“the wolf may fight the bear but the rabbit always looses ”

“Whether the bear beats the wolf or the wolf beats the bear, the rabbit always loses.”

“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.”

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

“Waiting turns men into bears in a barn, and women into cats in a sack.”

“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.”

“A beautiful battle is one you don't have to fight”