Quotes from Andrzej Sapkowski

StÃ…â"¢ezte se roz?arování, neb dojmy klamou. Takovými, jakými se zdají být, jsou vÄ›ci jen zÃ…â"¢ídkakdy. A ženy nikdy.

Do you understand what this neutrality is, which stirs you so? To be neutral does not mean to be indifferent or insensitive. You don't have to kill your feelings. It's enough to kill hatred within yourself. Do you understand?

Entre los príncipes, especialmente entre los más jóvenes, aquéllos que no tenían nada que hacer, se impuso la estúpida moda de liberar bellezas prisioneras. La mayor parte, por suerte, se rompió la nuca.

I know you're almost forty, look almost thirty, think you're just over twenty and act as though you're barely ten. And being aware of this, I usually furnish you with precise instructions.

You protect us not only from the evil lurking in the darkness, but also from that which lies within ourselves.

He can't hear you. His ears are full of shit

Because I've overcome the vanity and pride of being different, I've understood that they are a pitiful defense against being different. Because I've understood that the sun shines differently when something changes.

Elves live a long time, Ciri. By our time scale they are almost eternal. They thought humans were something that would pass, like a drought, like a heavy winter, or a plague of locusts, after which comes rain, spring, a new harvest. They wanted to sit it out. Survive.

don't flap your ears and nothing horrible will fall into them.

Nessuno vuole soffrire. Eppure è il destino di ognuno. E alcuni soffrono più degli altri. Non necessariamente per scelta. La questione non sta nel sopportare il dolore. La questione sta nel come lo si sopporta

Remember,' she repeated, 'magic is Chaos, Art and Science. It is a curse, a blessing and progress. It all depends on who uses magic, how they use it, and to what purpose.

This is what the Law of Surprise states. It is the child's, not the parent's, consent which confirms the oath, which proves that the child was born under the shadow of destiny.

Doch wie sich der Vampir Regis ausdrückte, lieber ohne Ziel vorwärts gehen, als ohne Ziel auf der Stelle stehenbleiben, und allemal besser, als sich ohne Ziel zurückzuziehen.

Sword can always be drawn again, faster than you imagine.

I'm not certain,' Regis said, smiling through pursed lips, 'that you're treating the right illness. I'd also like to remind you that one should treat causes, not symptoms.

The witcher smiled faintly but quite nastily. "If I understand correctly," he said, "I'm to fight the duel because, if I refuse, I'll be hanged. If I fight, I'm to allow my opponent to injure me because if I wound him, I'll be put to the rack. What charming alternatives. Maybe I should save you the bother? I'll thump my head against the pine tree and render myself helpless. Will that grant you satisfaction?" "Don't

Tiga är guld, sägs det. Kanske det. Vet inte om det är så mycket värt. I alla fall har det sitt pris. Det kostar att tiga.

Don't you think"—he smiled—"that my lack of faith makes such a trance pointless?" "No, I don't. And do you know why?" "No." Nenneke leaned over and looked him in the eyes with a strange smile on her pale lips. "Because it would be the first proof I've ever heard of that a lack of faith has any kind of power at all.

as deformed as a grotesque potato

But you should act, be brave, seize life by the scruff of the neck. Believe me, little one, you should only regret inactivity, indecisiveness, hesitation. You shouldn't regret actions or decisions, even if they occasionally end in sadness and regret. -Margarita / The Time of Contempt

Shut up, Dandelion,' the Witcher said. 'I have no intention of so doing. In fact I plan to compose the Ballad of the Two Tits. Please don't interfere.' 'Dandelion,' Dorregaray sniffed through his bloody nose. 'Be serious.' 'I am being bloody serious.

In this rotten world, Zoltan Chivay, goodness, honesty and integrity become deeply engraved in the memory.' 'That

In order to become a witcher, you have to be born in the shadow of destiny, and very few are born like that. That's why there are so few of us. We're growing old, dying, without anyone to pass our knowledge, our gifts, on to. We lack successors. And this world is full of Evil which waits for the day none of us are left.

It is better to go forward without an aim than loiter without an aim, and with surety much better than to retreat without an aim.