As the Wheel of Time turns, places wear many names. Men wear many names, many faces. Different faces, but always the same man. Yet no one knows the Great Pattern the Wheel weaves, or even the Pattern of an Age. We can only watch, and study, and hope.

Has anyone ever told you that you should wear a hat? It would fit the missing eye quite well.' -Kathana to Mat

And yet many of us do it without families," Nynaeve said. "Without love, without passion beyond our own particular interests. So even while we try to guide the world, we separate ourselves from it.We risk arrogance, Egwene. We always assume we know best, but risk making ourselves unable to fathom the people we claim to serve.

In a cruel land, you either learned to laugh at cruelty or spent your life weeping.

May you shelter in the palm of the Creator's hand, and may the last embrace of the mother welcome you home.

A secret spoken finds wings.

No. Please do not name either child after me, Elayne. Let them live their own lives. My shadow will be long enough as it is.' -Rand