Ciri quotes from The Witcher

Ciri

Those people you killed, you didn't mean to.

Sometimes, I think I'm still just a man. But mostly, I know what I really am.

Ciri

I watched my entire home burn to the ground at the hands of another. My family trapped inside. You don't seem like a monster to me.

I appreciate that, my dear. Monsters are more than just horrid looks and claws and teeth. Monsters are born of deeds done. Unforgivable ones.

Geralt

Fear is an illness. If you catch it and leave it untreated, it can consume you.

Ciri

How do you treat it?

Geralt

You face it. Facing your fear is not easy. But I am here for you. I won't let anything happen to you.

Ciri

Are you a monster?

Are you a monster because you are different?

Ciri

Monsters do bad things to people.

Humans do bad things to everybody.

Geralt

Training is dangerous.

Ciri

So is the man with the black winged helmet.

Geralt

(Pauses) And you want to kill him?

Ciri

Yes.

Geralt

Why?

Ciri

I hate him.

Geralt

This is important. We don't kill out of fear. We kill to save lives. Do you understand?

(Walks in Ciri's room) What are you doing? I know you know how dangerous this is.

Ciri

I'm not afraid.

Have you thought about Geralt? What he'd say? Why do you want this so badly Ciri?

Ciri

Because I'm sick of feeling lost. Everything I was told my whole life was a lie. And the people I love most in this world were taken from me before I could find the truth.

What you're doing won't change any of that.

Ciri

But it might help me find a new truth.

Geralt

What are you doing?

Ciri

Geralt.

She's meant to be. To rebuild us.

Geralt

She is not. She's a girl, all you'll do is poison her.

She can do this.

Ciri

I made him do it, Geralt. (Geralt unchains Ciri) Stop, I wanted him to try. Geralt, stop!

Geralt

Did you not think of the consequences? What if you were killed?

Ciri

Stop. Stop! All I ever think about are consequences. No matter how hard I train, no matter what I do, it'll never be enough.

Geralt

You are already enough, Cirilla. You are extraordinary.

Ciri

I want to be like you, Geralt. I want to be indifferent to the past, to the lies, to the things I've done. Please. Let me have that.

Geralt

That is not how it works. Neither you nor I can just forget who we are. We can't kill our feelings. Our best chance, is to kill the hatred that we may hold onto and move on.

Ciri

Everytime I think I move forward, there's this force bringing me back into darkness. I'm just tired, Geralt.

Geralt

I'm tired too, Ciri. But what of it? Life goes on. Us three, we'll help each other. What is destined cannot be avoided.

Yennefer

And it shouldn't be.

Ciri

(Enters room finely dressed) What do you think?

Geralt

(Sighing) I think you need to hide your hair and mask your eyes.

Ciri

(Hurt) Would it kill you to say, "You look lovely"? (Storms away)

Geralt

Ciri. I knew this was a bad idea.

Geralt

(Speechless and pauses) You look lovely.

Yennefer

Remember I said we need to keep a low profile? That was not that.

Ciri

I cannot control my visions.

Yennefer

You can control who you blab to.

Ciri

Stop hauling me like I'm a mewling brat! I saw his death and I need to go back there.

Yennefer

What if his death prevented a greater harm? What would the consequences be then, my ugly one?

Ciri

I don't know.

Yennefer

I don't know either. But changing destiny is a weighty business.

Ciri

Might as well talk about it. I know you're angry.

Yennefer

I'm not angry. I'm disappointed. I did say we needed to avoid unwanted attention.

Ciri

I know.

Yennefer

This one's on me. In all those lessons, I should've have taught you that sometimes, discretion is more important than valor.

Ciri

You sound like Geralt.

Yennefer

Well, he isn't always wrong.

Ciri

One day, I may be queen and I'll need to use what I've got. And what I've got is a sense of justice, a dagger and quick reflexes. You and Geralt taught me those things.

Yennefer

Then our teachings were incomplete, because what we should have taught you is about consequences.

Ciri

Consequences are just an excuse not to act, even when someone's going to be killed. You didn't see that child's eyes, I had to do what I did-

Yennefer

No, you chose to interfere. That messenger in Ellander, his fate is a mystery, but I know what will happen here. Dominik Houvenaghel will send his cousin Leo Bonhart here to recuperate his losses with money or with blood. The townspeople who do survive will be conscripted to fight against the war that's looming on the horizon, where they'll die on the battlefield. If disease or starvation doesn't claim them first. You saved one and the consequences has likely damned a hundred others in exchange.

Ciri

What is the point in me seeing the future if I can't do anything to change it? Well why would you understand? You see what you want, you make it happen. You snap your fingers, mountains move, men bend to your will. How would you know what it's like to fight for control of your life?

Yennefer

My whole life, I've had so much power. But I've never been perfect. I fought with Tissaia every step of the way, I wanted to do things my way. That letter? I don't know if I'll be welcomed back to Aretuza. Like you, I once chose to interfere. I set a prisoner free and in doing so, I set the entire North against the Brotherhood and the Brotherhood against each other.

Ciri

Those bodies hanging at the tavern. All those executions.

Yennefer

The whole Continent is paying the consequences. And you, because of me. It's not enough to possess Chaos. You and I, we must learn to control it, that is the essence of power. That is how we will move mountains. Together. Come along, Ciri.