Bound by the Oath against lying, Aes Sedai had carried the halftruth, the quarter-truth and the implication to arts.

It has been quite a weight, hasn't it?" Tam asked. "What weight?" Rand replied. "That lost hand you've been carrying." Rand looked down at his stump. "Yes. I believe it has been at that.

There were many good years. Good decades, good centuries. We believed we were living in paradise. Perhaps that was our downfall. We wanted our lives to be perfect, so we ignored imperfections. Problems were magnified through inattention and war might have become inevitable if the Bore hadn't ever made.

Taren Ferry folk had a reputation for slyness and trickery. If you shook hands with a Taren Ferry man, people said, you counted your fingers afterwards.

Dovie'andi se tovya sagain!

The arrogance of men never ceases to amaze me. You all think everything has to do with you, and every woman has to desire you.

A flapping tongue has killed more men than sudden storms ever did.