At dawn the day was born, just as twilight gave birth to night, but at dawn, night died, and at twilight, day.
Death came for every man eventually, and seldom where or when he expected.
Stories have power. Gleemen’s tales, and bards’ epics, and rumors in the street alike. They stir passions, and change the way men see the world.
Afterwards, we will do as we must. As we do now.
It left a feeling of something not done.
The Wheel weaves as the Wheel wills, Perrin. We’ve become what we needed to become.” Perrin.
An enemy who comes once, will come again. Unless they are stopped. My.
The spine that refused to bend at all was often the most malleable once it gave way.
Let the word stand on its own. If it is the right word, it will work without help. If it’s the wrong word, adding other words to it will just make it seem desperate.
Light’s truth, if you got a woman to feed you on a regular basis, she was halfway won.
Heroes in the stories never had to sleep in haystacks, or under hedges. But it was not easy to pretend, anymore, that he was a hero in a story.
Do not cut off your ears because you do not like your earrings.
I may lead you wrong now and then, but in the end, you can be sure that I’m always a safe bet.
We come, brother. We come, Young Bull.
You’ll use it, boy, and as long as you hate using it, you will use it more wisely than most men would.
As far as he was concerned, a man who decided to rob and kill deserved what he got when he lost the game. He did not dwell on them, but neither did he jerk his eyes away if they fell on one of the robbers.
In the last, lorn fight ’gainst the fall of long night, the mountains stand guard, and the dead shall be ward, for the grave is no bar to my call.
Being a soldier is about keeping your terror in check.
Only a Darkfriend would betray an oath such as that one. Of course, every Seanchan was close to being a Darkfriend.
Pain was as much a part of life as breathing.