Top 300 Andrzej Sapkowski Quotes (2024 Update)
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201. “He would not even have declined had she suggested they walked into hell to drink a cup of boiling tar with some fiery demons.”

— Andrzej Sapkowski

202. “Do you know what your problem is, Geralt? You think you’re different. You flaunt your otherness, what you consider abnormal. You aggressively impose that abnormality on others, not understanding that for people who think clear-headedly you’re the most normal man under the sun, and they all wish that everybody was so normal.”

— Andrzej Sapkowski

203. “They were caring and tender and, although neither quite knew what caring and tenderness were, they succeeded because they very much wanted to. And they were in no hurry whatsoever. The whole world had ceased to exist for a brief moment, but to them, it seemed like a whole eternity.”

— Andrzej Sapkowski

204. “Doubts. Only evil, sir, never has any.”

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205. “I, little Ciri, do not recognise collective responsibility, I do not feel the need to expiate the events which took place half a century before my birth.”

— Andrzej Sapkowski

206. “It is easy to let go of the string and think: This isn’t me, it’s the arrow. My hands do not bear the blood of this boy, it’s the arrow that killed him, not me. But the arrow does not dream at night.”

— Andrzej Sapkowski

207. “It’s time you gave up your secrets, Geralt,’ Zoltan grimaced. ‘Dandelion hasn’t told us much we didn’t know. You can’t help it if you’re a walking legend. They re-enact stories of your adventures in puppet theatres. Like the story about you and an enchantress by the name of Guinevere.’ ‘Yennefer,’ Regis corrected in hushed tones. ‘I saw that one. It was the story of a hunt for a genie, if my memory serves me correctly.”

— Andrzej Sapkowski

208. “They didn’t teach me how to tend wounds,’ she said bitterly. ‘They taught me how to kill, telling me that’s how I could save people. It was one big lie, Little Horse. They deceived me.”

— Andrzej Sapkowski

209. “Pump up your bagpipes and delight our ears with decent martial music. With your permission, noble Calanthe!” “Oh mother of mine,” whispered the queen to Geralt, raising her eyes to the vault for a moment in silent resignation. But she nodded her permission, smiling openly and kindly.”

— Andrzej Sapkowski

210. “La verdad es una esquirla de hielo.”

— Andrzej Sapkowski

211. “I’ve stopped being a witcher. I’ve learned that now. On Thanedd, in the Tower of the Seagull. In Brokilon. On the bridge on the Yaruga. In the cave beneath Gorgon. And here, in Myrkvid Forest. No, I’m not a witcher now. So I’ll have to learn to manage without my medallion.”

— Andrzej Sapkowski

212. “The exception, as ever, was the children. Freed from the constraints of silence which had been enforced during the bard’s performance, the children dashed into the woods with wild cries, and enthusiastically immersed themselves in a game whose rules were incomprehensible to all those who had bidden farewell to the happy years of childhood. Children of elves, dwarves, halflings, gnomes, half-elves, quarter-elves and toddlers of mysterious provenance neither knew.”

— Andrzej Sapkowski

213. “The blades were positioned at an angle–and as they entered his body, the arrow rotated and bored in like a screw, mutilating the tissue, cutting through blood vessels and shattering bone. Aplegatt lurched forward onto his horse’s neck and slid to the ground, limp as a sack of wool. The sand on the road was hot, heated up so much by the sun that it was painful to the touch. The messenger didn’t feel it. He died at once.”

— Andrzej Sapkowski

214. “If people pay for something they believe in it: whatever is paid for becomes real and legal. The more expensive, the better.”

— Andrzej Sapkowski

215. “Troops! Call out the troops!’ shouted another miner, shooing away children who–as is the immemorial custom of all the world’s children–had appeared from nowhere to watch and get in the way.”

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216. “You’re talking nonsense while making wise and meaningful faces.”

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217. “Why have you gone so red, crimson as a poppy? You wanted to know, didn’t you? So you’ve got the honest truth and faithful history of a world where he who shatters the skulls of others most efficiently and swells women’s bellies fastest, reigns. And it’s just as hard to compete with you people in murdering as it is in screwing –.”

— Andrzej Sapkowski

218. “Even when something bad happens to you, you have to go straight back to that piece of equipment or you get frightened.”

— Andrzej Sapkowski

219. “Queen Calanthe wants her to marry someone from Skellige; an alliance with the islanders would mean a lot to us.’ ‘Why them?’ ‘Those they’re allied with aren’t attacked as often as others.’ ‘A good reason.”

— Andrzej Sapkowski

220. “It is you humans who hate anything that differs from you, be it only by the shape of its ears. That’s why you took our land from us, drove us from our homes, forced us into the savage mountains.”

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221. “The world is huge,” repeated the elf. “That’s true, human. But you have changed this world. At first, you used force to change it. You treated it as you treat anything that falls into your hands. Now it looks as if the world has started to fit in with you. It’s given way to you. It’s given in.” Geralt didn’t reply.”

