On the heights, all paths are paved with daggers. -Old Seanchan saying

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

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

A young wolfhound must meet his first wolf someday, but if the wolf sees him as a puppy, if he acts the puppy, the wolf will surely kill him. The wolfhound must be a wolfhound in the wolf's eyes even more than in his own, if he is to survive.

Never kiss a girl whose brothers have knife scars.

Strange clothes you wear, Child of the Dragon. Has the Wheel turned so far? Do the People of the Dragon return to the first Covenant? But you wear a sword. That is neither now nor then.

Nobody tells us how to be men. We just are.