The Wise Man S Fear Quotes

“Why are you smiling?'
'I'm relieved,' I said honestly. 'I was worried I'd given myself cadmium poisoning, or I had some mysterious disease. This is just someone trying to kill me.”
― Patrick Rothfuss

“...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

“It’s not over if you’re still here,” Chronicler said. “It’s not a tragedy if you’re still alive.”

Bast nodded eagerly at this, looking back at Kvothe.

Kvothe looked at both of them for a moment, then smiled and chuckled low in his chest. “Oh,” he said fondly. “You’re both so young.”
― Patrick Rothfuss, The Wise Man's Fear

“It's easy to forget when you're around." She stopped walking for a moment and I had to stop too, as she'd linked her arm in mine. "That's not right. I mean to say that when you're around, it's easy to forget."
"Forget what?"
"Everything," she said, and for a moment her voice wasn't quite as playful. "All the bad parts in my life. Who I am. It's nice to be able to take a vacation from myself every once in a while. You help with that. You're my safe harbor in an endless, stormy sea.”
― Patrick Rothfuss

“If whatever you're going to do is wrong, you might as well do whatever you want.”
― Rothfuss Patrick

“«Siempre he preferido las noches sin luna. A oscuras es más fácil hablar. Es más fácil ser uno mismo»
—Denna.”
― Patrick Rothfuss, El temor de un hombre sabio

“Apparently the soft cheese I'd been served possessed a rind.A rind any civilized person would have recognized as inedible and meant to be pared away.

Barbarian that I am,I had eaten all of it.It had tasted quite nice too. Still,I took not of this and resigned myself to throw away half of a perfectly good cheese if it was set in front of me.

Such is the price of civilization.”
― Patrick Rothfuss, The Wise Man's Fear

“My alar is like the ocean in storm. (Devi)”
― Patrick Rothfuss, The Wise Man's Fear

“If we were living in a better age they'd build a temple around a woman like that.”
― Patrick Rothfuss, Paradise Lost

“The poorer you are, the more your pride is worth.”
― Patrick Rothfuss, The Wise Man's Fear

“Cualquiera puede amar algo por algún motivo. Eso es tan fácil como meterse un penique en el bolsillo. Pero amar algo a pesar de algo es otra cosa. Conocer los defectos y amarlos también. Eso es inusual, puro y perfecto.”
El Temor De Un Hombre Sabio.”
― Patrick Rothfuss

“A well-spoken sentence in Aturan is a straight line pointing. A well-spoken sentence in Adem is like a spiderweb, each strand with a meaning of its own, a piece of something greater, more complex.”
― Patrick Rothfuss, The Wise Man's Fear

“My fingers darted, then danced, then flew. I played hard as a hailstorm, like a hammer beating brass. I played soft as sun on autumn wheat, gentle as a single stirring leaf.”
― Patrick Rothfuss, The Wise Man's Fear

“My alar is like the ocean in storm.”
― Patrick Rothfuss, The Wise Man's Fear

“so höre denn, was zu hören lohnt: es fürchte der weise die nacht ohne mond.”
― Patrick Rothfuss

“I have heard what poets write about women. They rhyme and rhapsodize and lie. I have watched old sailors on the shore stare mutely at the slow-rolling swell of the sea. I have watched old soldiers with their hearts like leather grow teary-eyed at their king's colours stretched against the wind.”
― Patrick Rothfuss, The Wise Man's Fear