Patrick Rothfuss Quotes

You can't love someone unless they love you back.

She never imagined a scenario in which her love was not returned with the same depth of feeling, for to her it was impossible to believe that a love of such magnitude could have stunned only her. The most elementary logic and justice indicated that somewhere in the city he was suffering the same delicious torment.

If a man loved me, I would have talked myself into loving him, and I would have loved him very deeply after a while.

It's one thing to fall in love. It's another to feel someone else fall in love with you, and to feel a responsibility toward that love.

If you do not love me I shall not be loved If I do not love you I shall not love.

It's easy to love people who love you.

What he'd never understood about men in his position, in all the books he'd read and movies he'd seen about them, was clearer to him now: you couldn't keep expecting wholehearted love without, at some point, requiting it. There was no credit to be earned for simply being good.

Your attitude measures up to the two requirements of love. You want to go to bed with her and can't, and you don't know her very well. Ignorance of the other person topped up with deprivation, Jim. You fit the formula all right, and what's more you want to go on fitting it.

If anyone conceives that he is loved by another, and believes that he has given no cause for such love, he will love that other in return.

We cannot, without depraving our minds, endeavour to please a lover or husband, but in proportion as he pleases us.

It is by loving, and not by being loved, that one can come nearest the soul of another; yea, that, where two love, it is the loving of each other, that originates and perfects and assures their blessedness. I knew that love gives to him that loveth, power over any soul beloved, even if that soul know him not, bringing him inwardly close to that spirit; a power that cannot be but for good; for in proportion as selfishness intrudes, the love ceases, and the power which springs therefrom dies. Yet all love will, one day, meet with its return.

The Woman that does not love your Frowns Will never embrace your smiles.

I believe that love cannot be bought except with love.

Love is always mutual and reflective. You may hate me, and if I want to love you, you repulse me. But if I persist, in a month or a year you are bound to love me. It is a well-known psychological phenomenon.

I love you Max,"Fang said..."God, Max I love you so much." I know. I thought. I've always known

You should only fall in love with people who will fall in love with you back.

You would give your life for your little baby. It's not the same when you are in a sexual relationship unless you feel that you are loved as you love.

And you can't love, not fully, unless you are loved in return.

Many brief follies--that is what you call love. And your marriage puts an end to many brief follies, with a single long stupidity.

Love insists the loved loves back

Remember that the most important thing is to try and love other people as much as they love you.

Though you treat me badly, I love you madly.

I want you, I need you, but there ain't no way I'm EVER gonna love you. Now don't be sad, cause two out of three ain't bad.

Sometimes, when you are not getting the love you want, giving makes you think you will.

I love you still, but with your death I succumbed to a kind of infatuation. I convinced myself that what you and I had, so very briefly, was of far vaster and deeper import than it truly was. Of all the weapons we chose to turn upon ourselves, guilt is the sharpest, Silverfox. It can carve one's own past into unrecognizable shapes, false memories leading to beliefs that sow all kinds of obsessions.