Blood Of Elves Quotes
"Their attackers had surrounded them unexpectedly, shattering the barricades which had been held by no more than a few soldiers."
"Fear. Overpowering, paralysing, choking fear."
"The only thing which exists, which counts, which still has any meaning, is fear."
"Eyes blaze through the slit in the huge winged helmet."
"You have to rest. We’ve still a long way ahead of us."
"Songs and ballads never end, because poetry is eternal and immortal, it knows no beginning, it knows no end."
"Because it was Geralt of Rivia, the White Wolf, the Witcher, who said it."
"She is a student, not a major domo. Welcoming guests, even such pleasant ones as yourself, is not one of her duties."
"A child like that should not be told such things. A child like that should not be terrified by the prospect that they too may one day hear words describing it like those which were screamed by the fanatics who marched on Kaer Morhen long ago."
"You can't stop a soldier from being frightened but you can give him motivation to help him overcome that fear."
"I am afraid for her. Another trance could end in mental illness."
"You never know what you’re fighting. You never know what’s happening behind you."
"You are not learning in order to kill and be killed. You are not learning to kill out of fear and hatred, but in order to save lives."
"If Nilfgaardian parents pay me, I’ll defend Nilfgaardian children."
"I’m not complaining about fate, Triss – this is plain, cold calculation."
"The fact that someone can experience normal love, normal hatred, normal fear, pain and regret, normal joy and normal sadness."
"I’ll stand with you! Just wait and see, I’ll stand with you!"
"The world is falling to ruins, and we can watch it happen and do nothing. Or we can counteract it."
"You are not leaving here alone," she whispered. "I won’t let you be alone. Not right now."
"No one’s going to take the sword away from me!" she shouted. "No one! Not even you!"
"I’m allergic!" she sobbed with helpless exasperation and despairing anger. "I always have been! I can’t tolerate elixirs!"
"Come inside," he said, "your Enchantress is going to fall out of her saddle any minute now."
"Do you feel all right? No… unusual sensations?"
"We are at war here, witcher. A band of Scoia’tael is doing the rounds and there was a skirmish yesterday."
"No, sir, we must not pussyfoot around them. It’s either them or us. There’s no third way!"
"I am asking you what’s in them, so answer me!"
"What have you done to us?" he asked bitterly. "What have you done to us? What have you made of us?"
"Farewell," whispered Ciri. "Farewell, Rose of Shaerrawedd. Farewell and…"
"It’s dangerous to lean out like that. There might be an aeschna in the vicinity."
"I am best at the Elder Speech, I can also write Elder Runes."
"Let’s not commit a mistake," said Vizimir, King of Redania, "because a mistake could cost us too much."
"I have been told that witchers possess considerable knowledge about some rare species."
"Nilfgaard is at the Yaruga and I hear: ‘So, let them stay there’."
"Let us not make the same mistake as the elves!"
"I’m too old for this sort of thing… Far, far too old…"
"Let us show them who is really king here. Let us shake the walls of this great castle plunged into a winter torpor!"
"You mistake the stars reflected in the surface of the lake at night for the heavens."
"If there’s going to be a war, then it’ll most certainly be with Nilfgaard."
"I know very well. And where is this Nilfgaard?"
"You’re standing before necessity and choice."
"I am warning you. Whoever dares harm Ciri will end up like those four lying there."
"Your destiny is in her hands, witcher. You placed it in those hands yourself."
"You thought you were taking a child, a little girl, into your care. You were wrong."
"Magic is no joke, it isn’t an occupation for young ladies made of porcelain, for dolls blown from thin glass."
"I don’t know what you’re talking about," she said impatiently. "Nor do you, obviously."
"Despite running briskly, she did not pant but breathed evenly and calmly."
"If your fate had turned out differently… you'd have long been the wife of some duke or prince."
"But those whose goal is war have never been held back, nor will be, by experience or analogy."
"Magic is Chaos, Art and Science. It is a curse, a blessing and progress."
"Those who believe that magic is art are also right."
"Magic is a key capable of opening the forbidden door."
"You are handling a force of nature, show Nature some respect."
"In spite of what she had told Jarre, the girl had no idea where and why they were leaving."