Name Of The Wind Quotes

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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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• Remember this son, if you forget everything else. A poet is a musician who 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.

  Patrick Rothfuss

  Heart, Son, Men

  Patrick Rothfuss (2010). “The Name of the Wind: The Kingkiller Chonicle:”, p.91, Hachette UK

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• 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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  There are three things all wise men fear: the sea in storm, a night with no moon, and the anger of a gentle man.

  Patrick Rothfuss

  Life, Wise, Wisdom

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

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• There are times when the mind is dealt such a blow it hides itself in insanity. While this may not seem beneficial, it is. There are times when reality is nothing but pain, and to escape that pain the mind must leave reality behind.

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  Time, Pain, Blow

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• So yes. It had flaws, but what does that matter when it comes to matters of the heart? We love what we love. Reason does not enter into it. In many ways, unwise love is the truest love. Anyone can love a thing because. That's as easy as putting a penny in your pocket. But to love something despite. To know the flaws and love them too. That is rare and pure and perfect.

  Patrick Rothfuss

  Love, Heart, Perfect

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

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  It's like everyone tells a story about themselves inside their own head. Always. All the time. That story makes you what you are. We build ourselves out of that story.

  Patrick Rothfuss

  Life, Healing, Identity

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

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• Only priests and fools are fearless and I've never been on the best of terms with God.

  Patrick Rothfuss

  Fearless, Fool, Priests

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• The day we fret about the future is the day we leave our childhood behind.

  Patrick Rothfuss

  Growing Up, Childhood, Grew Up

  Patrick Rothfuss (2010). “The Name of the Wind: The Kingkiller Chonicle:”, p.73, Hachette UK

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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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• 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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• 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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• Dawn was coming. The Waystone Inn lay in silence, and it was a silence of three parts.

  Patrick Rothfuss

  Silence, Three, Dawn

  Patrick Rothfuss (2011). “The Wise Man's Fear: The Kingkiller Chronicle: Day Two”, p.12, Penguin

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• Words have to find a man's mind before they can touch his heart, and some men's minds are woefully small targets.

  Patrick Rothfuss

  Heart, Men, Mind

  Patrick Rothfuss (2010). “The Name of the Wind: The Kingkiller Chonicle:”, p.91, Hachette UK

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• The Waystone was his, just as the third silence was his. This was appropriate, as it was the greatest silence of the three, wrapping the others inside itself. It was deep and wide as autumn’s ending. It was heavy as a great river-smooth stone. It was the patient, cut-flower sound of a man who is waiting to die.

  Patrick Rothfuss

  Flower, Autumn, Cutting

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• You are not wise enough to fear me as I should be feared.

  Patrick Rothfuss

  Wise, Enough, Should

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• Sleep marks passing time, giving us distance from the things that have hurt us. When a person is wounded they will often fall unconscious. Similarly, someone who hears traumatic news will often swoon or faint. This is the mind's way of protecting itself from pain.

  Patrick Rothfuss

  Hurt, Pain, Distance

  Patrick Rothfuss (2010). “The Name of the Wind: The Kingkiller Chonicle:”, p.108, Hachette UK

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

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  Uncouth, Courses, Kvothe

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

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• Congratulations. That was the stupidest thing I've ever seen. Ever.

  Patrick Rothfuss

  Congratulations, Stupidest

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• We are more than the parts that form us.

  Patrick Rothfuss

  Form

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• My parents danced together, her head on his chest. Both had their eyes closed. They seemed so perfectly content. If you can find someone like that, someone who you can hold and close your eyes to the world with, then you're lucky. Even if it only lasts for a minute or a day. The image of them gently swaying to the music is how I picture love in my mind even after all these years.

  Patrick Rothfuss

  Love Picture, Eye, Years

  Patrick Rothfuss (2010). “The Name of the Wind: The Kingkiller Chonicle:”, p.96, Hachette UK

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• 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.

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• Using words to talk of words is like using a pencil to draw a picture of itself, on itself. Impossible. Confusing. Frustrating ... but there are other ways to understanding.

  Patrick Rothfuss

  Understanding, Confusing, Way

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• Bones mend. Regret stays with you forever.

  Patrick Rothfuss

  Regret, Forever, Bones

  "The Name of the Wind: The Kingkiller Chronicle". Book by Patrick Rothfuss, books.google.ru. April 22,2010.

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• It was the patient, cut-flower sound of a man who is waiting to die.

  Patrick Rothfuss

  Flower, Cutting, Men

  Patrick Rothfuss (2011). “The Wise Man's Fear: The Kingkiller Chronicle: Day Two”, p.12, Penguin

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