“A warrior fears the battle he missed. More than any fight he can make his own, he fears the fight thats gone, that ended without him, that no feat of arms can change.”

“Cold has its own taste. It tastes of a bitten tongue. It coils around you, a living thing, a beast that means to kill you, not with wrath, not with tooth nor claw, but with the mercy of surrender, ...”

“No man should go to Valhalla with brothel rash.”

“Death was kind. He drew a sharp breath. But no father should have to give such a kindness to his child.”

“Let's go to Valhalla with the sun on our faces.”

“And thats how it is in this world, boy. Start a tale, just a little tale that should fade and dietake your eye off it for just a moment and when you turn back its grown big enough to grab you up in...”

“Each of us is born with a box of matches inside us but we can't strike them all by ourselves”

“Love, like fire, goes out without fuel.”

“She's mad, but she's magic. There's no lie in her fire.”

“It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.”

“If I am going to be drownedif I am going to be drownedif I am going to be drowned, why, in the name of the seven mad gods who rule the sea, was I allowed to come thus far and contemplate sand and t...”

“I'm an Earth ecstatic, and my creed is simple: All life is sacred, life loves life, and we are capable of improving our behavior toward one another. As basic as that is, for me it's also tonic and ...”