Patrick Rothfuss: Frases en inglés

“Hespe's mouth went firm. She didn't scowl exactly, but it looked like she was getting all the pieces of a scowl together in one place, just in case she needed them in a hurry.”

Patrick Rothfuss libro El temor de un hombre sabio

“What use is? What good is watching for that matter? People are forever watching things. They should be. Ithe things I look at. I am a see-er.”

Patrick Rothfuss libro El temor de un hombre sabio

“It took him a long, miserable time before he realized the truth of things: There is a great deal of difference between a penis and a heart.”

Patrick Rothfuss libro El temor de un hombre sabio

“The desire for knowledge shapes a man.”

Patrick Rothfuss libro El temor de un hombre sabio

“Do not mistake me for my mask. You see light dappling on the water and forget the deep, cold dark beneath.”

Patrick Rothfuss libro El nombre del viento

“I like your manly bravado," she said. "Do it some more.”

Patrick Rothfuss libro El nombre del viento

“But sometimes the best help a person can find is helping someone else.”

Patrick Rothfuss libro El temor de un hombre sabio

“Do you just want to get by? Or do you want to make me proud?”

Patrick Rothfuss libro El nombre del viento

“The second was some rather bad poetry, but it was short, and I forced my way through by gritting my teeth and occasionally closing one eye so as not to damage the entirety of my brain.”

Patrick Rothfuss libro El temor de un hombre sabio

“Ambrose, your presence is the horseshit frosting on the horseshit cake that is the admissions interview process.”

Patrick Rothfuss libro El temor de un hombre sabio

“If I could sum it up in 50 words, I wouldn't have needed to write a whole novel about it.”

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“But no. There is a difference between the truth and what we wish were true.”

Patrick Rothfuss libro The Slow Regard of Silent Things

“I cannot help but wonder how many of us walk through our lives, day after day, feeling slightly broken and alone, surrounded all the time by others who feel exactly the same way.”

Patrick Rothfuss libro The Slow Regard of Silent Things

“I'll string a fiddle with your guts and make you play it while I dance.”

Patrick Rothfuss libro El nombre del viento

“The seeds of the past bear fruit in the present.”

Patrick Rothfuss libro El temor de un hombre sabio

“I’d heard he had started a fistfight in one of the seedier local taverns because someone had insisted on saying the word “utilize” instead of “use.”

Patrick Rothfuss libro El temor de un hombre sabio

“If I seem to wander, if I seem to stray, remember that true stories seldom take the straightest way”

Patrick Rothfuss libro El nombre del viento

“I need you to breathe for me.”

Patrick Rothfuss libro El temor de un hombre sabio

“I am no poet. I do not love words for the sake of words. I love words for what they can accomplish. Similarly, I am no arithmetician. Numbers that speak only of numbers are of little interest to me.”

Patrick Rothfuss libro El temor de un hombre sabio