I think that quite often you can only find a choice between bad and worse. But I think it's worth making the effort, and I like to expose my characters to that sort of situation.

Surprising what you can dig out of books if you read long enough, isn't it?

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.

Sometimes, pain is all that lets you know you're alive.

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

Men," Thom murmured. "Men who shook the pillars of heaven and rocked the world on its foundations." He shook his head. "It doesn't matter. Forget about them. They are dust now.

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.