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

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

“Surprising what you can dig out of books if you read long enough, isn't it?”

“Always leave a way out, unless you really want to find out how hard a man can fight when he’s nothing to lose.”

“He found what he'd hoped to see, the reason why she'd left so quickly. Just outsidee the tent, Lan held her tightly.”

“Burn me," Mat said, throwing on the shirt he dug out of the bundle. "I'll give you a hundred Tar Valon marks if you do it, just so I can tell the story.”

“Some men […] choose to seek greatness, while others are forced to it. It is always better to choose than to be forced.A man who is forced is never completely his own master. He must dance on the strings of those who forced him.”