Quotes from Andrzej Sapkowski

Queen Calanthe wants her to marry someone from Skellige; an alliance with the islanders would mean a lot to us.' 'Why them?' 'Those they're allied with aren't attacked as often as others.' 'A good reason.

A w czasach pogardy ten, kto jest sam, musi zgin??.

A manticore, wyvern, fogler, aeschna, ilyocoris, chimera, leshy, vampire, ghoul, graveir, werewolf, giant scorpion, striga, black annis, kikimora, vypper… so many I've killed.

I need this conversation. They say silence is golden. Maybe it is, although I'm not sure it's worth that much. It has its price certainly; you have to pay for it.

Don't do what you did during supper last time in front of her again.' 'You mean when I threw my fork at that rat?' 'No. I mean when you hit it, even in the dark.

You protect us not only from the evil lurking in the darkness, but also from that which lies within ourselves. It's a shame there are so few of you.

To Milva the Archer.' Zoltan Chivay cleared his throat, saluting with his cup, 'To the Nilfgaardian. To Regis the herbalist, he entertained the travelers in his cottage with moonshine and mandrake, and to Angoulême whom i never knew. May the earth lie lightly on them all. My they have in the beyond, plenty of whatever they were short of on earth. And may their names live forever in songs and tales. Let us drink to them.

You have captured the whole world, man, you are everywhere. Everywhere you introduce what you call modernity, the era of change, what you call progress. But we want neither you nor your progress here. We do not desire the changes you bring. We do not desire anything you bring.

That makes no sense. Who would want to destroy the world? Wars aren't waged to destroy. Wars are waged for two reasons. One is power and the other is money.

He moved, but with pressure from both hands, she forbade him to change position and, with a light but decisive movement of her hips, demanded a response.

For a war is raging, and disinformation is a weapon whose blade must always be kept sharp.

Love,' Fringilla said slowly, 'is like renal colic. Until you have an attack, you can't even imagine what it's like. And when people tell you about it you don't believe them.

every dream, if dreamed too long, turns into a nightmare. And we awake from such dreams screaming.

And a day will come, perhaps, when we shall stop believing at all that something is lurking in the darkness. We shall laugh at such fears. Call them childish. Be ashamed of them! But darkness will always, always exist. And there will always be Evil in the darkness, always be fangs and claws, death and blood in the darkness. And witchers will always be needed.

No,' she repeated. 'I cannot, Geralt. I cannot tell you that. That bird, begotten from the touch of your hand, will tell you. Bird? What is the essence of truth?' 'Truth,' the kestrel said, 'is a shard of ice.

Lentement, en silence, au milieu du parfum de la menthe, de la sauge et des orties, ils descendirent vers la rivière Soupir. En suivant l'escalier. Le long d'un ruisseau qui se nommait Murmure.   ***

There's a grain of truth in every fairy tale

Anche gli errori contano per me», disse Geralt con sforzo. «Non li cancello né dalla mia vita né dalla mia memoria. E non do mai la colpa agli altri.

A crime...' Reynevan cleared his throat, 'is always a crime. Nothing can justify it.' 'Indeed?' 'Nothing. One cannot-' 'Do you know what, Reynevan?' For the first time, Samson manifested something like impatience. 'Go and play chess. That will be to your taste - black here, white there and all the fields square.

Not lying, just embellishing, and there's a difference.

Kings," continued Calanthe, "divide people into two categories—those they order around, and those they buy—because they adhere to the old and banal truth that everyone can be bought. Everyone. It's only a question of price.

For the moment, I am relying on the authority of Cahir aep Ceallach, the only soldier in our company-and Cahir confirmed that winning battles by means of a rapid escape from the battlefield is permissible from the point of view of most military doctrines.

You took advantage of a madman's ravings to strengthen your own authority.

I'm rarely invited to feasts for the pleasure of my company.' 'You're probably not very interesting company, then.