wheel-of-time

And yet many of us do it without families," Nynaeve said. "Without love, without passion beyond our own particular interests. So even while we try to guide the world, we separate ourselves from it.We risk arrogance, Egwene. We always assume we know best, but risk making ourselves unable to fathom the people we claim to serve.

The only rules he wanted to remember were "never kiss a girl whose brothers have knife scars" and "never gamble without knowning a back way out

Anyone who claimed that old age had brought them patience was either lying or senile.

All was shattered, and all but memory lost, and one memory above all others, of him who brought the Shadow and the Breaking of the World. And him they named Dragon.

What did you spend so much time talking about with Ila? If you weren__ dancing with that long-legged fellow, you were talking to her like it was some kind of secret.___la was giving me advice on being a woman,_ Egwene replied absently. He began laughing, and she gave him a hooded, dangerous look that he failed to see.__dvice! Nobody tells us how to be men. We just are.___hat,_ Egwene said, __s probably why you make such a bad job of it.

Couldn__ we camp down by the lakes?_ Nynaeve asked, patting her face with her kerchief. __t must be cooler down by the water.___ight,_ Mat said, ____ just like to stick my head in one of them. I might never take it out.__ust then something roiled the waters of the nearest lake, the dark water phosphorescing as a huge body rolled beneath the surface. Length on man-thick length sent ripples spreading, rolling on and on until at last a tail rose, waving a point like a wasp__ stinger for an instant in the twilight, at least five spans into the air. All along that length fat tentacles writhed like monstrous worms, as many as a centipede__ legs. It slid slowly beneath the surface and was gone, only the fading ripples to say it had ever been.Rand closed his mouth and exchanged a look with Perrin. Perrin__ yellow eyes were as disbelieving as he knew his own must be. Nothing that big could live in a lake that size. Those couldn__ have been hands on those tentacles. They couldn__ have been.__n second thought,_ Mat said faintly, __ like it right here just fine.

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)

Browns seek knowledge, Blues meddle in causes, and Whites consider the questions of truth with implacable logic. We all do some of it all, of course. But to be Green means to stand ready. In the Trolloc Wars, we were often called the Battle Ajah. All Aes Sedai helped where and when they could, but the Green Ajah alone was always with the armies, in almost every battle. We were the counter to the dreadlords. The Battle Ajah. And now we stand ready, for the Trollocs to come south again, for Tarmon Gai'don. the Last Battle. We will be there. That is what it means to be Green. -Alanna

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

Nynaeve shook her head. She supposed it was one way to find money for the poor. Simply rob anyone who was not poor. Of course, that would just make everyone poor in the end, but it might work for a time

Sandar came to stand beside him, frowning down at the crumpled High Lord. "He does not look so mighty lying there," he said wonderingly. "He does not look so much greater than me.