These?" Mat said, gesturing to his coat and shirt. "I really have no idea. They were just down there. I'm completely baffled." He had been very pleased to learn that Seanchan guards-for all their stoic expressions and too-straight backs-responded to bribes like other people.

Two hands. One to destroy, the other to save. Which had he lost?

Dance with her, and she will forgive much. Dance well, and she will forgive anything.

Often you don't know whether a woman is friend, enemy or lover until it is too late. Sometimes, she is all three.

Sometimes six and six make a dozen, and sometimes they make a mess

If you must mount the gallows, give a jest to the crowd, a coin the hangman, and make the drop with a smile on your lips.

If any of these women had been here instead of Nynaeve, the world would have ended.