Patrick Rothfuss Quotes

Sometimes the hardest thing about committing the perfect crime can be keeping your genius to yourself.

I want to keep people guessing.

Whoever wishes to keep a secret must hide the fact that he possesses one.

Secrecy is one of the shadier sides of private and public life.

I try to keep everything under wraps. Everything I can do to make sure people don't know what they're getting themselves into, I will do it.

Conceal me what I am, and be my aid for such disguise as haply shall become the form of my intent.

Lord Tyrawley and I have been dead these two years, but we don't choose to have it known.

What I have found is, anything one keeps hidden should now and then be hidden somewhere else.

Sometimes the best hiding place is the one that's in plain sight.

I want as much time in the darkness as I can possibly have. The darkness provides cover, the darkness provides places to hide and the darkness provides comfort. Darkness usually comes around dinner, but dinner would be too obvious.

To keep your actions and your plans secret always has been a very good thing . .. Marcus Crassus said to one who asked him when he was going to move the army: 'Do you believe that you will be the only one not to hear the trumpet?

Niten's eyes didn't move, but a trace of a smile curled his lips. "I do not need my eyes to tell me where I'm going." "I have no idea what that means," Josh said. "Is it like some sort of ninja trick?" Niten shot Josh a warning look. "Whatever you do, don't mention-" It was too late. In the backseat Aoife stirred. "Ninjas," she spat. "Why is everyone so obsessed with ninjas? They were never that good. And they were cowards, sneaking around in their black pajamas, stabbing their victims with poisoned darts. I hate ninjas-they have no honor.

It would have been the easiest thing in the world for us to build those emplacements under the guise of something totally different and they would have never been discovered. The amazing thing was that they weren't discovered earlier. It was a question of carelessness, lack of foresight.

What ever you do-Don't get caught.

Hiding is for amateurs.

He that has a secret should not only hide it, but hide that he has it to hide.

In making tactical dispositions, the highest pitch you can attain is to conceal them.

O divine art of subtlety and secrecy!

If you're trying to hide something, you wouldn't keep getting away with it for 10 years. Nobody is that clever.

The truth that makes us free is always ticking away like a time-bomb in the basement of everybody's church.

The only way to retrieve a secret,once known, is to replace it with a lie.

...people with nothing to declare carry the most.

Don't lie, but don't tell the whole truth.

Everybody has something to conceal.

The creatures I seek do not want to be seen.