“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, ...”

“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...”

“When you become a father, it changes you." Snorri spoke towards the fires glow. "You see the world in new ways. Those who are not changed were not properly men to begin with.”

“To make love is to give birth to death.”

“. . .the young man who rings the bell at the brothel is unconsciously looking for God.”

“My best advice is never to address any woman as Madam unless she holds a high position in government or you happen to find yourself in a brothel speaking to its owner.”

“Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don't know how to replenish its source. It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds; it dies of weariness, of wi...”

“My dear,Find what you love and let it kill you.Let it drain you of your all. Let it cling onto your back and weigh you down into eventual nothingness.Let it kill you and let it devour your remains....”

“If you gave someone your heart and they died, did they take it with them? Did you spend the rest of forever with a hole inside you that couldn't be filled?”

“A lady's imagination is very rapid; it jumps from admiration to love, from love to matrimony in a moment.”

“I've always said that idleness dulls the spirit. We have to keep the brain busy, or at least the hands if we don't have a brain.”

“If your workplace was somehow transplanted into the jungle and everyone was forced to survive at a very primitive level, it's safe to say that eventually your boss would rape you.”