Quotes About Sacrifice

You didn't listen to me, Lan whispered. One last lesson. The hardest. Demandred struck, and Lan saw his opening. Lan lunged forward placing Demandred's sword point against his own side and ramming himself forward onto it. I did not come here to win, Lan whispered, smiling. I came here to kill you. Death is lighter than a feather. Demandred's eyes opened wide, and he tried to pull back. Too late. Lan's sword took him straight though the throat.

Whether the bear beats the wolf or the wolf beats the bear, the rabbit always loses.

Take what you want, and pay for it.

The Golden Crane flies for Tarmon Gai'don!

Most of those we call heroes only did what they had to do.

I, Perrin Aybara, do pledge you my love, Faile Bashere, for as long as I live For as long as I live and after. What I possess in this world I give to you. A horse, an axe, a bow. A hammer. Not much to gift a bride. I give you life, my love. It's all I have. I will keep you and hold you, succor and tend you, protect and shelter you, for all the days of my life. I can't keep you; the only way I can protect you is to send you away. I am yours, always and forever.

We are alike in many ways, you and I. There is darkness in us. Darkness, pain, death. They radiate from us. If ever you love a woman, Rand, leave her and let her find another. It will be the best gift you can give her.

Perrin, my father says a general can take care of the living or weep for the dead, but he cannot do both.

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.

In war, you say a prayer for your dead and ride on, because there is always another fight over the next horizon. —al'Lan Mandragoran

You're welcome in my house when this is over. We'll open a cask of Master al'Vere's best brandy. We'll remember those who fell, and we'll tell our children how we stood when the clouds turned black and the world started to die. We'll tell them we stood shoulder to shoulder, and there was just no space for the Shadow to squeeze through.

Death is lighter than a feather, duty heavier than a mountain. So many duties.

The Last Battle was not hope. The Last Battle was death. But it was a place to be, a place to go.

What does finding the Horn count if I abandon Egwene to this? If I did that, the Horn couldn't save me. The Creator couldn't save me. I would damn myself.

I've come to give you your gift back, Mordeth, Cauthon whispered. I consider our debt paid in full.

In Shinear, a woman [is] safe anywhere, any time-except from Trollocs and Myrddraal, of course-and any man [will] die to see it so.

I would burn the world and use my soul for tinder to hear her laugh again.  

Hero! He was no hero! What did a hero get? An Aes Sedai patting you on the head before she sent you out like a hound to do it again. A noblewoman condescending to favor you with a kiss, or laying a flower on your grave.

You can ask or demand anything of me, but never to let you die without trying to save you. The day you die, I die.

If you boys... you men can do what has to be done when you'd rather do almost anything else, why do you think I will do less? Or Egwene

only the dead could afford oblivion.

Forward the Golden Crane!

Who would rule a nation when he could have easier work, such as carrying water uphill in a sieve?

The fact that the price must be paid is proof that it is worth paying.