Belief and order give strength. Have to clear rubble before you can build.
Always something new, always something I didn't expect, and sometimes it isn't horrible.
A young wolfhound must meet his first wolf someday, but if the wolf sees him as a puppy, if he acts the puppy, the wolf will surely kill him. The wolfhound must be a wolfhound in the wolf's eyes even...
A pig painted gold is still a pig.
You cannot escape so easily, Dragon. It is not done between us. It will not be done until the end of time.
You are as eloquent as ever, Mat, Egwene said dryly. Do you still have your pet fox?I do, Mat said. He's snuggled up nice and warm.
What is too absurd to be believed is believed because it is too absurd to be a lie.
To stand against the Shadow so long as iron is hard and stone abides.To defend the Malkieri while one drop of blood remains.To avenge what cannot be defended.
Til shade is gone, til water is goneInto the shadow with teeth baredScreaming defiance with the last breathTo spit in Sightblinder’s eye on the Last Day.
Remember that any meal can be your last. You chose to travel with us, so tonight you will eat fish. Tomorrow, you may die.
Perrin, my father says a general can take care of the living or weep for the dead, but he cannot do both.
Nothing makes Semirhage weep. She gives tears to others, but she has none herself.
Kill a man who needs killing, and sometimes others pay for it. The question is, was it worth doing it anyway? There's always a balance, you know. Good and evil. Light and Shadow. We would not be human...
In wars, boy, fools kill other fools for foolish causes. That’s enough for anyone to know.
If any of these women had been here instead of Nynaeve, the world would have ended.
I have lived for four centures, he said. Perhaps I am still a youth, in that all of us are, compared to the timeless age of the Wheel itself. That said, I am one of the oldest people in existence.Moir...
He wanted to laugh. Only, the sound wouldn't come out. He couldn't summon even a wry humor, not anymore. That wasn't a thought to cause laughter; it was one to cause despair. But Rand did not weep, fo...
He felt something on his neck. Warmth.He hesitated, then turned weary eyes toward the sky. Sunlight bathed his face. He gaped; it seemed so long since he’d seen pure sunlight. It shone down through a...
He did not own her, and she did not own him. The act of his movement so that they faced the same direction meant far more to her than other gesture could.-Aviendha about Rand
For the young, death is an enemy they wish to try their strength against. For those of us a little older, she is an old friend, an old lover, but one we are not eager to meet again soon.