Quotes by Patrick Rothfuss

About Patrick Rothfuss:

Patrick James Rothfuss is an American writer of epic fantasy and college lecturer. He is best known for his projected three-volume series The Kingkiller Chronicle.
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It exhasperated her, but she knew better than to force the world to her desire.

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There is a difference between the truth and what we wish were true.

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She knew the true shape of the world. All else was shadow and the sound of distant drums.

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But no. There is a difference between the truth and what we wish were true.

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There is something deeply satisfying in shaping something with your hands. Proper artificing is like a song made solid. It is an act of creation.

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Dawn was coming. The Waystone Inn lay in silence, and it was a silence of three parts.

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There's looking and there's looking. When some men look at you it's a greasy thing. It makes you want to have a bath. With other men it's nice. It helps you know you're beautiful.

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She took another step. The simple motion of her moving leg was like a dance, the unexaggerated shifting of her hip entrancing as a fire. The arch of her bare foot said more of sex than anything I'd seen in my young life.

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Books are a poor substitute for female companionship, but they are easier to find.

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No man is brave that has never walked a hundred miles. 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 stretc...

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What is word for good together living? Nobody shits in the well?" I laughed. "Civilization?" He nodded, splaying his fingers: amusement. "Yes," he said. "Speaking with hands is civilization." "But smiling is natural," I protested. "Everyone smiles." ...

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Why wasn't I already kissing this woman? Why wasn't I naked, eating violets, and playing music underneath the open sky? Looking around the room again, everything seemed terribly ridiculous. These people sitting on their benches wearing layers on laye...

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I slept and I woke. She gave me a ring made from a leaf, a cluster of golden berries, a flower that opened and closed at the stroking of a finger.... And once, when I startled awake with my face wet and my chest aching, she reached out to lay her han...

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But laugh?" He pressed the flat of his hand against my stomach. "Here lives laugh." He ran his finger straight up to my mouth and spread his fingers. "Push back laugh is not good. Not healthy." "Also cry?" I asked. I traced an imaginary tear down my ...

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I've always liked the moonless night best. It's easier to say things in the dark. It's easier to be yourself.

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

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My bad luck got tangled up with my bad decisions, and I'm paying for it.

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I was one of those. I meddled with dark powers. I summoned demons. I ate the entire little cheese, including the rind.

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She wasn't dressed like a student. She wore an elaborate burgundy dress with long skirts, a tight waist, and matching burgundy gloves that rose all the way to her elbows. Moving deliberately, she managed to get down off the stool without tangling her...

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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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There are so many men, all endlessly attempting to sweep me off my feet. And there is one of you, trying just the opposite. Making sure my feet are firm beneath me, lest I fall.

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Author Bio

  • NamePatrick Rothfuss
  • DescriptionAmerican fantasy writer
  • BornJune 6, 1973
  • CountryUnited States Of America
  • ProfessionNovelist; Writer
  • WorksThe Name Of The Wind; The Wise Man's Fear