The men in my family are strong because the women in my family kill and eat the weak ones.

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

A spoonful of hope and a cup of despair

Tonight you will eat fish. Tomorrow, you may die.

Out of the night Hopper came, and Perrin was one with the wolf. Hopper, the cub who had watched the eagles soar, and wanted so badly to fly through the sky as the eagles did. The cub who hopped and jumped and leaped until he could leap higher than any other wolf, who never lost the cub's yearning to soar through the sky. [...] Something crashed into his head, and as he fell, he did not know if it was Hopper or himself who died.

By the way, I saved Moiraine. Chew on that as you try to decide which of the two of us is winning." -Mat

Thank you," the young mother said again. "Thank you." "The Black Tower protects," Logain heard himself say. "Always." "I will send him to you to be tested when he is of age," the woman promised, holding her son. "I would have him join you, if he has the talent." The talent. Not the curse. The talent.