“Answers were always important, but they were seldom easy.”
Источник: The Slow Regard of Silent Things
Патрик Ротфусс — американский писатель-фантаст. Известность ему принёс опубликованный в 2007 году дебютный роман «Имя ветра», начавшего трилогию «Хроника Убийцы Короля». За свои произведения писатель был удостоен нескольких премий. Wikipedia
“Answers were always important, but they were seldom easy.”
Источник: The Slow Regard of Silent Things
“Power is okay, and stupidity is usually harmless. Power and stupidity together are dangerous".”
Источник: The Name of the Wind
Источник: The Name of the Wind (2007), Chapter 45, “Interlude—Some Tavern Tale” (p. 333)
“It was more exciting when I didn't know I had permission.”
Источник: The Wise Man's Fear
Источник: Chapter 14, “The Name of the Wind” (p. 113)
Контексте: Remember this son, if you forget everything else. A poet is a musician who can’t sing. Words have to find a man’s mind before they can touch his heart. And, some men’s minds are woeful small targets. Music touches their hearts directly, no matter how small or stubborn the mind of the man who listens.
“Cruelty never helped the turning of the world.”
Источник: The Slow Regard of Silent Things
“Isn't that the way of the world? We want the sweet things, but we need the unpleasant ones.”
Источник: The Name of the Wind
“… nothing in the world is harder than convincing someone of an unfamiliar truth.”
Источник: The Wise Man's Fear
“Some things simply were too true to stay. Some merely came to visit for a while.”
Источник: The Slow Regard of Silent Things
Источник: The Name of the Wind (2007), Chapter 7, “Of Beginnings and the Names of Things” (p. 58)
Контексте: I have been called Kvothe the Bloodless, Kvothe the Arcane, and Kvothe Kingkiller. I have earned those names. Bought and paid for them.
But I was brought up as Kvothe. My father once told me it meant “to know.”
I have, of course, been called many other things. Most of them uncouth, although very few were unearned.
I have stolen princesses back from sleeping barrow kings. I burned down the town of Trebon. I have spent the night with Felurian and left with both my sanity and my life. I was expelled from the University at a younger age than most people are allowed in. I tread paths by moonlight that others fear to speak of during day. I have talked to gods, loved women, and written songs that make the minstrels weep.
You may have heard of me.
Источник: The Name of the Wind (2007), Chapter 43, “The Flickering Way” (p. 323)
“My bad luck got tangled up with my bad decisions, and I'm paying for it.”
Источник: The Wise Man's Fear
Источник: The Name of the Wind (2007), Chapter 40, “On the Horns” (p. 290)
Контексте: Any student of mine must be able to defend his ideas against an attack. No matter how you spend your life, your wit will defend you more often than a sword. Keep it sharp!
“There is a great deal of difference between a penis and a heart.”
Вариант: There is a great difference between being fearless and being brave.
Источник: The Wise Man's Fear
“If there is one thing I will not abide it is the folly of a willful pride.”
Источник: The Name of the Wind
“All explicit knowledge is translated knowledge, and all translation is imperfect.”
Источник: The Wise Man's Fear