But for half a minute she wished it was a different sort of day, even though she knew that nothing good could come from wanting at the world.”

— Patrick Rothfuss

430. “After a moment he reached out and brushed the unruly red hair back from his face, like a mother would with a sleeping child. Then he began to sing softly, the tune lilting and strange, almost a lullaby:.”

— Patrick Rothfuss

431. “I hate nothing so much as doing a thing badly.”

— Patrick Rothfuss

432. “My fingers darted, then danced, then flew. I played hard as a hailstorm, like a hammer beating brass. I played soft as sun on autumn wheat, gentle as a single stirring leaf.”

— Patrick Rothfuss

433. “After a certain point is reached the numbers cease to matter, and all that remains is the faceless mass of a crowd.”

— Patrick Rothfuss

434. “He barely even owned his own name, and even that had been worn thin and threadbare through the years.”

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435. “I didn’t really have any idea how I would find her. Some foolish, romantic part of me thought I would know her when I saw her. If she were half as radiant as her voice, she would shine like a candle in a dark room. But as I thought these things, the wiser part of me was whispering in my other ear. Do not hope, it said. Do not dare hold hope that any woman could burn as brightly as the voice that sang the part of Aloine.”

— Patrick Rothfuss

436. “I imagine I could do anything,” I said easily. “If you would ask it of me.”

— Patrick Rothfuss

437. “Always think about what you’re singing, honey.”

— Patrick Rothfuss

438. “A well-spoken sentence in Aturan is a straight line pointing. A well-spoken sentence in Adem is like a spiderweb, each strand with a meaning of its own, a piece of something greater, more complex.”

— Patrick Rothfuss

439. “She didn’t fall, but oh, her heart went icy in her chest. She sat down hard upon the steps. Too numb to walk. Her heart was cold and white as chalk.”

— Patrick Rothfuss

440. “She listened, then opened up the door and looked again. Nothing. But simply seeing did not help. She knew that seeming wasn’t hardly half of things.”

— Patrick Rothfuss

441. “When left to its own devices it tends to make me look as if I’ve been set afire.”

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442. “There are some silences that even words cannot drive away.”

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443. “The Chancellor looked down at the empty table for a minute. Then he shrugged, looked up, and gave a surprisingly jaunty smile. “All in favor of admitting first-term Kvothe’s reckless use of sympathy as proof of mastery of basic principles of sympathy vote by show of hands.”

— Patrick Rothfuss

444. “Being able to think about two disparate things at once, aside from being wonderfully efficient, was roughly akin to being able to sing harmony with yourself.”

— Patrick Rothfuss

445. “Nobody cooks using just one ingredient. Why would you write using just one flavor of story?”

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446. “She shelled the nuts and toasted them, jiggling them about in the pan. She sprinkled them with salt and ate them each by each. Some were bitter. Some were sweet. Some were hardly anything. That was just the way of things.”

— Patrick Rothfuss

447. “That is also an idiom.” Wilem grumbled. “Your language is thick with nonsense. I wonder how any of you understand each other. How is everything going? Going where?” He shook his head.”

— Patrick Rothfuss

448. “Soon. She knew. Soon he would come visiting. Incarnadine and sweet and sad and broken. Just like her.”

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449. “The key needed urgent tending. It was for certain the most restless of the lot. This wasn’t even a slim sliver of surprise. Keys were hardly known for their complacency, and this one was near howling for a lock. Auri picked it up and turned it in her hands. A door key. It wasn’t shy about the fact at all.”

— Patrick Rothfuss

450. “What what. Hush hush.”

— Patrick Rothfuss