We must leave our children to fate.
You’re the son of a king and one day you might be a king yourself. Life and death will be your gifts, so learn how to give them, boy.
Wyrd bið ful āræd. Fate is inexorable. We are given power and we lose it.
We live in a world where the strongest win, and the strongest must expect to be disliked.
No warrior stays alive by being slow.
It takes a weak man to prove his strength by striking a woman.
Instinct is a strange thing. You cannot touch it, feel it, smell it, or hear it, but you must trust it, and that night, as we listened to the slap of the waves and the creak of the oars, I was as certain as I could be that my fears were justified.
I wondered why the gods no longer came to earth. It would make belief so much easier.
He needed to know it, see it, smell it, and survive it. I was training the boy not just to be a warrior, but to be a king.
Always fight the horse, not the rider.