Blood of Elves (The Witcher, #1)

by Andrzej Sapkowski

When you know about something it stops being a nightmare. When you know how to fight something, it stops being so threatening.

feint

ailment

charred

protruded.

peter

greeve

emboldened

neigh

deem

rattled

dozing

tugging

hindquarters

hare

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.

slopes.

for it is well known that nothing is such thirsty work as the acquisition of knowledge. Although the chancellor’s orders forbade students and tutors to drink and play before dusk, drinking and playing took place around the clock in Oxenfurt, for 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.

her—not too pretty but nonetheless beautiful, girls of whom one dreams at night when those of classical beauty are forgotten after five minutes.

I know you’re almost forty, look almost thirty, think you’re just over twenty and act as though you’re barely ten.

Murder is always murder, regardless of motive or circumstance. Thus those who murder or who prepare to murder are malefactors and criminals, regardless of who they may be: kings, princes, marshals or judges. None who contemplates and commits violence has the right to consider himself better than an ordinary criminal. Because it is in the nature of all violence to lead inevitably to crime.

seeress.

buttresses

You have made a mistake. You mistook the stars reflected in the surface of the lake at night for the heavens.

You mistake the stars reflected in the surface of the lake at night for the heavens.

surreptitiously.

If the ability to make use of experience and draw conclusions decided, we would have forgotten what war is a long time ago. But those whose goal is war have never been held back, nor will be, by experience or analogy.”