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  • #1
    Andrzej Sapkowski
    “It’s better to die than to live in the knowledge that you’ve done something that needs forgiveness.”
    Andrzej Sapkowski, Blood of Elves

  • #2
    Andrzej Sapkowski
    “Intolerance and superstition has always been the domain of the more stupid amongst the common folk and, I conjecture, will never be uprooted, for they are as eternal as stupidity itself. There, where mountains tower today, one day there will be seas; there where today seas surge, will one day be deserts. But stupidity will remain stupidity. Nicodemus de Boot, Meditations on life, Happiness and Prosperity”
    Andrzej Sapkowski, Blood of Elves

  • #3
    Andrzej Sapkowski
    “When you know about something it stops being a nightmare. When you know how to fight something, it stops being so threatening.”
    Andrzej Sapkowski, Krew elfów
    tags: fear

  • #4
    Andrzej Sapkowski
    “But do you know when stories stop being stories? The moment someone begins to believe in them.”
    Andrzej Sapkowski, Czas pogardy

  • #5
    Andrzej Sapkowski
    “All around, everywhere you look, is dullness and uncertainty. Even something born of beauty soon leads to boredom and banality, commonplace, the human ritual, the tedious rhythm of life.”
    Andrzej Sapkowski, The Last Wish

  • #6
    Andrzej Sapkowski
    “You love her that much,' she stated, not asking.
    'That much,' he admitted in a whisper after a long moment of silence.”
    Andrzej Sapkowski, Krew elfów
    tags: love

  • #7
    Andrzej Sapkowski
    “No one wants to suffer. But that is the fate of each. And some suffer more. Not necessarily of their own volition. It's not about to enduring the suffering. It's about how you endure it.”
    Andrzej Sapkowski, Wieża Jaskółki

  • #8
    Andrzej Sapkowski
    “every myth, every fable must have some roots. Something lies among those roots.'
    'It does. ... Most often a dream, a wish, a desire, a yearning. Faith that there are no limits to possibility. And occasionally chance.”
    Andrzej Sapkowski, Miecz przeznaczenia

  • #9
    Andrzej Sapkowski
    “It is better to go forward without a goal, than to have a goal and stay in one place, and it is certainly better than to stay in one place without a goal.”
    Andrzej Sapkowski, Wieża Jaskółki

  • #10
    Andrzej Sapkowski
    “always takes action. Wrongly or rightly; that is revealed later. But you should act, be brave, seize life by the scruff of the neck. Believe me, little one, you should only regret inactivity, indecisiveness, hesitation. You shouldn’t regret actions or decisions, even if they occasionally end in sadness and regret.”
    Andrzej Sapkowski, The Time of Contempt

  • #11
    Andrzej Sapkowski
    “...But first appearances are often deceptive. Not everything monstrous looking is evil, and not everything fair is good...and in every fairytale, there is a grain of truth.”
    Andrzej Sapkowski

  • #12
    Andrzej Sapkowski
    “We know little about love. Love is like a pear. A pear is sweet and has a distinct shape. Try to define the shape of a pear. Dandelion,”
    Andrzej Sapkowski, The Time of Contempt

  • #13
    Andrzej Sapkowski
    “We enter the world as a minute part of the life we are given, and from then on we are ever paying off debts. To ourselves. For ourselves. In order for the final reckoning to tally.”
    Andrzej Sapkowski, Baptism of Fire

  • #14
    Andrzej Sapkowski
    “There, where mountains tower today, one day there will be seas; there, where today seas surge, will one day be deserts. But stupidity will remain stupidity.”
    Andrzej Sapkowski, Krew elfów

  • #15
    Obie Williams
    “Redemption is a funny thing. Even if we don’t ask for it—even if we don’t think we want it—sometimes we seek it out. In our words and our actions. Because something drives us to make right the things that we did. It’s what allows us to keep living with ourselves.”
    Obie Williams

  • #16
    Brent Weeks
    “Moments of beauty sustain us through hours of ugliness.”
    Brent Weeks, The Black Prism

  • #17
    Brent Weeks
    “Maybe when you were born on the top of the mountain you could pretend the mountain didn't matter, but those who climbed it and those born at its base who could never climb at all knew differently.”
    Brent Weeks, The Black Prism

  • #18
    Brent Weeks
    “Will covers a multitude of flaws, just as love covers a multitude of sins.”
    Brent Weeks, The Black Prism

  • #19
    Brent Weeks
    “He wasn’t afraid of death, but he was afraid of dying before he accomplished his purposes.”
    Brent Weeks, The Black Prism

  • #20
    Brent Weeks
    “All power is a test.”
    Brent Weeks, The Black Prism

  • #21
    Brent Weeks
    “Better oblivion chosen of his own will than torture forever according to his brother's.”
    Brent Weeks, The Black Prism

  • #22
    Brent Weeks
    “It's better that the innocent should live than that the guilty die”
    Brent Weeks, The Black Prism

  • #23
    Brent Weeks
    “Delusional people tend to believe in what they're doing.”
    Brent Weeks, The Black Prism

  • #24
    Brent Weeks
    “Light cannot be chained.”
    Brent Weeks, The Black Prism

  • #25
    Brent Weeks
    “You have to be a little bad to make history.”
    Brent Weeks, The Black Prism

  • #26
    Brent Weeks
    “When you don't know what to do, do what's right and do what's in front of you. But not necessarily what's right in front of you.”
    Brent Weeks, The Black Prism

  • #27
    Beryl Markham
    “I have learned that if you must leave a place that you have lived in and loved and where all your yesteryears are buried deep, leave it any way except a slow way, leave it the fastest way you can. Never turn back and never believe that an hour you remember is a better hour because it is dead. Passed years seem safe ones, vanquished ones, while the future lives in a cloud, formidable from a distance.”
    Beryl Markham, West with the Night

  • #28
    J.R.R. Tolkien
    “If by my life or death I can protect you, I will. ”
    J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring

  • #29
    J.R.R. Tolkien
    “But it does not seem that I can trust anyone,' said Frodo.
    Sam looked at him unhappily. 'It all depends on what you want,' put in Merry. 'You can trust us to stick with you through thick and thin--to the bitter end. And you can trust us to keep any secret of yours--closer than you keep it yourself. But you cannot trust us to let you face trouble alone, and go off without a word. We are your friends, Frodo.”
    J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring

  • #30
    James Herriot
    “If having a soul means being able to feel love and loyalty and gratitude, then animals are better off than a lot of humans.”
    James Herriot , All Creatures Great and Small



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