You didn't listen to me," Lan whispered. One last lesson. The hardest. Demandred struck, and Lan saw his opening. Lan lunged forward placing Demandred's sword point against his own side and ramming himself forward onto it. "I did not come here to win," Lan whispered, smiling. "I came here to kill you. Death is lighter than a feather." Demandred's eyes opened wide, and he tried to pull back. Too late. Lan's sword took him straight though the throat.

The Amyrlin Seat has fallen," a nearby Aes Sedai cried amid the crystallized Sharans. "The Amyrlin Seat has fallen!

Time to toss the dice

If you wish, you may call me Rand Sedai.

Whether the bear beats the wolf or the wolf beats the bear, the rabbit always loses.

There is one rule, above all others, for being a man. Whatever comes, face it on your feet.

The arrogance of men never ceases to amaze me. You all think everything has to do with you, and every woman has to desire you.