1,055 Quotes by Patrick Rothfuss

Nothing but the truth could break me. What is harder than the truth?

If I could sum it up in 50 words, I wouldn’t have needed to write a whole novel about it.

He was giving me enough rope to hang myself with. Apparently he didn’t realize that once a noose is tied it will fit one neck as easily as another.

I’m about to die of terminal curiosity, you know.

Como ya he dicho, existe una gran diferencia entre ser valiente y no tener miedo.

I’d like respect, but failing that, a little healthy fear can go a long way to making things run smoothly.

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

Vashet shook a finger and cuffed the young girl on the side of her head. It was the same scolding any child receives. Stay out of the neighbor’s garden. Don’t tease the Bentons’ sheep. Don’t play tag among the thousand spinning knives of your people’s sacred tree.

Any joy that grows here is quickly choked by weeds. I am not some monster who destroys out of a twisted pleasure. I sow salt because the choice is between weeds and nothing.