01c. 1973 ADI 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.Patrick Rothfuss / quote ↗
02c. 1973 ADIf not for him, I would never have become the man I am today. I ask that you not hold it against him. He meant wellPatrick Rothfuss / quote ↗
03c. 1973 ADDawn was coming. The Waystone Inn lay in silence, and it was a silence of three parts.Patrick Rothfuss / quote ↗
04c. 1973 ADIf she was beautiful at rest she was doubly so awake. Asleep she was a painting of a fire. Awake she was the fire itself.Patrick Rothfuss / quote ↗
05c. 1973 ADSo much was so easy. Glamour was second nature. It was just making folk see what they wanted to see. Fooling folk was as simple as singing. Tricking folk and telling lies, it was like breathing.But this? Convincing someone of the truth that they were too twisted to see? How could you even begin?Patrick Rothfuss / quote ↗
07c. 1973 ADIt 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.Patrick Rothfuss / quote ↗
09c. 1973 ADThe Waystone was his, just as the third silence was his. This was appropriate, as it was the greatest silence of the three, wrapping the others inside itself. 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.Patrick Rothfuss / quote ↗
10c. 1973 ADIt'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.Patrick Rothfuss / quote ↗
11c. 1973 ADI would never normally approach a woman in this way, but I couldn't help but notice that you have the eyes of a lady I was once desperately in love with. ""What a shame to love only once," she said, showing her white teeth in a wicked smile. "I've heard some men can manage twice or even more."I ignored her gibe. "I am only a fool once. Never will I love again.Patrick Rothfuss / quote ↗
12c. 1973 ADShe 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.Patrick Rothfuss / quote ↗
13c. 1973 ADThe point isn't to win the game. The point is to play a beautiful game. (paraphrased)Patrick Rothfuss / quote ↗
14c. 1973 ADLooters become looted, while time and tide make us mercenaries all.Patrick Rothfuss / quote ↗
15c. 1973 ADIf I ever met someone without a single shadow on their heart, it was surely a child too young for speaking.Patrick Rothfuss / quote ↗
16c. 1973 ADAre you hurt?""Absolutely," I said. "Especially in my everywhere.Patrick Rothfuss / quote ↗
17c. 1973 ADI only know one story. But oftentimes small pieces seem to be stories themselves.Patrick Rothfuss / quote ↗
18c. 1973 ADThink of all the stories you've heard, Bast. You have a young boy, the hero. His parents are killed he sets out for vengeance. What next?"Bast hesitated, his expression puzzled. Chronicler answered the question instead. "He finds help. A clever talking squirrel. An old drunken swordsman. A mad hermit in the woods. That sort of thing."Kvothe nodded. "Exactly! He finds the mad hermit in the woods, proves himself worthy, and learns the names of all things, just like Taborlin the Great. Then with these powerful magics at his beck and call, what does he do?"Chronicler shrugged. "He finds the villains and kills them." "Of course," Kvothe said grandly. "Clean, quick, and easy as lying. We know how it ends practically before it starts. That's why stories appeal to us. They give us the clarity and simplicity our real lives lack.Patrick Rothfuss / quote ↗
19c. 1973 ADThis is how deeply rooted stories are, folks. We crave them before we can walk, and we start telling them before we can talk.Patrick Rothfuss / quote ↗
20c. 1973 ADPride is always a better lever against the nobility than reason.Patrick Rothfuss / quote ↗
21c. 1973 ADMy father referred to it as "the finest song ever written for fifteen fingers." He made me play it when I was getting too full of myself and felt I needed humbling. Suffice to say I practice it with fair regularity, sometimes more than once a day.Patrick Rothfuss / quote ↗
22c. 1973 ADPride and folly, they go together like two tightly grasping hands.Patrick Rothfuss / quote ↗
23c. 1973 ADI am Edema Ruh to my bones. That means my blood is red. 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.Patrick Rothfuss / quote ↗
