1,055 Quotes by Patrick Rothfuss

It was baffling. These creatures. The were fraught and frayed win their desire. A snake would never poison itself, but these folk made an art of it. They wrapped themselves in fears and wept at being blind. It was infuriating. It was enough to break a heart.

That’s why stories appeal to us. They give us the clarity and simplicity our real lives lack.

It’s the questions we can’t answer that teach us the most. They teach us how to think.

I took the time to fret uselessly about things I had no control over.

So Taborlin fell, but he did not despair. For he knew the name of the wind, and so the wind obeyed him. He.

Nothing in the world is harder than convincing someone of an unfamiliar truth.

I don’t think people need to know much about me to understand the book, or to enjoy it. The book stands by itself. Over the last several years, my life has been all about writing these books, but the books aren’t about my life.

You can have an interesting story about a person living an interesting life. And if it’s done well, that is just as engaging as the end of the world. A million people dying – we can’t process. One person, we can process.

So when I meet a woman, I should simply say, ‘You are beautiful?’” Tempi shook his head. “No. You would say simply ‘beautiful,’ and let the woman decide the rest of what you mean.