Death is lighter than a feather, duty heavier than a mountain. So many duties. Egwene.
And the Shadow fell upon the land, and the world was riven stone from stone. The oceans fled, and the mountains were swallowed up, and the nations were scattered to the eight corners of the World. The...
All men are ignorant, Aes Sedai. The topics of our ignorance may change, but the nature of the world is that no man may know everything.
A wise ruler takes advice, but should never be seen to take it. Let them think you know more than you do. It will not harm them, and it will help you.
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 a...
We rode on the winds of the rising storm,We ran to the sounds of the thunder.We danced among the lightning bolts,and tore the world asunder.
There's an old saying in the Two Rivers Rand said dryly. 'The louder a man tells you he's honest, the harder you must hold on to your purse.' Another said, The fox often offers to give the duck its po...
There was a wild light in his eyes. Bring your lightnings, Aes Sedai. I will dance with them.
I will hate the man you choose because he isn't me, and love him if he makes you smile.
I love words, Mat said. There are some deliciously pretty words out there. 'Smile.' That's always sounded like a pretty word to me. Don't you think? Or, perhaps, the words 'I promise not to kill Egwen...
I do not like odd things until I can understand them.
Cauthon lives, Arganda said. And that's bloody amazing, considering that someone blew up his command post, set fire to his tenet, killed a bunch of his damane, and chased off his wife. Cauthon crawled...
Anything can be a weapon, if the man or woman who holds it has the nerve and will to make it so.
Always leave a way out, unless you really want to find out how hard a man can fight when he’s nothing to lose.
A man who trusts everyone is a fool and a man who trusts no one is a fool. We are all fools if we live long enough.
Of them? Mat spluttered. Light! Two! Oh, burn me! He's the luckiest man in the world or the biggest fool since creation!
You will serve the Cyrstal Throne well. It would be a shame to see you assassinated too early. I will make certain that the first I send after you are newly trained, so that you may stop them with eas...
Yes...how else could Demandred explain the skill of the enemy general? Only a man with the experience of an ancient was so masterly at the dance of battlefields. At their core, many battle tactics wer...
Women were glad when he came into their lives. It was not boasting. Women smiled for him; even when he left them, they smiled as if they would welcome him back. That was all he ever really wanted from...
Why didn't you guess this would happen? Elayne demanded.He looked at her, expressionless. One side of his mouth twitched up, then he pulled his hat down, shading his eyepatch.Light, Elayne said. You k...