“Two hands. One to destroy, the other to save. Which had he lost?”

“By the way, I saved Moiraine. Chew on that as you try to decide which of the two of us is winning."-Mat”

“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.”

“All was shattered, and all but memory lost, and one memory above all others, of him who brought the Shadow and the Breaking of the World. And him they named Dragon.”

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

“He had gone right through fear and come out the other side in some place cold. Anger was all that kept him warm. They could gentle him, or burn him to a crisp where he stood, and he no longer cared.”

“How long had he been doing what was necessary instead of what was right? In a fair world they would be one and the same.”