I almost got a psychology degree, I almost got a philosophy degree. I kept changing it so they couldn't make me graduate. Furthermore, I studied anthropology and eastern religion, epistemology, and astronomy... Furthermore, I took every interesting course I could find for nine years.

— Patrick Rothfuss

I always read. You know how sharks have to keep swimming, or they die? I’m like that. If I stop reading, I die.

— Patrick Rothfuss

I am Edema Run to my bones. That means my blood is red. It means I breathe the free air and walk where my feet take me. I do not cringe and fawn like a dog at a man's title. That looks like pride to people who have spent their lives cultivating supple spines.

— Patrick Rothfuss

I am no poet. I do not love words for the sake of words. Furthermore, 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

I am sorry to tell you this thing. You are a good man, and a pretty thing. But still, you are only a man. All you have to offer the world is your anger.

— Patrick Rothfuss

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

I can't count the men who have tried to seduce me away from my virtue by teaching me how to defend it.

— Patrick Rothfuss

I can't give you the moon,” the tinker said. “She doesn't belong to me. She belongs only to herself.

— Patrick Rothfuss

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

I’d heard you were dead.”" I heard you wear a red lace corset,” I said matter-of-factly. “But I don’t believe every bit of nonsense that gets rumored about.

— Patrick Rothfuss