A Memory of Light (Wheel of Time, #14; A Memory of Light, #3)

by Robert Jordan

The secret, it turned out, had not been to harden himself to the point of breaking. It had not been to become numb. It had been to walk in pain, like the pain of the wounds at his side, and accept that pain as part of him.

“Darkness cannot push back Light. Darkness exists only when Light fails, when it flees.