Sometimes she thought the Creator had only made men to cause trouble for women.
Why, to see, Loial said as if it were the most obvious thing in the world. I read the books, all the travelers’ accounts, and it began to burn in me that I had to see, not just read.
The whole day of Bel Tine would be taken up with singing and dancing and feasting, with time out for footraces, and contests in almost everything. Prizes would be given not only in archery, but for the best with the sling, and the quarterstaff. There would be contests at solving riddles and puzzles, at the rope tug, and lifting and tossing weights, prizes for the best singer, the best dancer and the best fiddle player, for the quickest to shear a sheep, even the best at bowls, and at darts.
Logic is always applicable to the real world,” Miyasi said dismissively, “but only a novice would think the real world can be applied to logic. Ideals must be first principles. Not the mundane world.
Men listened closer to calm tones than to the loudest shouts, so long as firmness and certainty accompanied the calm.
At the south end of the inn, away from the stream, stretched the remains of a much larger stone foundation, once part of the inn – or so it was said. A huge oak grew in the middle of it now, with a bole thirty paces around and spreading branches as thick as a man. In the summer, Bran al’Vere set tables and benches under those branches, shady with leaves then, where people could enjoy a cup and a cooling breeze while they talked or perhaps set out a board for a game of stones.
A wise man tried to avoid battles he would not only lose, but look foolish losing.
How do you know when a woman wants to kill you?” Rand mused. “When she knows your name?” Dobraine.
Which cliff did you choose? Pevara sent him. What? You said that when you were among the Sea Folk, they jumped off cliffs to prove their bravery. The higher the cliff, the braver the jumper. Which cliff did you choose? The highest, he admitted. Why? 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?
You have made a place in my heart where I thought there was no room for anything else.
I’ve stayed with you this long, Rand. Why would I stop now?” Loial.
He has forgotten how to laugh except in bitterness; there are no tears left in him. Unless he finds laughter and tears again, the world faces disaster. He.
People had a way of folding what they saw into what they knew and what they wanted to believe.
Life was only a dream, and all dreams had to end. Aiel.
The key to leadership is in the rippling waves.
Life is uncertainty and struggle, choice and change; one who knew how her life was woven into the Pattern as well as she knew how a thread was laid into a carpet would have the life of an animal. If she did not go mad. Humankind is made for uncertainty, struggle, choice and change.
He said the Dark One intended to blind the Eye of the World, and slay the Great Serpent, kill time itself.
Anger made for hasty decisions and rash words that sometimes were hard to take back.
Lews Therin hummed even harder, making Rand wish the man had a face so he could hit him.
The thief-catcher looked as if he would rather clean the cages with his bare hands. The lions’ cages, with the lions inside.