I do not like odd things until I can understand them.
Always something new, always something I didn’t expect, and sometimes it isn’t horrible.
Sometimes six and six make a dozen, and sometimes they make a mess.
Well, I can admire stubbornness in a man. There is little to a man who’s too easily biddable.
If you wish, you may call me Rand Sedai.
Let the Dragon ride again on the winds of time.
Care for the living. I’ll weep for the dead later. – Perrin Aybara.
He came like the wind, like the wind touched everything, and like the wind was gone. -from The Dragon Reborn. By Loial, son of Arent son of Halan, the Fourth Age.
On the heights, all paths are paved with daggers. -Old Seanchan saying.
I surrender to it, and by surrendering, I control it.
Tuon’s eyes snapped open, and despite the dim light, she focused directly on Mat. She saw the knife in his hand, ready to throw. Then she looked over her shoulder.
If you have a sword, and the Aielman has his bare hands, it is an even fight. If you’re good.
Mat had tried to make her say she saw a hat floating around Mat’s head. That would persuade Tuon to stop trying to get rid of his, would it not?
Moiraine: It seems Ryne was wrong as well as a Darkfriend. You were better than he. Lan: He was better. But he thought I was finished, with only one arm. He never understood. You surrender after you’re dead.
Hammer the iron that lies on your anvil instead of daydreaming about working silver.
The leaf lives its appointed time, and does not struggle against the wind that carries it away. The leaf does no harm, and finally falls to nourish new leaves. So it should be with all men and women.
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 if there wasn’t a balance.
Any day you wake up, maybe you die.
How long had he been doing what was necessary instead of what was right? In a fair world they would be one and the same.
An open sack hides nothing, And an open door hides little, but an open man is surely hiding something. lini is quoted by Nynaeve.