‘I like the cold. It’s like pain – it tells you you’re alive.‘
– Druss, to Gilad, Legend
‘I like the cold. It’s like pain – it tells you you’re alive.‘
– Druss, to Gilad, Legend
‘I am trying to make you understand that often – more often than no – we are forced into doing what we fear.‘
– Druss, to Gilad, Legend
‘I have found in my life that there are few actions which are unforgivable. And there are no words said that carry such a penalty.’
– Vintar, to Rek, Legend
‘And what is a man? He is someone who rises when life has knocked him down. He is someone who raises his fist to heaven when a storm has ruined his crop – and plants again. And again. A man remains unbroken by the savage twists of fate.’
– Druss, to the crowd at an inn near Skultik, Legend
‘A man should be free to do what he wants to do, as long as it doesn’t hurt others.’
– Gilad, to Bregan, Legend
‘I wonder at accidents in life. I wonder how many are caused by our own secret desires.‘
– Bowman, to Rek, Legend
‘A man with his eyes on the sky does not see the scorpion below his feet. A man with his eyes on the ground does not see the dragon in the air.‘
– Joachim Sathuli, to himself, Legend
‘The philosophers often talked of lies sitting on the tongue like salted honey. This was true enough. But more often the hidden truth was worse. Far worse. For it settled in the belly and grew to engulf the spirit.‘
– Serbitar, to himself, Legend