Hardness shatters; strength endures.

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

I've seen men die because they were sure that what should not happen,would not. -Robert Jordan(The eye of the world,Wheel of time)

He was swimming in a sea of other people’s expectations. Men had drowned in seas like that.

I will hate the man you choose because he is not me, and love him if he makes you smile. No woman deserves the sure knowledge of widow’s black as her brideprice, you least of all.

On the heights, all paths are paved with daggers. -Old Seanchan saying

My mother says men are different from us. She says we want to be in love, but only with the one we want; a man needs to be in love, but he will love the first woman to tie a string to his heart. - Egwene, speaking to Elayne