Arnstein

“We forgot that we are not the only ones in this world, that the whole of creation does not revolve around us. Like stupid, fat, lazy minnows in a slimy pond we chose not to accept the existence of pike. We allowed our world, like the pond, to become slimy, boggy and sluggish. Look around you – there is crime and sin everywhere, greed, the pursuit of profit, quarrels and disagreements are rife. Our traditions are disappearing, respect for our values is fading. Instead of living according to Nature we have begun to destroy it.”
― Andrzej Sapkowski, Blood of Elves

“Vain digressions, he decided. Perhaps, who knows, maybe. What has happened has happened, nothing can change it now. And there’s no sense going on about it.”
― Andrzej Sapkowski, Season of Storms

“The dwarf slowly turned his head, looked at him. At Geralt. At Ciri. At them all. The humans.

'What have you done to us?' he asked bitterly. 'What have you done to us? What have you made of us?'

No one answered him.

The eyes of the long-legged elf were glassy and dull. Her contorted lips were frozen in a soundless cry.

Geralt put his arms around Ciri. Slowly, he unpinned the white rose, spattered with dark stains, from her jerkin and, without a word, threw it on the Squirrel’s body.

'Farewell,' whispered Ciri. 'Farewell, Rose of Shaerrawedd. Farewell and…'

'And forgive us,' added the witcher.”
― Andrzej Sapkowski, Blood of Elves

“The conclusions arrived at by experts with such difficulty will be shown by other, still greater, experts to be illusory.”
― Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, In the First Circle