Taylor

“Are all stories about the Law of Surprise myths?’

‘Yes. It’s hard to call an accident destiny.’

‘But you witchers do not stop searching?’

‘No, we don’t. But it’s senseless. Nothing has any point.”
― Andrzej Sapkowski, Sword of Destiny

“It would help if I were able to feel guilty. But the end of innocence is also the end of guilt.”
― James Baldwin, Giovanni’s Room

“[N]o one told me I was carrying the Beginning of the World.
The gibbous. The loom.”
― Sylvia Linsteadt, Our Lady of the Dark Country

“I visited towns and fortresses. I looked for proclamations nailed to posts at the crossroads. I looked for the words ‘Witcher urgently needed.’ And then there’d be a sacred site, a dungeon, necropolis or ruins, forest ravine or grotto hidden in the mountains, full of bones and stinking carcasses. Some creature which lived to kill, out of hunger, for pleasure, or invoked by some sick will. A manticore, wyvern, fogler, aeschna, ilyocoris, chimera, leshy, vampire, ghoul, graveir, werewolf, giant scorpion, striga, black annis, kikimora, vypper… so many I’ve killed. There’d be a dance in the dark and a slash of the sword, and fear and distaste in the eyes of my employer afterward.”
― Andrzej Sapkowski, The Last Wish