- Triss: So that's all life is to you? Monsters and money?
- Geralt of Rivia: It's all it needs to be.
- Triss: You say this is all life is to you, but there is a vortex of fate around all of us, Geralt, growing with each and every one of our choices... drawing our destinies in closer. I feel something out there waits for you. Something more.
- [hearing the striga, Geralt leaves to confront her, leaving Ostrit bound to the bed]
- Lord Ostrit: No... no! Come back here! Please! You'd leave a man bound to die in such indignity?
- Geralt of Rivia: [without turning around] You're not a man.
- Yennefer: A life holding dustpans while you brush off forgotten bones? That's not destiny. It's slow suicide.
- Lord Ostrit: What is it? I've done what you asked! What more can I do?
- Geralt of Rivia: Nothing, unless you can keep a striga out of her crypt until a fucking rooster crows three times!
- Lord Ostrit: [realizing] You're going to have to fight her until dawn.
- Giltine: There is a cost to all creation. A sacrifice that is always made. To be reborn; you will bear no more.
- Geralt of Rivia: I take payment after the job is done and for a third of the price. An apology from my guild to yours.
- Tsoka: And if you can't kill it?
- Geralt of Rivia: [Matter-of-fact] Then I die.
- Artorius: How fares Nilfgaard?
- Vanielle of Brugge: King Fergus is proving to be an effective and... . excitable young king.
- Stregobor: Horny, she means.
- Giltine: Let me be candid. You are a... first draft of what nature intended, yes? Lucky for you, I'm the final artist. Every girl I enchant leaves Aretuza a living work of art. No matter how challenging the clay.
- Geralt of Rivia: His heart's missing along with his liver. Only one creature I know is that picky an eater. A striga.
- Danica: What's her name?
- Geralt of Rivia: When you live as long as I do, all the names start to sound the same.