Season of Storms Quotes

“A story is a largely false account of largely trivial events, fed to us by historians who are largely idiots.”
― Andrzej Sapkowski, Sezon burz

“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.”
― Andrzej Sapkowski, Season of Storms

“Geralt uniósł kufel. Znał się z wieloma krasnoludami, wiedział, jak się przepija i jak wznosi toasty.
- Za pomyślność sprawy słusznej!
- A na pohybel skurwysynom! - dopowiedział krasnolud, stukając kuflem o jego kufel.”
― Andrzej Sapkowski, Sezon burz

“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.”
― Andrzej Sapkowski, Season of Storms

“I consider gazing into the abyss utter foolishness. There are many things in the world much more worth gazing into.”
― Andrzej Sapkowski, Sezon burz

“Time to ride, Dandelion."
"Where to?"
"Isn't it all the same?"
"Yes, by and large. Let's go".”
― Andrzej Sapkowski, Sezon burz

“May I warn you in advance,” said Geralt, “that my swords are protected by powerful spells. Only witchers can touch them; others will have their vitality drained away. It mainly manifests in the loss of male potency. I’m talking about sexual enfeeblement. Absolute and permanent.”
― Andrzej Sapkowski, Season of Storms

“If people pay for something they believe in it: whatever is paid for becomes real and legal. The more expensive, the better.”
― Andrzej Sapkowski, Season of Storms

“Guard against disappointments, because appearances can deceive. Things that are really as they seem are rare. And a woman is never as she seems.”
― Andrzej Sapkowski, Season of Storms

“Va’esse deireádh aep eigean, va’esse eigh faidh’ar.
(Something ends, something begins.)”
― Andrzej Sapkowski, Sezon burz

“Which was why he knew that declarations about their safety could be classified along with such statements as: “my little dog doesn’t bite,” “my son’s a good boy,” “this stew’s fresh,” “I’ll give you the money back the day after tomorrow at the latest,” “he was only getting something out of my eye,” “the good of the fatherland comes before everything,” and “just answer a few questions and you’re free to go.”
― Andrzej Sapkowski, Season of Storms

“a memory from one’s youth is a lovely thing. It’s not easy to get rid of such a memento. Even if now it’s passé and pompously banal.”
― Andrzej Sapkowski, Season of Storms

“Shall I tell you good Witcher, what good people are ? They're people whom fate hasn't blessed with the chance of profiting from the benefits of being evil”
― Andrzej Sapkowski, Season of Storms

“It was as you said: what you used to be means more to people than what you are.”
― Andrzej Sapkowski, Season of Storms

“Battle not with monsters, lest ye become a monster; for if you gaze into the abyss, the abyss gazes back into you.”
― Andrzej Sapkowski, Season of Storms

“Geralt, who always maintained there was no such thing as an ugly woman, suddenly felt compelled to revise this opinion.”
― Andrzej Sapkowski, Season of Storms

“It’s no wonder you can’t see them,” replied Geralt. “Because they’re invisible. What, haven’t you heard the legends about witcher swords? The uninitiated can’t see them. They appear when I utter a spell. When the need arises. If one arises. Because I’m capable of doing a lot of damage even without them.”
― Andrzej Sapkowski, Season of Storms

“Říká se, že pokrok zahání temnotu. Ale vždycky budou stíny. A vždycky se bude ve stínech skrývat zlo, vždycky v nich budou zuby a drápy, vražda a krev. Vždycky budou tvorové tlukoucí po nocích. A my zaklínači jsme tady proto, abychom je ztloukli.”
― Andrzej Sapkowski, Sezon burz

“The Witcher sighed. He’d happened to observe the effects of the safe functioning teleportals more than once and he’d also helped sorting the remains of people who’d used teleportals. Which was why he knew that declarations about their safety could be classified along with such statements as: “my little dog doesn’t bite,” “my son’s a good boy,” “this stew’s fresh,” “I’ll give you the money back the day after tomorrow at the latest,” “he was only getting something out of my eye,” “the good of the fatherland comes before everything,” and “just answer a few questions and you’re free to go.”
― Andrzej Sapkowski, Season of Storms

“Universal peace among nations is a condition of prosperity, the old man tried to prove, and peace is achieved by arming oneself. The most certain method of preventing wars is to have a terrible weapon as a deterrent: the more terrible it is, the more enduring and certain the peace.”
― Andrzej Sapkowski, Season of Storms

“is not only the execution and the excellence of the craft that determine the quality of a witcher’s sword. As with mysterious elven or gnomish blades, whose secret has been lost, the mysterious power of a witcher’s sword is bound to the hand and skill of the witcher wielding it. And, forsooth, owing to that magic’s mysteries it is greatly potent against the Dark Powers.”
― Andrzej Sapkowski, Season of Storms

“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”
― Andrzej Sapkowski, Season of Storms

“I’m generally in favour of sex on the first date. In the future, I recommend it to you in every respect. It eliminates the necessity of any further rendezvous with the same person, which can be wearisome and time-consuming.”
― Andrzej Sapkowski, Season of Storms

“¿Hace falta decirte, buen brujo, quiénes son las buenas personas? Son aquéllas a las que el destino les ha escatimado las ocasiones de disfrutar de las ventajas de ser malos. O aquéllas que sí han dispuesto de tales ocasiones, pero han sido demasiado estúpidas para aprovecharlas.”
― Andrzej Sapkowski, Sezon burz

“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

“They are both—I had the impression—as slippery as turds in mayonnaise.”
― Andrzej Sapkowski, Season of Storms

“You’re still doing it. You’re still playing at this, as you call it, goetia. You invoke these creatures, summon them from their planes, behind closed doors. With the same tired old story: we’ll control them, master them, force them to be obedient, we’ll set them to work. With the same inevitable justification: we’ll learn their secrets, force them to reveal their mysteries and arcana, and thus we’ll redouble the power of our own magic, we’ll heal and cure, we’ll eliminate illness and natural disasters, we’ll make the world a better place and make people happier. And it inevitably turns out that it’s a lie, that all you care about is power and control.” Tzara, it was obvious, was spoiling to retaliate, but Pinety held him back. “Regarding creatures from behind closed doors,” Geralt continued, “creatures we are calling—for convenience—‘demons,’ you certainly know the same as we witchers do. Which we found out a long time ago, which is written about in witcher registers and chronicles. Demons will never, ever reveal any secrets or arcana to you. They will never let themselves be put to work. They let themselves be invoked and brought to our world for just one reason: they want to kill. Because they enjoy it. And you know that. But you allow them in.” “Perhaps we’ll pass from theory to practice,” said Pinety after a very long silence. “I think something like that has also been written about in witcher registers and chronicles. And it is not moral treatises, but rather practical solutions we expect from you, Witcher.”
― Andrzej Sapkowski, Season of Storms

“„In order to insult someone properly, you need more than overwhelming desire, enthusiasm and fervour. You need technique.”
― Andrzej Sapkowski, Season of Storms

“Fuck that. I’m not staying here for a moment. I prefer sticking close to Geralt.”
― Andrzej Sapkowski, Season of Storms

“A real man, the sorceress knew from experience, is an enthusiastic angler, but only using a fly. He collects military figures, erotic prints and models of sailing ships he builds himself, including the kind in bottles, and there is never a shortage of empty bottles of expensive alcoholic drinks in his home. He is an excellent cook, able to conjure up veritable culinary masterpieces. And well—when all’s said and done—the very sight of him is enough to make one desirous.”
― Andrzej Sapkowski, Season of Storms