All quotes

“Ilyena! My love, where are you?”

“Battles interest me.”

“In wars, boy, fools kill other fools for foolish causes.”

“I’ve seen men die because they were sure that what should not happen, would not.”

“Others go away. Narg stay. Narg smart.”

“But hope is like a piece of string when you’re drowning; it just isn’t enough to get you out by itself.”

“No, lad, it no be the treasure that makes for seeing the world. If you find yourself a fistful of gold, or some dead king’s jewels, all well and good, but it be the strangeness you see that pulls you to the next horizon.”

“Take life as it comes. Run when you have to, fight when you must, rest when you can.”

“You humans are very excitable.”

“Blood and bloody ashes!”

“Blood and ashes. Blood and bloody ashes!”

“There is one rule, above all others, for being a man. Whatever comes, face it on your feet.”

“I may be a fool, but I intend to be a live fool.”

“The Light shine on you, Lord Ingtar of House Shinowa, and may you shelter in the palm of the Creator’s hand… The last embrace of the mother welcome you home.”

“Swords aren’t the be-all and end-all, you know. I could do fairly well against either of you, I think, if you had a sword and I had my quarterstaff.”

“Did you have to choose this stable to be murdered in?”

“I do read sometimes.”

“Nothing like a little dance with Trollocs to ready you for sleep. Right, Aviendha?”

“Both of them?… Light! Two! Oh, burn me! He’s the luckiest man in the world or the biggest fool since creation!”

“We’ll drink the wine till the cup is dry, and kiss the girls so they’ll not cry, and toss the dice until we fly to dance with Jak o’ the Shadows.”