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.
Robert JordanWomen often seemed to leave things unsaid, and in his limited experience it was what they did not say that proved the most trouble.
Robert JordanWell, I can admire stubbornness in a man. There is little to a man who's too easily biddable.
Robert JordanFrom the time an Aiel boy becomes a man he will not sing anything but battle chants, or their dirge for the slain. I have heard them singing over their dead, and over those they have killed. That song is one to make the stones weep.
Robert Jordan