Patrick Rothfuss Quotes About Songs

Quotes about: Songs

• 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 University at a younger age than most people are allowed in. I tread paths by moonlight that others fear to speak of during day. I have talked to gods, loved women, and written songs that make the minstrels weep. You may have heard of me.

  Patrick Rothfuss

  Song, Kings, Princess

  "The Name of the Wind". Book by Patrick Rothfuss, March 27, 2007.

• 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.

  Patrick Rothfuss

  Beautiful, Song, Winning

• 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.

  Patrick Rothfuss

  Song, Sweet, Moving

  Patrick Rothfuss (2011). “The Wise Man's Fear: The Kingkiller Chronicle: Day Two”, p.740, Penguin

• Someone's parents have been singing entirely the wrong sort of songs.

  Patrick Rothfuss

  Song, Parent, Singing

  Patrick Rothfuss (2011). “The Wise Man's Fear: The Kingkiller Chronicle: Day Two”, p.78, Penguin

• Auri took it, and peered inside the small leather sack. “Why this is lovely, Kvothe. What lives in the salt?” Trace minerals, I thought. Chromium, bassal, malium, iodine . . . everything your body needs but probably can’t get from apples and bread and whatever you manage to scrounge up when I can’t find you. “The dreams of fish,” I said. “And sailor’s songs.

  Patrick Rothfuss

  Dream, Song, Apples

• I'd like to do an anthology. Maybe a collection of songs set in my world, or based on my world. I think that would be a lot of fun.

  Patrick Rothfuss

  Song, Fun, Thinking

  "Patrick Rothfuss Interview: The 2013 Fantasy Pin-Up Calendar". Interview with Shawn Speakman, www.unboundworlds.com. October 29, 2012.

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