It was easier to be brave, he discovered, when someone needed your protection.

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She was a soldier, a warrior in her way as much as I. This could have happened two hundred times these past twenty years. She knew it, and so did I. It was a good day to die.

The people seemed nearly ostentatious about minding their own business.

You may be old enough to marry, Matrim Cauthon, but in truth you shouldn't be off your mother's apron strings.

When the Wolf King carries the hammer, thus are the final days known. When the fox marries the raven, and the trumpets of battle are blown.

The way back will come but once. Be steadfast.

Who are you? What do you want? The black-clad man drew himself up arrogantly. Once I was called Elan Morin Tedronai, but now— Betrayer of Hope.

The nobles and the noble Houses maneuver for advantage. They do things they think will help them, or hurt and enemy, or both. Usually, it's all done in secrecy, or if not, they try to make it seem as if they're doing something other than what they are.

There is a different beauty in simplicity, in a single line placed just so, a single flower among the rocks. The harshness of the stone makes the flower more precious.

A pig painted gold is still a pig.

Some women, Dyelin murmured into her wine, can make a fish bite by crooking a finger, Lady Birgitte. Other women have to drag their bait all over the pond.

What you practice too often, you use without thinking.

It was an awkward morning, made for unpleasant thoughts.

Here or there, it is the same fight, I think, Loial.

The topics of our ignorance may change, but the nature of the world is that no man may know everything.