1,055 Quotes by Patrick Rothfuss

When necessity demands it, I'm an excellent liar. Not the noblest of skills, but useful. It ties closely to acting and storytelling, and I learned all three from my father, who was a master craftsman.

Truth is a troublesome motherfucker unless it's handled properly

Call a jack a jack. Call a spade a spade. But always call a whore a lady.

Folk like to pretend they know everything about the world. Rich folk especially. Maps are great for that. [...] You don't have blanks on your map, so the folks who draw them shade in a piece and write, 'The Eld.' You might as well burn a hole right through the map for what good that does.

If you sell me a horse that throws a shoe, or starts to limp, or spooks at shadows, I will miss a valuable opportunity. A quite unrecoverable opportunity. If that happens, I will not come back and demand arefund. I will not petition the constable. I will walk back to Imre this very night and set fire to your house.Then, when you run out the front door in your nightshirt and stockle-cap, I will kill you, cook you, andeat you. Right there on your lawn while all your neighbors watch.

Wilem snorted."That doesn't sound suspicious at all," he said. "And you wonder why people talk about you.""I don't wonder why they talk," I said "I wonder what they say.

I even started a few rumors that were pure nonsense, lies so outrageous that people would repeat them despite the fact that they were obviously untrue. I had demon blood in me. I could see in the dark. I only slept an hour each night.When the moon was full I would talk in my sleep, speaking a strange language no one could understand.

That’s one of the best things about horror movies – they’re not real life. They’re like emotional cardio. They give us the chance to be terrified in a consequence-free environment.That’s the joy of all fiction, really: you get the benefit of experiencing something without the burden of having to actually experience it.

Gentle. Which people see as weak.