Andrzej Sapkowski Quotes

“It's an invention, a fairy tale devoid of any sense, like all the legends in which good spirits and fortune tellers fulfill wishes. Stories like that are made up 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.”
― Andrzej Sapkowski, The Last Wish

“Todo sueño, si se sueña demasiado tiempo, se transforma en pesadilla”
― Andrzej Sapkowski, La dama del lago vol. 1

“Mamá, ¿es que son demonios? ¿Es la persecución salvaje? ¿Monstruos del infierno? ¡Mamá, mamá!
Silencio, silencio, niños. No son demonios, no son diablos... Peor.
Son seres humanos”
― Andrzej Sapkowski, Wieża Jaskółki

“—El mal es el mal, Stregobor —afirmó serio el brujo mientras se levantaba—. Menor, mayor, mediano, es igual, las proporciones son convenidas y las fronteras borrosas. No soy un santo ermitaño, no siempre he obrado bien. Pero si tengo que elegir entre un mal y otro, prefiero no elegir en absoluto”
― Andrzej Sapkowski, The Witcher

“Necio es quien a las visiones de los sueños concede crédito y se adentra en el camino de las quimeras. Mas todo aquel que precie de menos los sueños y en nada los tenga, procede también con poco seso. ¿Pues acaso si los sueños no hubieran de tener sentido alguno, nos habrían dotado los dioses de la capacidad de soñar?”
― Andrzej Sapkowski, La dama del lago vol. 1

“She came to him towards morning. She entered very carefully, moving silently, floating through the chamber like a phantom; the only sound was that of her mantle brushing her naked skin.”
― Andrzej Sapkowski, The Last Wish

“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 nor recognised racial or social divisions. At least, not yet.”
― Andrzej Sapkowski, Blood of Elves

“I manage because I have to. Because I’ve no other way out. Because I’ve overcome the vanity and pride of being different. I’ve understood that they are a pitiful defence against being different. Because I’ve understood that the sun shines differently when something changes, but I’m not the axis of those changes. The sun shines differently, but it will continue to shine, and jumping at it with a hoe isn’t going to do anything. We’ve got to accept facts, elf. That’s what we’ve got to learn.”
― Andrzej Sapkowski, The Last Wish

“I’m Geralt of Rivia. A witcher.”
― Andrzej Sapkowski, The Last Wish

“Not only is it the first one I’ve seen up close but it’s none other than the famous White Wolf. I’ve heard about you.”
― Andrzej Sapkowski, The Last Wish

“Todos los brujos llevan dos espadas. Algunos malintencionados afirman que la de plata es para los monstruos y la de acero para los seres humanos. Eso es falso, por supuesto. Hay monstruos a los que sólo se puede dominar con la espada de plata, pero los hay también para los que el acero es mortal.”
― Andrzej Sapkowski, The Last Wish