Season of Storms

It was one of the first things novice witchers were taught. It’s good to feel fear. If you feel fear it means there’s something to be feared, so be vigilant. Fear doesn’t have to be overcome. Just don’t yield to it. And you can learn from it.

Normality, meanwhile, is the same as banality, and banality is cheap.

shall reveal one secret to you. About witcher swords. It’s poppycock that they have some kind of secret power. And that they are supposedly wonderful weapons. That there are no better ones. It’s all fiction, invented for the sake of appearances. I know this from a quite certain source.

Dandelion,

Guard against disappointments, because appearances can deceive. Things that are really as they seem are rare. And a woman is never as she seems.

Primo, I rejected their sexual advances. They didn’t want to understand that ‘no’ means ‘no.’ Secundo, I like beating people up. Tertio, it’s a falsehood.

begun to suffer the agony of choice.

Geralt, who always maintained there was no such thing as an ugly woman, suddenly felt compelled to revise this opinion.

All the world’s guardhouses stank of mould, sweat, leather and urine, as well as iron and the grease used to preserve it.