You may be old enough to marry, Matrim Cauthon, but in truth you shouldn’t be off your mother’s apron strings.
Change what you can if it needs changing, but learn to live with what you can’t change.’ You’ll only get a sick stomach, otherwise.
To the Aiel, it was not a war; it was an execution.
You stand up straw men,” Nynaeve said. “We have a saying in the Two Rivers. ‘Whether the bear beats the wolf or the wolf beats the bear, the rabbit always loses.
I’ve been thinking.” Her eyebrows rose, but he was used to surprise whenever he claimed an idea. Even when his ideas were as good as theirs, they always remembered how deliberate he was in thinking of them.
I know something of taking an enemy into your bosom. His blade goes in quicker when he is close.” With.
Men kept sticking their hands in the fire thinking this time it would not burn, so.
Blood of our blood mixed with the old blood, raised by an ancient blood not ours.
How people see you first is what they hold hardest in their minds. It is the way of the world.
I would not mind you in my head, if you were not so clearly mad.
Patience is a virtue that must be learned, but we must all be ready for the change of an instant.
Sa souvraya niende misain ye.
Like most Two Rivers folk, Rand had a strong stubborn streak. Outsiders sometimes said it was the prime trait of people in the Two Rivers, that they could give mules lessons and teach stones.
Mia dovienya nesodhin soende.
When you die, people begin to forget, who you were and what you did, or tried to do. Everybody dies eventually, and everybody is forgotten, eventually, but there’s no bloody point dying before your time comes.
He never understood. You surrender after you’re dead.
They came over the Dragonwall like a flood,” Tam said suddenly, in a strong, angry voice, “and washed the land with blood. How many died for Laman’s sin?
The sun rose reluctantly, without warmth.
The best of men are not much better than housebroken. But then, the best of them are worth the trouble of housebreaking.
All women are Aes Sedai.