01c. 1973 ADYou are unmannerly,sharp-tounged, and show no respect for your betters,which is practically everyone given your lowly ravel birth.""I 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"-KvothePatrick Rothfuss / quote ↗
02c. 1973 ADBut 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 / quote ↗
03c. 1973 ADLosing Foxen was bad. It would leave her blind and lonely in the dark. Being trapped beneath the pipes and choking out her life was awful too. But neither of those things were wrong.Patrick Rothfuss / quote ↗
04c. 1973 ADWhen someone tells you a piece of their life, they’re giving you a gift, not granting you your due.Patrick Rothfuss / quote ↗
05c. 1973 ADWhen we are children we seldom think of the future. This innocence leaves us free to enjoy ourselves as few adults can. The day we fret about the future is the day we leave our childhood behind.Patrick Rothfuss / quote ↗
06c. 1973 ADThe day we fret about the future is the day we leave our chilhood behind.Patrick Rothfuss / quote ↗
08c. 1973 ADShe was not vain enough to work her will against the world. But she could use the things the world had given her.Patrick Rothfuss / quote ↗
09c. 1973 ADBut 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. Even though she knew it was a wicked thing to do.Patrick Rothfuss / quote ↗
10c. 1973 ADShe 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 / quote ↗
12c. 1973 ADKvothe continued, smiling himself “I see you laugh. Very well, for simplicity’s sake, let us assume I am the center of creation. In doing this, let us pass over innumerable boring stories: the rise and fall of empires, sagas of heroism, ballads of tragic love. Let us hurry forward to the only tale of any real importance.” His smile broadened. “Mine.Patrick Rothfuss / quote ↗
13c. 1973 ADA tree doesn't make a thunderstorm, but any fool knows where lighting´s going to strike".Patrick Rothfuss / quote ↗
14c. 1973 ADThere is something deeply satisfying in shaping something with your hands. Proper artificing is like a song made solid. It is an act of creation.Patrick Rothfuss / quote ↗
15c. 1973 ADIf you are eager to find the reason I became the Kvothe they tell stories about, you could look there, I suppose."Chronicler's forehead wrinkled. "What do you mean, exactly?"Kvothe paused for a long moment, looking down at his hands. "Do you know how many times I've been beaten over the course of my life?"Chronicler shook his head.Looking up, Kvothe grinned and tossed his shoulders in a nonchalant shrug. "Neither do I. You'd think that sort of thing would stick in a person's mind. You'd think I would remember how many bones I've had broken. You'd think I'd remember the stitches and bandages." He shook his head. "I don't. I remember that young boy sobbing in the dark. Clear as a bell after all these years."Chronicler frowned. "You said yourself that there was nothing you could have done.""I could have," Kvothe said seriously, "and I didn't. I made my choice and I regret it to this day. Bones mend. Regret stays with you forever.Patrick Rothfuss / quote ↗
16c. 1973 ADI was in my early twenties and I was, to be quite honest, a bit of a punk. A swaggering entitled straight white guy who hadn't but a lot of thought into what it might be like to be anything other than a straight white guy. Because when you're a straight white guy, you don't *have* to think about that....Patrick Rothfuss / quote ↗
17c. 1973 ADI do this so you cannot help but hear. a wise man views a moonless night with fear.Patrick Rothfuss / quote ↗
18c. 1973 ADShe washed he hands,then looked at my side. "you haven't even had it stitched?" She said incredulously."I've been rather busy," I said. "With the running like hell and hiding all night.Patrick Rothfuss / quote ↗
19c. 1973 ADIn a later chapter, less argued over and less well-known, Teccam explains that there are two types of secrets. There are secrets of the mouth and secrets of the heart. Most secrets are secrets of the mouth. Gossip shared and small scandals whispered. These secrets long to be let loose upon the world. A secret of the mouth is like a stone in your boot. At first you’re barely aware of it. Then it grows irritating, then intolerable. Secrets of the mouth grow larger the longer you keep them, swelling until they press against your lips. They fight to be let free. Secrets of the heart are different. They are private and painful, and we want nothing more than to hide them from the world. They do not swell and press against the mouth. They live in the heart, and the longer they are kept, the heavier they become.Patrick Rothfuss / quote ↗
20c. 1973 ADIt's quite enough to have a secret. Anything more would be greedy.Patrick Rothfuss / quote ↗
21c. 1973 ADThere is a difference between the truth and what we wish were true.Patrick Rothfuss / quote ↗
23c. 1973 ADDeath was like an unpleasant neighbor. You didn’t talk about him for fear he might hear you and decide to pay a visit.Patrick Rothfuss / quote ↗
24c. 1973 ADAll stories are true,” Skarpi said. “But this one really happened, if that’s what you mean.” He took another slow drink, then smiled again, his bright eyes dancing. “More or less. You have to be a bit of a liar to tell a story the right way. Too much truth confuses the facts. Too much honesty makes you sound insincere.Patrick Rothfuss / quote ↗
