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

Two days' hunger made a fine sauce for anything.

Men forget, but never forgive; women forgive, but never forget.

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.

Always something new, always something I didn't expect, and sometimes it isn't horrible.

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

Why, that's like being told to go up in the hills to find lions, only you do not know whether there are any lions, but if there are, they may be hunting you, and they may be disguised as bushes. Oh, and if you find any lions, try not to let them eat you before you can tell where they are. -Elayne