Patrick Rothfuss Quotes

It is the flash which appears, the thunderbolt will follow.

If there were no thunder, men would have little fear of lightning.

The rain comes when the wind calls.

One of the things that has really hit home for me is that the world is how we decide it is going to be. Very few things just happen. They grow out of history, and they grow out of the present, and the more we can get a sense of how our actions lead into other actions in the future, hopefully we'll learn to make better decisions.

What you know today can affect what you do tomorrow. But what you know today cannot affect what you did yesterday.

You can't create a monster, then whine when it stomps on a few buildings.

Evil events from evil causes spring.

Out of bad motives good things often come.

We have to live with the world that we helped to create.

I think we all change each other's paths. I don't know which law idea that is in physics, but I don't think any of us can live without affecting one another.

It's quite possible there's as much lightning on Venus as on Earth.

You don't want to put somebody in a bad spot because you'll put everybody in a bad spot.

Cause and effect are never divided between two people.

As we act 'right,' our right results are guaranteed.

Every cloud engenders not a storm.

Feeling is what you get for thinking the way you do.

In any case, fire burns; that's its nature, and you can't expect to change that. You can use it to cook your meat or to burn down your neighbor's house. And is the fire you use for cooking any different from the one you use for burning? And does that mean you should eat your supper raw?" Maddy shook her head, still puzzled. "So what you're saying is . . . I shouldn't play with fire," she said at last. Of course you should," said One-Eye gently. "But don't be surprised if the fire plays back.

Events, circumstances, etc., have their origin in ourselves. They spring from seeds which we have sown.

You can’t reach good ends through evil means, because the means represent the seed and the end represents the tree.

I believe that the means you use will determine the end you receive.

Tempests, and bright lightnings, are to be sung; their nature is to be told, and from what cause they pursue their course; lest, having foolishly divided the heaven into parts, you should be anxious as to the quarter from which the flying flame may come, or to what region it may betake itself; and tremble to think how it penetrates through walled enclosures, and how, having exercised its power, it extricates itself from them. Of which phenomena the multitude can by no means see the causes, and think that they are accomplished by supernatural power.

There are rules, and when certain things happen, there are ceratin consequences.

If we saw tomorrow's newspaper today, tomorrow would never happen.

A fool puts her hand into a hollow tree without finding out what's inside first.

A whole tree of lightning stood in the sky. She kept looking out the window, suffused with the warmth from the fire and with the pity and beauty and power of her death. The thunder rolled.