1,055 Quotes by Patrick Rothfuss

Contrary opinions are one thing, contrary facts are another.

Sharing silence between us. Sometimes is all you can share.

The 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.

Oh yes. Fulcrum had broken, but that wasn't wrong. Eggs break. Horses break. Waves break. Of course he broke. How else could someone so all certain-centered let his perfect answers out into the world? Some things were jut too true to stay.

Oh yes. It was well worth it, doing things the proper way.

She 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.

All I want is someone who likes me.""All I want is a clear sign," I said."All I want is a magical horse that fits in my pocket," Wil said. "And a ring of red amber that gives me power over demons. And an endless supply of cake.

It exhasperated her, but she knew better than to force the world to her desire.

Patience and propriety. It was the only graceful thing to do.