1,055 Quotes by Patrick Rothfuss

It gets tiresome being spoken to as if you are a child, even if you happen to be one.

If you can find someone like that, someone who you can hold and close your eyes to the world with, then you're lucky.

I spoke it soft, but close enough to brush against her lips. I spoke it quiet, but near enough so that the sound of it went twining through her hair. I spoke it hard and firm and dark and sweet.

And if Hollywood has taught us anything, it's that cool props and special effects are not enough. Story comes first. Everything depends on story.

It wasn't even a good note. 'If you are reading this I am probably dead.' What sort of a note is that?

Words have to find a man's mind before they can touch his heart, and some men's minds are woefully small targets.

I'm not a stereotypical professor type. I don't smoke a pipe and wear a tweedy jacket. I'm more like a student who stayed at the university for so long that they gave him a job to keep him out of trouble.

If you're an actor, you know people are going to recognize you in a restaurant. If you're a rock star, you know people are going to stop you on the street and ask you for your autograph. But as an author? That's not something I was ready for.

...hear rumors and go digging for the painful truth beneath the lovely lies. You believe you have a right to these things, but you don't. When someone tells you a piece of their life, they're giving you a gift, not granting you your due.