Patrick Rothfuss Quotes

A woman who goes around wearing a knife is obviously looking for trouble." She reached deep into her pocket and brought out a long, slender piece of metal, glittering all along one edge. "However a woman who carries a knife is ready for trouble. Generally speaking, it's easier to appear harmless. It's less trouble all around.

Nothing was nothing else. Nothing was anything it shouldn’t be.

They were everything they ought to be and nothing else.

Yesterday he had limped, but today there was no part of his feet that didn't hurt, so limping did no good.

One wife, you're happy, two and you're tired, three and they'll hate each other, four and they'll hate you.

I can't give you the moon,” the tinker said. “She doesn't belong to me. She belongs only to herself.

When you love something, you have to make sure it loves you back, or you'll bring about no end of trouble chasing it.

I thought of all the others who had tried to tie her to the ground and failed. So I resisted showing her the songs and poems I had written, knowing that too much truth can ruin a thing. And if that meant she wasn't entirely mine, what of it? I would be the one she could always return to without fear of recrimination or question. So I did not try to win her and contented myself with playing a beautiful game. But there was always a part of me that hoped for more, and so there was a part of me that was always a fool.