Patrick Rothfuss Quotes - Page 3

There is something deeply satisfying in shaping something with your hands. Proper artificing is like a song made solid. It is an act of creation.

It felt exactly like someone had hit me in the head with a church.

I heard the silence pouring from them. The audience held themselves quiet, tense, and tight, as if the song had burned them worse than flame.

Each person held their wounded selves closely, clutching their pain as if it were a precious thing.

What what," Trapis said as he hurried over to tend to her, his bare feet slapping on the floor. "What what. Hush hush.

If you fall, you fall," Elodin shrugged. "Sometimes falling teaches us things too." In dreams you often fall before you wake.

The point isn't to win the game. The point is to play a beautiful game. (paraphrased)

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 sleeping less to give her the time she needed.

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

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.

A poet is a musician that can't sing. Words have to find a man's mind before they can touch his heart, and some men's minds are woeful small targets. Music touches their hearts directly no matter how small or stubborn the mind of the man who listens.

He had a bright, reckless tenor that was always wandering off, looking for notes in the wrong places.

Music explains itself...It is the road and it is the map that shows the road. It is both together.

Then I played the song that hides in the center of me. That wordless music that moves through the secret places in my heart. I played it carefully, strumming it slow and low into the dark stillness of the night. I would like to say it is a happy song, that it is sweet and bright, but it is not.

Kid's books should be just as good as any other books. No. They should be held to a *higher* standard than other literature for the same reason that we take extra care with children's food.

If power is the only important thing, then Frodo loses against Sauron. Hell, if power’s the only important thing then Gandalf loses against Sauron. If magic is the deciding factor of a fight, then four plucky kids from England get their asses turned to stone by the White Which.

Power is okay, and stupidity is usually harmless. Power and stupidity together are dangerous".

Too much honesty makes you sound insincere.

... for most practical purposes, Tarbean had two parts: Waterside and Hillside. Waterside is where people are poor. That makes them beggars, thieves and whores. Hillside is where people are rich. That makes them solicitors, politicians and courtesans.

His voice is like a thunderstorm, and his hands know every secret hidden deep beneath the cool, dark earth.