1,055 Quotes by Patrick Rothfuss

Its like he knows he's better than you, but doesn't look down on you for it because he knows it's not your fault.

You’re right in a way,” he said. “But only an idiot sits in a burning house and thinks everything is fine because fruit is still sweet.

You remind me of a willow.” She said easily. “Strong, deep-rooted, and hidden. You move easily when the storm comes, but never farther than you wish.

Don’t put beets in the soup, Reshi. They’re foul.

Generally my favorite remarks always come from my readers. I’ve had people say my books made them laugh, or cry, or that it frightened them late at night.

Remember this, son, if you forget everything else. A poet is a musician who can’t sing. Words have to find a man’s mind before they can touch his heart, and some men’s minds are woeful small targets. Music touches their hearts directly no matter how small or stubborn the mind of the man who listens.

It was, I thought idly, the most polite punch I’d ever seen. It was the careful blow of a skilled carpenter pounding a nail: hard enough to drive it fully home, but not so hard as to bruise the wood around it.

There was a door, but it was terribly bashful, so Auri politely pretended not to see it.

We love what we love. Reason does not enter into it. In many ways, unwise love is the truest love.