Patrick Rothfuss Quotes

She's easy to lead around, a shiny present here, a pretty compliment there, and you have true love and a popped cherry sacrificed to the god of deception and hormones. Young girls are so ridiculous--so predictably easy.

Particularly when you're young, you're terribly flattered by people who like you, so you think you love them.

Never let a fool kiss you, or a kiss fool you.

The easiest way to be cheated is to believe yourself to be more cunning than others.

Am I a fool? I don't think I'm a fool. But I think I sure was fooled.

Men are so simple and yield so readily to the desires of the moment that he who will trick will always find another who will suffer to be tricked.

She closed her eyes. "I didn't know that. i didn't know anything. It scares me the things I told myself. But I would have told myself almost anything, because I wanted to believe him." "Why?" "Because I wanted to be with you.

What a fool honesty is.

And you know, I believed him. What girl wouldn't?

It's easy enough to make the truth look silly. A man never seems more foolish-like than he does when he's speaking his whole mind and heart.

This perplexing, good natured boy who can spin out lies so convincingly to be hopelessly in love with me ... and I admit it there are moments when he makes me believe it myself.

Old birds like Orlovius are wonderfully easy to lead by the beak, because a combination of decency and sentimentality is exactly equal to being a fool.

And therefore is love said to be a child, Because in choice he is so oft beguil'd

You had this all planned, didn’t you?' I accused. 'Thought you could come in here and seduce me like you do everyone else?' It wasn’t as if I could be angry, lying atop him as I was, but I tried.

I had come in time to learn that it was a mistake to smile a friendly smile when somebody made a fool of me.

There are words which a man cannot resist from a woman, even though he knows them to be false.

Credulity is always a ridiculous, often a dangerous failing: it has made of many a clever man, a fool; and of many a good man, a knave.

People said things they didn't mean all the time. Everybody else in the world seemed able to factor it in. But not Lena. Why did she believe the things people said? Why did she cling to them so literally? Why did she think she knew people when she clearly didn't? Why did she imagine that the world didn't change, when it did? Maybe she didn't change. She believed what people said and she stayed the same." (Lena, 211)

Men fell in love with Gilda, but they wake up with me.

Deceit and lying make me feel vulnerable.

There is something splendid about innocence; but what is bad about it, in turn, is that it cannot protect itself very well and is easily seduced.

I will not be sworn but love may transform me to an oyster; but I'll take my oath on it, till he have made an oyster of me he shall never make me such a fool.

If you make a deal with a fool, don't be surprised when they act foolishly.

We seek and offer ourselves to be gulled.