Blood of Elves - Andrzej Sapkowski

A woman accentuates her beauty for her own self-esteem

To be neutral does not mean to be indifferent or insensitive. You don't have to kill your feelings. It's enough to kill hatred within yourself.

You’ve mistaken the stars reflected on the surface of the lake at night for the heavens.

When you know about something it stops being a nightmare. When you know how to fight something, it stops being so threatening.

If the ability to make use of experience and draw conclusions decided, we would have forgotten what war is a long time ago. But those whose goal is war have never been held back, nor will be, by experience or analogy.

I know you’re almost forty, look almost thirty, think you’re just over twenty and act as though you’re barely ten.