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“There are three things all wise men fear: the sea in storm, a night with no moon, and the anger of a gentle man.”
― Patrick Rothfuss, The Wise Man's Fear

“It's the questions we can't answer that teach us the most. They teach us how to think. If you give a man an answer, all he gains is a little fact. But give him a question and he'll look for his own answers.”
― Patrick Rothfuss, The Wise Man's Fear

“It had flaws, but what does that matter when it comes to matters of the heart? We love what we love. Reason does not enter into it. In many ways, unwise love is the truest love. Anyone can love a thing because. That's as easy as putting a penny in your pocket. But to love something despite. To know the flaws and love them too. That is rare and pure and perfect.”
― Patrick Rothfuss, The Wise Man's Fear

“Half of seeming clever is keeping your mouth shut at the right times.”
― Patrick Rothfuss, The Wise Man's Fear

“Pride and folly, they go together like two tightly grasping hands.”
― Patrick Rothfuss, The Wise Man's Fear

“There's looking and there's looking. When some men look at you it's a greasy thing. It makes you want to have a bath. With other men it's nice. It helps you know you're beautiful.”
― Patrick Rothfuss, The Wise Man's Fear

“Absence feeds affection.”
― Patrick Rothfuss, The Wise Man's Fear

“Music explains itself...It is the road and it is the map that shows the road. It is both together.”
― Patrick Rothfuss, The Wise Man's Fear

“I do this so you cannot help but hear. A wise man views a moonless night with fear.”
― Patrick Rothfuss, The Wise Man's Fear

“No one enjoys being talked down to, but I have a particular aversion to it.”
― Patrick Rothfuss, The Wise Man's Fear

“Why would I want to win anything other than a beautiful game?”
― Patrick Rothfuss, The Wise Man's Fear

“My bad luck got tangled up with my bad decisions, and I'm paying for it.”
― Patrick Rothfuss, The Wise Man's Fear

“You know, I could have carried you.”
― Patrick Rothfuss, The Wise Man's Fear

“...nothing in the world is harder than convincing someone of an unfamiliar truth.”
― Patrick Rothfuss, The Wise Man's Fear

“My shrug was so nonchalant it would make a cat jealous”
― Patrick Rothfuss, The Wise Man's Fear

“But to love something despite. To know the flaws and love them too. This is rare and pure and perfect.”
― Patrick Rothfuss, The Wise Man's Fear

“Secrets of the heart. We swallow hard against them every day, forcing them deep inside us. There they sit, growing heavier, festering. Given enough time, they cannot help but crush the heart that holds them.”
― Patrick Rothfuss, The Wise Man's Fear

“...If there's one thing I'm well versed in it's my own good qualities.”
― Patrick Rothfuss, The Wise Man's Fear

“When you love something, you have to make sure it loves you back, or you'll bring about no end of trouble chasing it.”
― Patrick Rothfuss, The Wise Man's Fear

“But sometimes the best help a person can find is helping someone else.”
― Patrick Rothfuss, The Wise Man's Fear

“You,” I said, “are sweet music in a distant room.”
― Patrick Rothfuss, The Wise Man's Fear

“The desire for knowledge shapes a man.”
― Patrick Rothfuss, The Wise Man's Fear

“Good lord woman. If i had tits like yours I'd own half the world by now.”
― Patrick Rothfuss, The Wise Man's Fear

“Small facts lead to great knowing.”
― Patrick Rothfuss, The Wise Man's Fear

“Just because I tread heavily on propriety's toes doesn't mean I can't play the game when it's of use to me.”
― Patrick Rothfuss, The Wise Man's Fear

“Pride is always a better lever against the nobility than reason.”
― Patrick Rothfuss, The Wise Man's Fear

“Just a little. Just the first faint breath of love... It wasn’t dramatic, like some bolt of lightning with a crack of thunder following. It was more like when flint strikes steel and the spark fades almost too fast for you to see. But still, you know it’s there, down where you can’t see, kindling.”
― Patrick Rothfuss, The Wise Man's Fear

“...if I have ever met someone without a single shadow on their heart, it was surely a child too young for speaking.”
― Patrick Rothfuss, The Wise Man's Fear

“I won the only duel I ever lost.”
― Patrick Rothfuss, The Wise Man's Fear

“It took him a long, miserable time before he realized the truth of things: There is a great deal of difference between a penis and a heart.”
― Patrick Rothfuss, The Wise Man's Fear