Quotes from Andrzej Sapkowski

he who fights with the sword dies by the sword.

We were all just as brave,' finished Julia Abatemarco. 'Neither of the sides had the strength to be braver. But we … We managed to be brave for a minute longer.

But first appearances are often deceptive. Not everything monstrous looking is evil, and not everything fair is good...and in every fairytale, there is a grain of truth.

It's as though a cabbage tried to investigate the causes and effects of its existence

You've taken everything from me..." "No," she interrupted. "Me, I take nothing. I only take by the hand. So that no-one must be alone and lost in the fog... Goodbye, Gerald of Rivia. Some other day.

Ludzie lubi? wymy?la? potwory i potworno?ci. Sami sobie wydaj? si? wtedy mniej potworni.

Ha - zaciekawiÅ' siÄ™ Jaskier, który wÅ'aÅ›nie zbli?yÅ' siÄ™ do nich. - WiÄ™c to sÄ… sÅ'ynne tajne runy krasnoludów? Co gÅ'osi ten napis? - "Na pohybel skurwysynom!

We enter the world as a minute part of the life we are given, and from then on we are ever paying off debts. To ourselves. For ourselves. In order for the final reckoning to tally.

It may turn out,' said the white-haired man a moment later, 'that their comrades or cronies may ask what befell these evil men. Tell them the Wolf bit them. The White Wolf. And add that they should keep glancing over their shoulders. One day they'll look back and see the Wolf.' When

Anxiety is never irrational, Geralt thought to himself. Aside from psychological disturbances. It was one of the first things novice witchers were taught. It's good to feel fear. If you feel fear it means there's something to be feared, so be vigilant. Fear doesn't have to be overcome. Just don't yield to it. And you can learn from it.

They didn't teach me how to tend wounds,' she said bitterly. 'They taught me how to kill, telling me that's how I could save people. It was one big lie, Little Horse. They deceived me.

it is well known that if there is anything that makes men thirstier than the acquisition of knowledge it is the full or partial prohibition of drinking.

And now he was glowing with happiness, pride and a sense of importance, like every liar when his lies accidentally turn out to be true.

I lose a great deal of my charm when one gets to know me better.

Nothing. I've had a bit to drink and I'm philosophizing. I'm looking for general truths. And I've found one: lesser evils exist, but we can't choose them. Only True Evil can force us to such a choice. Whether we like it or not.

A baptism of fire, the Witcher thought, furiously striking and parrying blows. I was meant to pass through fire for Ciri. And I'm passing through fire in a battle which is of no interest to me at all. Which I don't understand in any way. The fire that was meant to purify me is just scorching my hair and face.

Let them call me a traitor and a coward. Because I, Yarpen Zigrin, coward, traitor and renegade, state that we should not kill each other. I state that we ought to live. Live in such a way that we don't, later, have to ask anyone for forgiveness.

In order to become a witcher, you have to be born in the shadow of destiny, and very few are born like that.

And you? Don't you have dreams now?' 'I do,' he said bitterly. 'But seldom since we crossed the Yaruga. And I remember nothing after waking. Something has ended in me, Cahir. Something has burned out. Something has ruptured in me . . .' 'Never mind, Geralt. I shall dream for both of us.

I consider gazing into the abyss utter foolishness. There are many things in the world much more worth gazing into.

Dandelion! You're asleep in the saddle!' 'I'm not asleep. I'm thinking creatively!

Lilit's path was to be prepared by 'sixty women wearing gold crowns, who would fill the river valleys with blood.'" "Nonsense," said the witcher. "And what's more, it doesn't rhyme. All decent predictions rhyme.

And so it's an eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth? Blood for blood? And for that blood, more blood? A sea of blood? Do you want to drown the world in blood? O naive, damaged girl! Is that how you mean to fight evil, little witcher?

We be decent thieves, not some politicals.