Why didn't you guess this would happen?" Elayne demanded. He looked at her, expressionless. One side of his mouth twitched up, then he pulled his hat down, shading his eyepatch. "Light," Elayne said. "You knew. You spent this whole week planning with us, and you knew the entire time you'd throw it out with the dishwater.

I have never known anyone else," Egwene said to him, "who will work so hard to avoid hard work, Matrim Cauthon.

I'm not certain that I draw from any one culture more than others. Many myths and legends of many different cultures are really the same story when you get to the heart of it. They are often cultural cautionary tales about how we should behave and how we should live.

If you have a sword, and the Aielman has his bare hands, it is an even fight. If you're good.

Waiting turns men into bears in a barn, and women into cats in a sack.

Beauty holds more worth than gold.

The oak fought the wind and was broken, the willow bent when it must and survived.