Quotes by Patrick Rothfuss

“I should have been bolder and kissed her at the end. I should have been more cautious. I had talked too much. I had said too little.”

“Too much honesty makes you sound insincere.”

“Music is a proud, temperamental mistress. Give her the time and attention she deserves, and she is yours. Slight her and there will come a day when you call and she will not answer. So I began slee...”

“Music sounds different to the one who plays it. It is the musician's curse.”

“Then I felt something inside me break and music began to pour out into the quiet. My fingers danced; intricate and quick they spun something gossamer and tremulous into the circle of light our fire...”

“You, I said, are sweet music in a distant room.”

“Words cannot always do the work we need them to. Music is there for when words fail us.”

“But no. There is a difference between the truth and what we wish were true.”

“I've always liked the moonless night best. It's easier to say things in the dark. It's easier to be yourself.”

“...nothing in the world is harder than convincing someone of an unfamiliar truth.”

“Lord but I dislike poetry. How can anyone remember words that aren't put to music?”

“You will not find it in the words of poets or the longing eyes of sailors. If you want to know of love, look to a trouper's hands as he makes his music. A trouper knows.”

“As I fingered my way through the songs, I felt my worries slough away. My music has always been the best remedy for my dark moods. As I sang, even my bruises seemed to pain me less.”

“There can be many opinions on a thing, but there is only one truth."Vashet smiled lazily. "And if the pursuit of the truth was my goal, that would concern me." She gave a long yawn, stretching like...”

“What is a whore?"Unsurprisingly, that hadn't been one of the words we had shared over the last span of days. For half a moment I considered lying, but there was no way I could manage it. "He says y...”

“I smiled,"Deoch, my heart is made of stronger stuff than glass. When she strikes she'll find it strong as iron-bound brass, or gold and adamant together mixed. Don't think I am unaware, some startl...”

“There is a great deal of difference between a penis and a heart.”

“Perhaps the greatest faculty our minds possess is the ability to cope with pain. Classic thinking teaches us of the four doors of the mind, which everyone moves through according to their need.Firs...”

“I have stolen princesses back from sleeping barrow kings. I burned down the town of Trebon. I have spent the night with Felurian and left with both my sanity and my life. I was expelled from the Un...”

“There are times when the mind is dealt such a blow it hides itself in insanity. While this may not seem beneficial, it is. There are times when reality is nothing but pain, and to escape that pain ...”