Always plan for the worst, child; that way, all your surprises will be pleasant ones.

hope is like a piece of string when you’re drowning; it just isn’t enough to get you out by itself.

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?

When you wish for so long that you could hear something, and then suddenly, with no warning, you do, it is like a lightning strike and rain on parched ground at the same time. You're stunned, but you cannot hear enough.

If you have a sword, and the Aielman has his bare hands, it is an even fight. If you're good.

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

I'll never forget the first time Davram took me by the scruff of my neck and showed me he was the stronger of us. It was magnificent! If a woman is stronger than her husband, she comes to despise him. She has the choice of either tyrannizing him or else making herself less in order not to make him less. If the husband is strong enough, though, she can be as strong as she is, as strong as she can grow to be.