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

by Robert Jordan

“It’s different, now. I don’t ever want to use it again.” “You’ll use it.” Perrin raised the axe to throw it in the pool, but Elyas caught his wrist. “You’ll use it, boy, and as long as you hate using it, you will use it more wisely than most men would. Wait. If ever you don’t hate it any longer, then will be the time to throw it as far as you can and run the other way.”

two days’ hunger made a fine sauce for anything,

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,