Patrick Rothfuss: Frases en inglés

“Secrets of the heart. We swallow hard against them every day, forcing them deep inside us. There they sit, growing heavier, festering. Given enough time, they cannot help but crush the heart that holds them.”

Patrick Rothfuss libro El temor de un hombre sabio

“A tinker’s debt is always paid:
Once for any simple trade.
Twice for freely given aid.
Thrice for any insult made.”

Patrick Rothfuss libro El nombre del viento

“How odd to watch a mortal kindle / Then to dwindle day by day / Knowing their bright souls are tinder / And the wind will have its way”

Patrick Rothfuss libro El temor de un hombre sabio

“Emotions by their very nature are not reasonable things.”

Patrick Rothfuss libro El nombre del viento

“Some days simply lay on you like stones. Some were fickle as cats, sliding away when you needed comfort, then coming back later when you didn’t want them, jostling at you, stealing your breath.”

Patrick Rothfuss libro The Slow Regard of Silent Things

“Words cannot always do the work we need them to. Music is there for when words fail us.”

Patrick Rothfuss libro El temor de un hombre sabio

“Small facts lead to great knowing.”

Patrick Rothfuss libro El temor de un hombre sabio

“I scowled as loudly as I could.”

Patrick Rothfuss libro El temor de un hombre sabio

“All stories are true.”

Patrick Rothfuss libro El nombre del viento

“Soon. She knew. Soon he would come visiting. Incarnadine and sweet and sad and broken. Just like her.”

Patrick Rothfuss libro The Slow Regard of Silent Things

“Damn chicken. Come eat your dinner. I'm cold.”

Patrick Rothfuss libro El nombre del viento

“Asleep she was a painting of a fire. Awake she was the fire itself”

Patrick Rothfuss libro El temor de un hombre sabio

“One of them had a large wooden sign nailed to its door proclaiming, NO SYMPATHY! I wondered what non-arcane visitors might think of the warning.”

Patrick Rothfuss libro El nombre del viento

“Looters become looted, while time and tide make us mercenaries all.”

Patrick Rothfuss libro El temor de un hombre sabio

“The air was heavy with the smell of leather and dust, of old parchment and binding glue. It smelled of secrets.”

Patrick Rothfuss libro El temor de un hombre sabio

“She felt… less. She felt tamped down. Dim. More faint. Feint. Feigned. Fain.”

Patrick Rothfuss libro The Slow Regard of Silent Things

“I want a magical horse that fits in my pocket," Wil said. "And a ring of red amber that gives me power over demons. And an endless supply of cake.”

Patrick Rothfuss libro El temor de un hombre sabio

“She knew the true shape of the world. All else was shadow and the sound of distant drums.”

Patrick Rothfuss libro The Slow Regard of Silent Things

“But even this piece of flattery couldn't distract me from the fact that I was in the center of the Fae realm, blind, stark naked, and without the slightest idea of what was going on.”

Patrick Rothfuss libro El temor de un hombre sabio