I'm not a clever man, but I'm willing to listen to people who are, and I think you are. Just don't try poking me in the direction you want me to go. I don't like that Master Balwer.
Anyone who claimed that old age had brought them patience was either lying or senile.
Women do not become exhausted they only exhaust others.
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.
Run when you have to, fight when you must, rest when you can.
On the heights, all paths are paved with daggers.
Blood and bloody ashes. Even dead women treated him the way Nynaeve did. Where did they learn it? Were there secret lessons?
The sweetness of victory and the bitterness of defeat are alike a knife of dreams.-From Fog and Steel by Madoc Comadrin
If you plan for the worst, all surprises are pleasant.
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.
I surrender to it, and by surrendering, I control it.
The end is near, Moridin said. The Wheel has groaned its final rotation, the clock has lost its spring, the serpent heaves its final gasps.
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.
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.
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...
The Light shine on you, and the Creator shelter you. The last embrace of the mother welcome you home.
Oh, well, Mat said idly, she's just the Dragon Reborn's woman.(about Min)
Often you don't know whether a woman is friend, enemy or lover until it is too late. Sometimes, she is all three.
Do not trouble trouble till trouble troubles you.
They were the sort who berated a man for meddling and chased him away, then berated him again for not being there when he was needed. Not that they would admit he was needed, even then, not them. Rais...