Moiraine: It seems Ryne was wrong as well as a Darkfriend. You were better than he. Lan: He was better. But he thought I was finished, with only one arm. He never understood. You surrender after you're dead.

Fantasy is an area where it is possible to talk about right and wrong, good and evil, with a straight face. In mainstream fiction and even in a good deal of mystery, these things are presented as simply two sides of the same coin. Never really more than a matter of where you happen to be standing.

Loial, son of Arent, son of Halen, had secretly always wanted to be hasty.

One pretty woman means fun at the dance. Two pretty women means trouble in the house. Three pretty women means run at the hills.

What is too absurd to be believed is believed because it is too absurd to be a lie.

If you wish, you may call me Rand Sedai.

A flapping tongue has killed more men than sudden storms ever did.