Quite often, when a woman was agitated, she tried to soothe others whether they required soothing or not.
Women could compress a great deal into one look.
You never escape the traps you spin yourself.
The determination of a man set upon justice is a thing not lightly ignored.
The woman never wanted much. Just her own way. Like just about every other woman he had ever known.
Perrin suspected Lini was one of those women who saw her “place” as being in charge. Come to think of it, most women did. That was the way of the world, it seemed, not just the Two Rivers.
All things change. Until we wake, the dream drifts on the wind.
We’ll make a home,” Lan said. “The Shadow defeated, Nynaeve and I will reclaim Malkier. We’ll make the fields bloom again, cleanse the lakes. Green pastures. No more Trollocs to fight. Children to ride on your back, old friend. You can spend your days in peace, eating apples and having your pick of mares.” It.
Whether or not what you do has the effect you want, it will have three at least you never expected, and one of those usually unpleasant.
Two Rivers, craftsmen were revered. And their marksmen were the best the world knew. An elite group of Two Rivers men, armed with the new firing sticks men were calling rifles, served with the Aiel in their peacekeeping campaigns in Shara. It was the only place war was known in.
Feel it. Know it. Be it. You and the bud are the same. You are one. You are the bud.
Everyone knew that, and not many stopped to think that anything that “everyone knew” deserved close examination. Being.
One of the Prophecies says that the Stone of Tear will never fall until the People of the Dragon come to the Stone. Another says the Stone will never fall till the Sword That Cannot Be Touched is wielded by the Dragon’s hand.
Some can do things others cannot,” Nandera said, as if that was enough explanation.
Only a fool believed women less dangerous than men, but women often seemed to think men fools when it came to women.
Concentrate on a single flame and feed all your passions into it – fear, hate, anger – until your mind became empty. Become one with the void, Tam said, and you could do anything.
I never saw or heard or smelled anything that couldn’t be talked about.
Truth almost always did come out in the end, but by the end, truth was often so wrapped around with rumors and speculation and absolute lies that most people never did believe it.
The pin was the smallest part of a pair of scissors, and the easiest made, but without it, the scissors cut no cloth.
This wind, it was not the ending. There are no endings, and never will be endings, to the turning of the Wheel of Time. But it was an ending.