Those intricate curves and patterns your people create are beyond human eyes and hands to make. Perhaps we wished to avoid a poor imitation that would only have been an ever-present reminder to us of...
He let them be heroes.
Facing them (men) with knives and spears was much easier than loving them, much easier.
A man without trust might as well be dead.
When you knew you were going to hang, the only thing to do was grin at the noose.
The Light shine on you, and the Creator shelter you. The last embrace of the mother welcome you home.
Often you don't know whether a woman is friend, enemy or lover until it is too late. Sometimes, she is all three.
Even fools say something worthwhile now and again. Even a blind pig finds an acorn sometimes.
Come to think of it, an Aes Sedai would probably follow a man off a cliff, too, if only to explain to him - in detail - all the things he was doing incorrectly in the way he went about killing himself...
A thousand stories had painted cities in his mind, the great cities of kings and queens, of thrones and powers and legends, and Caemlyn fit into those mind-deep pictures and water fits into a jug.
The Wheel of Time turns, and Ages come and pass, leaving memories that become legend. Legend fades to myth, and even myth is long forgotten when the Age that gave it birth comes again.
The lions sing and the hills take flight. The moon by day, and the sun by night. Blind woman, deaf man, jackdaw fool. Let the Lord of Chaos rule. -chant from a children's game heard in Great Arvalon,...
Juilin, she asked hesitantly, what were you going to do with the salt and cooking oil? Not exactly, she added more quickly. Just a general idea. He looked at her for a moment. I do not know. But they...
If you watch the wolf too hard, a mouse will bite you on the ankle
If you ask the lion to protect from from wolves, you have only chosen to end in one belly instead of another.
Any fool knows men and women think differently at times, but the biggest difference is this. Men forget, but never forgive; women forgive, but never forget.
You read too much and understand too little.
Women do not become exhausted they only exhaust others.
Two days' hunger made a fine sauce for anything.
The Shadow shall rise across the world, and darken every land, even to the smallest corner, and there shall be neither Light nor safety. And he who shall be born of the Dawn, born of the Maiden, accor...