What does finding the Horn count if I abandon Egwene to this? If I did that, the Horn couldn’t save me. The Creator couldn’t save me. I would damn myself.
There’s an old saying in the Two Rivers” Rand said dryly. “‘The louder a man tells you he’s honest, the harder you must hold on to your purse.‘” Another said, “The fox often offers to give the duck its pond.
The end is near,” Moridin said. “The Wheel has groaned its final rotation, the clock has lost its spring, the serpent heaves its final gasps.
The only rules he wanted to remember were “never kiss a girl whose brothers have knife scars” and “never gamble without knowning a back way out.
All men are ignorant, Aes Sedai. The topics of our ignorance may change, but the nature of the world is that no man may know everything.
I’ve come to give you your gift back, Mordeth,” Cauthon whispered. “I consider our debt paid in full.
He came like the wind, like the wind touched everything, and like the wind was gone.
Image perception makes a big difference. That’s one of the things I tell entrepreneurs today. Fine, focus on products, focus on customers and all that good stuff – that’s necessary. But the image that you project is also key. Don’t forget that.
Lan shook his head sightly “He was better. But he thought I was finished, with only one arm. He never understood. You surrender after you’re dead.
Women were glad when he came into their lives. It was not boasting. Women smiled for him; even when he left them, they smiled as if they would welcome him back. That was all he ever really wanted from women; a smile, a dance, a kiss, and to be remembered foundly.
She stood in one smooth motion, surprisingly pale where the sun not touch her, slender and hard-muscled, yet with roundnesses and softnesses that haunted his dreams.
Its time to role the dice.
The weak must be bold cautiously.
In wars, boy, fools kill other fools for foolish causes. That’s enough for anyone to know.
They want to own the world, but it seems you already own a people.
I figured that once you’ve decided to jump off a cliff, you might as well pick the highest one. Why accept the risk, if not for the greatest prize?
I will hate the man you choose because he isn’t me, and love him if he makes you smile.
If you don’t know everything, you must go on with what you do know.
Storms rumble beyond the horizon, and the fires of heaven purge the earth. There is no salvation without destruction, no hope this side of death.
Fantasy is an area where it is possible to talk about right and wrong, good and evil, with a straight face. In mainstream fiction and even in a good deal of mystery, these things are presented as simply two sides of the same coin. Never really more than a matter of where you happen to be standing.