Season of Storms (The Witcher, #6)

by Andrzej Sapkowski

Anxiety is never irrational, Geralt thought to himself. Aside from psychological disturbances. It was one of the first things novice witchers were taught. It’s good to feel fear. If you feel fear it means there’s something to be feared, so be vigilant. Fear doesn’t have to be overcome. Just don’t yield to it. And you can learn from it.

A story is a largely false account, of largely trivial events, fed to us by historians who are largely idiots”,’