Facing them (men) with knives and spears was much easier than loving them, much easier.

You ride to battle?" Karede asked. "I was thinking more of a saunter," Mat said. He shook his head. "I need a feel for what Demandred is doing...I'm going out there, Karede, and putting you fellows between me and the Trollocs sounds delightful. Are you coming?

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.

The rose petal floats on water. The kingfisher flashes above the pond. Life and beauty swirl in the midst of death.

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

When you wish for so long that you could hear something, and then suddenly, with no warning, you do, it is like a lightning strike and rain on parched ground at the same time. You're stunned, but you cannot hear enough.

Always leave a way out, unless you really want to find out how hard a man can fight when he’s nothing to lose.