Kvothe Quotes

• 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.

  Patrick Rothfuss

  Wise, Fear, Men

  Patrick Rothfuss (2011). “The Wise Man's Fear: The Kingkiller Chronicle: Day Two”, p.521, Penguin

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• I have, of course, been called many other things. Most of them uncouth, although very few were unearned

  Patrick Rothfuss

  Name Of The Wind, Uncouth, Courses

  Patrick Rothfuss (2010). “The Name of the Wind: The Kingkiller Chonicle:”, p.50, Hachette UK

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• Re'lar Kvothe," he said seriously. "I am trying to wake your sleeping mind to the subtle language the world is whispering. I am trying to seduce you into understanding. I am trying to teach you." He leaned forward until his face was almost touching mine. "Quit grabbing at my tits.

  Patrick Rothfuss

  Sleep, Understanding, Touching

  Patrick Rothfuss (2011). “The Wise Man's Fear: The Kingkiller Chronicle: Day Two”, p.222, Penguin

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  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

  Heart, Men, Fire

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

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• It's the questions we can't answer that teach us the most. They teach us how to think.

  Patrick Rothfuss

  Thinking, Fantasy Stories, Answers

  Patrick Rothfuss (2011). “The Wise Man's Fear”, p.521, Penguin

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• You,” I said, “are sweet music in a distant room.

  Patrick Rothfuss

  Sweet, Rooms, Said

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• “I will admit, I've never had a student offer himself up for a vicious beating in order to prove he's worth my time.” “This was nothing... Once I jumped off a roof.”

  Patrick Rothfuss

  Order, Vicious, Roof

  "The Wise Man's Fear". Book by Patrick Rothfuss, March 1, 2011.

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• But to love something despite. To know the flaws and love them too. This is rare and pure and perfect.

  Patrick Rothfuss

  Perfect, Fantasy Love, And Love

  Patrick Rothfuss (2011). “The Wise Man's Fear: The Kingkiller Chronicle: Day Two”, p.57, Penguin

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• Just a little. Just the first faint breath of love... It wasn’t dramatic, like some bolt of lightning with a crack of thunder following. It was more like when flint strikes steel and the spark fades almost too fast for you to see. But still, you know it’s there, down where you can’t see, kindling.

  Patrick Rothfuss

  Lightning, Cracks, Steel

  Patrick Rothfuss (2011). “The Wise Man's Fear”, p.265, Penguin

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• 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. There are seven words that will make a person love you. There are ten words that will break a strong man's will. But a word is nothing but a painting of a fire. A name is the fire itself.

  Patrick Rothfuss

  Strong, Love You, Heart

  "The Name of the Wind (The Kingkiller Chronicle, Book 1)". Book by Patrick Rothfuss, March 27, 2007.

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• Chronicler picked up his pen, but before he could dip it, Kvothe held up a hand. "Let me say one thing before I start. I've told stories in the past, painted pictures with words, told hard lies and harder truths. Once, I sang colors to a blind man. Seven hours I played, but at the end he said he saw them, green and red and gold. That, I think, was easier than this. Trying to make you understand her with nothing more than words. You have never seen her, never heard her voice. You cannot know.

  Patrick Rothfuss

  Lying, Past, Men

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• 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

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• Still, these days when I daydream about the movie, I don't think about the big picture. It's more fun for me to think of little things that would add to the movie. I like to think the powers that be would let me amuse myself with some small things in order to shut me up while they re-write the screenplay to turn Kvothe into a lesbian, shape-changing unicorn.

  Patrick Rothfuss

  Fun, Writing, Thinking

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• Close your mouth, E'lir Kvothe, or I will feel obliged to put some vile tonic in it.

  Patrick Rothfuss

  Mouths, Feels, Obliged

  Patrick Rothfuss (2010). “The Name of the Wind: The Kingkiller Chonicle:”, p.235, Hachette UK

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• The Chancellor looked down at the empty table for a minute. Then he shrugged, looked up, and gave a surprisingly jaunty smile. "All in favor of admitting first-term Kvothe's reckless use of sympathy as proof of mastery of basic principles of sympathy vote by show of hands.

  Patrick Rothfuss

  Hands, Principles, Mastery

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• THE NAME OF THE WIND marks the debut of a writer we would all do well to watch. Patrick Rothfuss has real talent, and his tale of Kvothe is deep and intricate and wondrous.

  Terry Brooks

  Real, Wind, Names

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• After an awkward pause, Bast extended his hand. Chronicler hesitated for a bare moment before reaching out quickly, as if he were sticking his hand into a fire. Nothing happened, both of them seemed moderately surprised. "Amazing, isn't it?" Kvothe addressed them bitingly. "Five fingers and flesh with blood beneath. One could almost believe that on the other end of that hand lay a person of some sort.

  Patrick Rothfuss

  Believe, Fire, Blood

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• If your name is getting too heavy, you should have Kvothe give you a new one.

  Patrick Rothfuss

  Should Have, Names, Giving

  Patrick Rothfuss (2011). “The Wise Man's Fear: The Kingkiller Chronicle: Day Two”, p.108, Penguin

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