— Andrzej Sapkowski

222. “But he suddenly knew the truth. He knew it. He knew what she used to be. What she remembered, what she couldn’t forget, what she lived with. Who she really was before she had become a sorceress.”

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223. “Not lying, just embellishing, and there’s a difference.”

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224. “Tales began to circulate around Ebbing and Geso. About the Wild Hunt. About the Three Spectral Riders.”

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225. “That makes no sense. Who would want to destroy the world? Wars aren’t waged to destroy. Wars are waged for two reasons. One is power and the other is money.”

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226. “Night and day the streets resounded with music, song, and the clinking of chalices and tankards, for it is well known that nothing is such thirsty work as the acquisition of knowledge.”

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227. “Geralt had discovered, many times, that all mechanisms are unreliable. They only worked when they ought not to work, and vice versa.”

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228. “I consider waging war against other races idiocy.”

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229. “What about me?’ Dandelion asked. ‘What should I do?’ ‘The same as usual. Nothing.”

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230. “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

231. “You have captured the whole world, man, you are everywhere. Everywhere you introduce what you call modernity, the era of change, what you call progress. But we want neither you nor your progress here. We do not desire the changes you bring. We do not desire anything you bring.”

— Andrzej Sapkowski

232. “I wonder what else you dreamed about. That you’re a frog? Calm down. You aren’t. Did you dream that you’re a chump? Well, that dream might have been prophetic.”

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233. “The mind’s properties, the character, feelings, thoughts. The soul. Which would confirm what most sorcerers and all priests would deny. That the soul is also matter.’ ‘Blasphemy!”

— Andrzej Sapkowski

234. “I can’t bear the pointlessness of what we’re doing. Because it is pointless. It’s one great, enormous pointless pit of pointlessness.”

— Andrzej Sapkowski

235. “Geralt’s expression changed a little, in what was probably supposed to be a smile.”

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236. “She was warm and smelt like a wet sparrow.”

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237. “Dandelion! You’re asleep in the saddle!’ ‘I’m not asleep. I’m thinking creatively!”

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238. “Fifty for a werewolf. That was plenty, for the work had been easy. The werewolf hadn’t even fought back. Driven into a cave from which there was no escape, it had knelt down and waited for the sword to fall. The Witcher had felt sorry for it. But he needed the money.”

— Andrzej Sapkowski

239. “The changeability of the world is, as it happens, the only thesis in this treatise you can agree with.”

— Andrzej Sapkowski

240. “Aridea quite often turned to the Mirror – ’ ‘With the usual question, I take it,’ interrupted Geralt. ‘“Who is the fairest of them all?” I know; all Nehalenia’s Mirrors are either polite or broken.”

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241. “The voivode with the hard-to-remember name, who must have heard something about the affairs and problems of Fourhorn, politely asked whether the mares were foaling well. Gerald answered yes, much better than the stallions. He wasn’t sure if the joke had been well taken, but the voivode didn’t ask any more questions.”

— Andrzej Sapkowski

242. “All of my horses are called Roach.”

— Andrzej Sapkowski

243. “I’m beside myself with joy. I was worried you were going to ask me another one of your unequal grand questions.’ ‘Why not? I like your unequal grand answers!”

— Andrzej Sapkowski

244. “Since when did you know anything about mimicking bird calls, Zoltan?’ ‘That’s the whole point. If you hear a strange, unrecognisable sound, you’ll know it’s me.”

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245. “It’s fitting to learn things you don’t know. Anyone who doesn’t know other languages is handicapped.”

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246. “Stories like that are made by poor simpletons, who can’t even dream of fulfilling their wishes and desires themselves. I’m pleased you’re not one of them, Geralt of Rivia. It makes you closer in spirit to me. If I want something, I don’t dream of it – I act. And I always get what I want. – Yennefer.”

— Andrzej Sapkowski

247. “At least here some people have gathered with whom I have something to talk about. People who don’t break off their conversations when I approach. People who, though they may not like me, say it to my face, and don’t throw stones from behind a fence. I’m riding with them for the same reason I rode with you to the log drivers’ inn. Because it’s all the same to me. I don’t have a goal to head towards. I don’t have a destination at the end of the road.”

— Andrzej Sapkowski

248. “Ai confundat cerul cu stelele reflectate noaptea pe suprafata unui lac.”

— Andrzej Sapkowski

249. “I prefer to look after others. It turns out better in the long run.”

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250. “Because how am I to know, dammit? When I cut my finger, I bleed. I bleed every month, too. I get belly-ache when I overeat, and a hangover when I get drunk. When I’m happy I sing and I swear when I’m sad. When I hate someone I kill them and when – But enough of this! Your answer, witcher.”

— Andrzej Sapkowski