1,055 Quotes by Patrick Rothfuss

I don't speak fluent bumpkin...

So Stapes conducted a dinner for just the two of us, then informed me of a dozen small but important mistakes I had made. Setting down a dirty utensil was considered crude, for example. That meant it was perfectly acceptable to lick one's knife clean. In fact, if you didn't want to dirty your napkin it was the only seemly thing to do.

Thieves, Heretics, and Whores

My shrug was so nonchalant it would make a cat jealous

My most popular blogs end up being the ones where I talk about being a dad.

You can't write good characters if you can't imagine what it's like being in another person's skin. And if you can imagine that, you naturally want other people's lives to be better. You want to make that happen.

A long stretch of road will teach you more about yourself than a hundred years of quiet introspection

But to love something despite. To know the flaws and love them too. This is rare and pure and perfect.

If I'd been whoring before class and waved a corset at him, no one would have thought twice about it!