Legend (Drenai Saga, #1)

by David Gemmell

All things could happen. My heart could give out, my liver fail. Disease could strike me. A man cannot spend his life worrying about the unexpected. I

‘Of course not. A man should be free to do what he wants to do, as long as it doesn’t hurt others.’

Tough and strong as a bull, maybe, but old. Worn out by time, the enemy that never tired.

‘Nobility. You can fight or die for them, but you will never be one of them. To them we don’t exist as people.’

‘All things that live must die,’ said Vintar. ‘Man alone, it seems, lives all his life in the knowledge of death. And yet there is more to life than merely waiting for death. For life to have meaning, there must be a purpose. A man must pass something on – otherwise he is useless.