About Andrzej Sapkowski: Andrzej Sapkowski is a Polish fantasy writer. He is best known for his best-selling book series The Witcher.
Why didn't you become a sorcerer, Geralt? Weren't you ever attracted by the Art? Be honest.' 'I will. I was.' 'Why, then, didn't you follow the voice of that attraction?' 'I decided it would be wiser to follow the voice of good sense.' 'Meaning?' 'Ye...
A coward,' he declared with dignity, when he'd stopped coughing and had got his breath back, 'dies a hundred times. A brave man dies but once. But Dame Fortune favours the brave and holds the coward in contempt.' — Dandelion
And if someone has friends, and he loses everything in spite of that, it's obvious the friends are to blame. For what they did, or for what they didn't do.
They weren't lying. They firmly believed it all. Which doesn't change the facts.
You've a right to believe that we're governed by Nature and the hidden Force within her. You can think that the gods, including my Melitele, are merely a personification of this power invented for simpletons so they can understand it better, accept i...
The Witcher had a knife to his throat. He was wallowing in a wooden tub, brimfull with soapsuds, his head thrown agains the slippery rim. The bitter taste of soap lingered in his mouth as the knife, blunt as a doorknob, scraped his Adam's apple painf...
People," Geralt turned his head, "like to invent monsters and monstrosities. Then they seem less monstrous themselves. When they get blind-drunk, cheat, steal, beat their wives, starve an old woman, when they kill a trapped fox with an axe or riddle ...
- Svako ima svoj dug - reče Etna. Takav je život, Marija Baring. Dugovi i zaduživanja, obaveze, zahvalnost, plata... Nekome nešto učiniš. Možda i sebi? Jer zaista, plaćamo uvek sebi, ne nekome. Za sve što smo dužni plaćamo sebi. U svakome ...
The sword of destiny has two edges. You are one of them.
And why not?' the merchant replied seriously. 'Why not have doubts? It's nothing but a human and good thing'. 'What?' 'Doubt. Only an evil man, master Geralt, is without it. And no one escapes his destiny'.
Only death can finish the fight, everything else only interrupts the fighting.
- Videla sam... u Sodenu i u Prekorečju... čitava polja... Ležali su svuda po zemlji, kidali su ih vukovi i divlji psi, kljucale ih ptice. Sigurno su tamo bili i gulovi. - Zbog toga i učiš o gulovima, Ciri. Kada nešto poznaješ, to prestaje da ...
- Neznanje - nasmeši se Regis - nije opravdanje za nepromišljeno delanje. Kad se nešto ne zna, kad čovek sumnja, onda je dobro da se posavetuje...
