Keep fighting, you daughters and sons of goats!” Birgitte yelled, loosing arrows at the mercenaries. “I might be dead, but I’m still your bloody commander, and you will obey orders!
May we see the sun rise together, shade of my heart.
Always plan ahead, Lini used to say, but worry too hard over next year, and you can trip over tomorrow.
The Wheel of Time weaves the Pattern of the Ages, and lives are the threads it weaves. No one can tell how the thread of his own life will be woven into the Pattern, or how the thread of a people will be woven.
That had the irritating sound of an old saying.
Just because fate has chosen something for you instead of you choosing it for yourself doesn’t mean it has to be bad.
You never could tell what a man would do when he was drunk, even if that man was your own self.
Respect is a thing earned and not demanded, Perrin Aybara.
Life is a dream, and everyone wakes eventually.
A man is the easiest animal to put on a leash, and the hardest to keep leashed. Even when he chooses it himself.
When an officer runs by with a look like that on his face, you don’t ask if he needs help. You just follow!
The old blood is indeed still strong in the Two Rivers.
It was hard to explain to students that there was a rule that trumped all of the others: Always trust your instincts.
But only a fool thought he knew what was in a woman’s head just because she had a smile on her face.
The innocent died along with the guilty. And if you did nothing, then only the innocent died.
Usually when a woman was in the wrong, she could find so many things to blame on the nearest man that he wound up thinking maybe he really was at fault.
There was nothing a woman would not tell you if you kissed her enough.
You got further plucking the chicken in front of you than trying to start on one up a tree. Especially when the tree was in another country and there might not even be another chicken.
I expect you will not lack for company after I go. Just remember that some women see a man with their hearts, while others see no more than a bauble to wear, no different than a necklace or a bracelet. Remember that i will come back, and I am one who sees with her heart.
In war, as in farming, you sometimes had to step in and get knee-deep in the muck.