Do not mistake me for my mask. You see light dappling on the water and forget the deep, cold dark beneath.
Patrick RothfussAuri took it, and peered inside the small leather sack. โWhy this is lovely, Kvothe. What lives in the salt?โ Trace minerals, I thought. Chromium, bassal, malium, iodine . . . everything your body needs but probably canโt get from apples and bread and whatever you manage to scrounge up when I canโt find you. โThe dreams of fish,โ I said. โAnd sailorโs songs.
Patrick RothfussHumor is important. If you're going to tell any sort of realistic story, you're going to have to have humor in it, because people are funny. Clever people especially.
Patrick RothfussI don't feel beholden to follow the real world at all. The important thing is to know WHY things turned out the way they did. You need to understand the reasons for events, or at least be able to make reasonable guesses about them.
Patrick RothfussThe 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 autumnโs 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