There were many good years. Good decades, good centuries. We believed we were living in paradise. Perhaps that was our downfall. We wanted our lives to be perfect, so we ignored imperfections. Problems were magnified through inattention and war might have become inevitable if the Bore hadn't ever made.

Almost dead yesterday, maybe dead tomorrow, but alive, gloriously alive, today. -- Mat Cauthon

Waiting turns men into bears in a barn, and women into cats in a sack.

Life is a dream from which we all must wake before we can dream again.

The Golden Crane flies for Tarmon Gai'don!

He was swimming in a sea of other people’s expectations. Men had drowned in seas like that.

Always leave a way out, unless you really want to find out how hard a man can fight when he’s nothing to lose.