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The Slow Regard of Silent Things
Patrick Rothfuss
Top 10 Best Quotes
“It was wise enough to know itself, and brave enough to BE itself, and wild enough to change itself while somehow staying altogether true.”
“To be so lovely and so lost. To be all answerful with all that knowing trapped inside. To be beautiful and broken.”
“This story is for all the slightly broken people out there. I am one of you. You are not alone. You are all beautiful to me.”
“But how awful would that be? How terrible to live surrounded by the stark, sharp, hollowness of things that simply were enough?”
“Some days simply lay on you like stones.”
“I cannot help but wonder how many of us walk through our lives, day after day, feeling slightly broken and alone, surrounded all the time by others who feel exactly the same way.”
“She was a wicked thing sometimes. All full of want. As if the shape of the world depended on her mood. As if she were important.”
“But no. There is a difference between the truth and what we wish were true.”
“She felt the panic rising in her then. She knew. She knew how quickly things could break. You did the things you could. You tended to the world for the world's sake. You hoped you would be safe. But still she knew. It could come crashing down and there was nothing you could do. And yes, she knew she wasn't right. She knew her everything was canted wrong. She knew her head was all unkilter. She knew she wasn't true inside. She knew.”
“Answers were always important, but they were seldom easy.”
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