We are always more afraid than we wish to be, but we can always be braver than we expect.

You're welcome in my house when this is over. We'll open a cask of Master al'Vere's best brandy. We'll remember those who fell, and we'll tell our children how we stood when the clouds turned black and the world started to die. We'll tell them we stood shoulder to shoulder, and there was just no space for the Shadow to squeeze through.

Does it make you brave to stick your hand in a bear's mouth? Would you do it again just because you didn't die?

A young wolfhound must meet his first wolf someday, but if the wolf sees him as a puppy, if he acts the puppy, the wolf will surely kill him. The wolfhound must be a wolfhound in the wolf's eyes even more than in his own, if he is to survive.

Often you don't know whether a woman is friend, enemy or lover until it is too late. Sometimes, she is all three.

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

She understood his eyes, colder than winter's heart. A man who knew he was dead and couldn't make himself care; you are spared that. Mashiara. His lost love.