Shawn

“A crime...' Reynevan cleared his throat, 'is always a crime. Nothing can justify it.'
'Indeed?'
'Nothing. One cannot-'
'Do you know what, Reynevan?' For the first time, Samson manifested something like impatience. 'Go and play chess. That will be to your taste - black here, white there and all the fields square.”
― Andrzej Sapkowski, Narrenturm

“With the Inquisition? But what will they accuse us of?'
'The problem isn't what they accuse us of.' Scharley's voice was extremely gloomy. 'The problem is what we confess to.”
― Andrzej Sapkowski, Narrenturm

“My answer would just be a
word. A word which doesn’t express a feeling, doesn’t express an
emotion, because I’m bereft of them. A word which would be nothing
but the sound made when you strike a cold, empty skull.”
― Andrzej Sapkowski, Sword of Destiny

“Don’t shout, Yen, don’t be aggressive. And don’t drag up that story
from Vengerberg, we swore not to go back to it, after all. I don’t bear a
grudge against you, Yen, I’m not reproaching you, am I? I know you
can’t be judged by ordinary standards. And the fact that I’m saddened…
the fact that I know I’m losing you… is cellular memory. The atavistic
remnants of feelings in a mutant purged of emotion—”
― Andrzej Sapkowski, Sword of Destiny