quotes by Patrick Rothfuss

"Words are pale shadows of forgotten names. As names have power, words have power. Words can light fires in the minds of men. Words can wring tears from the hardest hearts."
— Patrick Rothfuss (The Name of the Wind (The Kingkiller Chronicle: Day One))

"It's like everyone tells a story about themselves inside their own head. Always. All the time. That story makes you what you are. We build ourselves out of that story."
— Patrick Rothfuss (The Name of the Wind (The Kingkiller Chronicle: Day One))

"We are more than the parts that form us. "
— Patrick Rothfuss

"When we are children we seldom think about the future. This innocence leaves us free to enjoy ourselves as few adults can. The day we fret about the future is the day we leave our childhood behind."
— Patrick Rothfuss (The Name of the Wind (The Kingkiller Chronicle: Day One))

"I wanted to tell her that she was the first beautiful thing I had seen in three years. That the sight of her yawning to the back of her hand was enought to drive the breath from me. How I sometimes lost the sense of her words in the sweet fluting of her voice. I wanted to say that if she were with me then somehow nothing could ever be wrong for me again."
— Patrick Rothfuss (The Name of the Wind (The Kingkiller Chronicle: Day One))

"Using words to talk of words is like using a pencil to draw a picture of itself, on itself. Impossible. Confusing. Frustrating ... but there are other ways to understanding."
— Patrick Rothfuss (The Name of the Wind (The Kingkiller Chronicle: Day One))

"When the hearthfire turns to blue,
what to do? what to do?
run outside, run and hide

when his eyes are black as crow?
where to go? where to go?
near and far. Here they are.

see a man without a face?
move like ghosts from place to place.
whats their plan? whats their plan?
Chandrian. Chandrian"
— Patrick Rothfuss (The Name of the Wind (The Kingkiller Chronicle: Day One))