“The only way was forward, whatever lay at the end.”

“Forward the Golden Crane!”

“If you ask the lion to protect from from wolves, you have only chosen to end in one belly instead of another.”

“The wind blew southwards, through knotted forests, over shimmering plains and toward lands unexplored. This wind, it was not the ending. There are no endings, and never will be endings, to the turning of the Wheel of Time.But it was an ending.”

“There is one rule, above all others, for being a man. Whatever comes, face it on your feet.”

“But it was an ending.”

“Come to think of it, an Aes Sedai would probably follow a man off a cliff, too, if only to explain to him - in detail - all the things he was doing incorrectly in the way he went about killing himself.”