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's the questions we can't answer that teach us the most. They teach us how to think. If you give a man an answer, all he gains is a little fact. But give him a question and he'll look for his own answers.

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She smiled like knife on a velvet, she stretched like cat on the sun.

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There are three things all wise men fear: the sea in storm, a night with no moon, and the anger of a gentle man.

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Asleep she was a painting of a fire. Awake she was the fire itself

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They were the best sort of friends. The sort everyone hopes for but no one deserves, least of all me.

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

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There can be many opinions on a thing, but there is only one truth." Vashet smiled lazily. "And if the pursuit of the truth was my goal, that would concern me." She gave a long yawn, stretching like a happy cat. "Instead I will focus on the joy in my...

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There is a great deal of difference between a penis and a heart.

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It's a shame you left without a word, you know. She was just beginning to trust you before that. Before you got angry. Before you ran off. Just like every other man in her life. Lusting after her, full of sweet words, then just walking away. Leaving ...

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It’s not over if you’re still here,” Chronicler said. “It’s not a tragedy if you’re still alive.

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If I ever met someone without a single shadow on their heart, it was surely a child too young for speaking.

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Looters become looted, while time and tide make us mercenaries all.

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Half of seeming clever is keeping your mouth shut at the right times.

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I’d heard you were dead.” "I heard you wear a red lace corset,” I said matter-of-factly. “But I don’t believe every bit of nonsense that gets rumored about.

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

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The point isn't to win the game. The point is to play a beautiful game. (paraphrased)

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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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I’d heard he had started a fistfight in one of the seedier local taverns because someone had insisted on saying the word “utilize” instead of “use.

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He hesitated, then lifted his head and sniffed. “Have you been drinking?” The question was more curious than accusatory. “No,” Bast said. The innkeeper raised an eyebrow. “I’ve been tasting,” Bast said, emphasizing the word. “Tasting ...

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over his own dark Cealdish beard. “Nothing like your marvelous facebear,

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Lies are simpler, and most of the time they make better sense.

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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