Season of Storms (The Witcher, #8)

by Andrzej Sapkowski

Battle not with monsters, lest ye become a monster; for if you gaze into the abyss, the abyss gazes back into you. Friedrich Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil

I consider gazing into the abyss utter foolishness. There are many things in the world much more worth gazing into. Dandelion, Half a Century of Poetry

He had a strange and inexplicable inclination towards redheads in his nature, and several times that particular colouring had made him do stupid things.

They are both—I had the impression—as slippery as turds in mayonnaise.