You break your neck, and I’ll see it mended just so I can break it again.

How long had he been doing what was necessary instead of what was right? In a fair world they would be one and the same.

I had long wondered," Lan said to Tam. "About the man who had given Rand that heron-marked blade. I wondered if he had truly earned it. Now I know." Lan raised his own sword in salute.

A beautiful battle is one you don't have to fight

We all make our limits, and we set them further out than we have any right.

Facing them (men) with knives and spears was much easier than loving them, much easier.

Anyone who claimed that old age had brought them patience was either lying or senile.