Lindsay Racen > Lindsay's Quotes

“She smelled faintly of wildflowers. But beneath that she smelled like autumn leaves. Like the dark smell of her own hair, like road dust and the air before a summer storm.”
― Patrick Rothfuss, The Wise Man's Fear

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

“You’d be amazed at how similar arrogance and confidence look at first glance.”
― Patrick Rothfuss, The Wise Man's Fear

“Too much looking can get in the way of seeing,”
― Patrick Rothfuss, The Wise Man's Fear

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

“Graciousness is the luxury of the wise,”
― Patrick Rothfuss, The Wise Man's Fear

“Rumor forces us to act before we are ready, or ruins a situation before it becomes fully ripe.”
― Patrick Rothfuss, The Wise Man's Fear

“Songs choose their hour and their own season. When your tune’s tin, there is a reason. The tone of a tune is your heart’s mettle, and there’s no clear water from a muddy well. All you can do is let the silt settle, or you’ll sound sour as a broken bell.” I”
― Patrick Rothfuss, The Wise Man's Fear

“IN THE THEOPHANY, TECCAM writes of secrets, calling them painful treasures of the mind. He explains that what most people think of as secrets are really nothing of the sort. Mysteries, for example, are not secrets. Neither are little-known facts or forgotten truths. A secret, Teccam explains, is true knowledge actively concealed. Philosophers”
― 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

“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.” I”
― Patrick Rothfuss, The Wise Man's Fear

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

“This is why we have music, after all. Words cannot always do the work we need them to. Music is there for when words fail us. Finally”
― Patrick Rothfuss, The Wise Man's Fear

“Music carries words over miles and into hearts and memories.”
― Patrick Rothfuss, The Wise Man's Fear

“A long stretch of road will teach you more about yourself than a hundred years of quiet introspection.”
― 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

“It’s a good sign when a student goes chasing the wind and catches it,”
― Patrick Rothfuss, The Wise Man's Fear

“Opening a book was like opening a door to another world, and once she stepped across the threshold, she was transported. When she was reading a story, she lived inside a different skin. She”
― Susan Wiggs, Lakeshore Chronicles #4-6: Snowfall at Willow Lake\Fireside\Lakeshore Christmas

“It’s mighty strange, without a doubt Nobody knows you when you’re down and out”
― Kathryn Stockett, The Help

“What is home? Maybe it’s not a place, but a moment in time. When I was safe. Secure. Cared for. Home. It’s more than a point on a map. It’s a sensation. A feeling of comfort—feet”
― Susan Wiggs, The Key Ingredient

“Never let anyone tell you that food isn’t a kind of love. Yet”
― Susan Wiggs, The Key Ingredient

“a broken heart doesn’t care how the love got lost.”
― Susan Wiggs, The Key Ingredient

“In the hot, slow time of day when time and sun and thought slow to a dragging, shallow, pale crawl, there is the sound of heat. The grasshoppers and crickets sing and whine. Drying grass crackles. Dogs pant. There is the sound of breath and breathing, of an entire world collapsed under the apathy of the tropics.”
― Alexandra Fuller, Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight

“The world looks better when your belly is full, brighter and more hopeful. After”
― Alexandra Fuller, Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight

“Sometimes what we see as our purpose hurts us in the end.” Was”
― Denise Grover Swank, One Paris Summer

“All arguments, at their core, were about power. Who had it. Who wanted it. Who would surrender. Who would prevail.”
― Susan Wiggs, Family Tree

“No, this was the kind of moment that made everything stop. You separated it from every other one, pressing the feeling to your heart, like a dried flower slipped between the pages of a beloved book. The moment was made of something fragile and delicate, yet it possessed the power to last forever.”
― Susan Wiggs, Family Tree

“Why did joy bring the same tears as sadness? Why did the throat and chest ache with fire, regardless? Was it because, deep down, everyone knew it was fragile and ephemeral? Did the tears come from the knowledge that everything could turn in the blink of an eye?”
― Susan Wiggs, Family Tree

“Through this. Through to where? Where did you end up when you got through something? What happened at the end of through? Was it a destination? Or another open door? An escape hatch?”
― Susan Wiggs, Family Tree

“Precision in language was the key to clarity. Specificity”
― Susan Wiggs, Family Tree