The Eye of the World (The Wheel of Time, #1)

by Robert Jordan

But hope is like a piece of string when you’re drowning; it just isn’t enough to get you out by itself.”

Poetry out of Lan? The man was like an onion; every time Rand thought he knew something about the Warder, he discovered another layer underneath.

“I will hate the man you choose because he is not me, and love him if he makes you smile. No woman deserves the sure knowledge of widow’s black as her brideprice, you least of all.”