1,055 Quotes by Patrick Rothfuss

Half a King is my favorite book by Joe Abercrombie so far, and that’s saying something.

We need time to relax and enjoy ourselves too, no matter how dark the story. The occasional humorous moment helps with that. That’s one of the things that Joss Whedon excels at in his storytelling.

So strange and rare. So full of faraway.

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.

Power is okay, and stupidity is usually harmless. Power and stupidity together are dangerous”.

Second is the door of forgetting. Some wounds are too deep to heal, or too deep to heal quickly. In addition, many memories are simply painful, and there is no healing to be done. The saying “time heals all wounds” is false. Time heals most wounds. The rest are hidden behind this door.

The point of all of this is control. First you must have control of yourself. Then you can gain control of your surroundings. Then you gain control of whoever stands against you. This is the Lethani.

I want to learn how to pick locks, swordfight, throw pottery – it’s all research. It’s like the curious person’s version of James Bond’s license to kill. I’ve got a license to learn.

Everything said, you couldn’t hope for a nicer day to have a half dozen ex-soldiers with hunting bows relieve you of everything you owned.