If you’re gonna take from the dead, the least you can do is bury them.[to Mat]
If you can’t lead the world from a room built of wood and dirt, how can you call yourself a leader?[to Lan]
All we can do is the best we can with the life that’s given to us.
Your life isn’t going to be what you thought. You’ve lived too long in these mountains, pretending that what happens in the rest of the world won’t affect you.
You want to know how we rule this world without collapsing from the pain and loss? You find a piece of this world that belongs to you and you hold on to it. And then, when it’s finally gone, you find another.[to Nynaeve]
You think you know this world. You know nothing. The Dark One is coming for your friends.[to Nynaeve]
You have to embrace the bitter and the sweet, so you never forget which is which.[to Rand]
You can cover the Light with the palm of a child’s hand, but a Leaf, even if you crush it, bury it, burn it, it becomes a part of the earth and the air.
Women all over the world have different names for it. But it’s the same thing. It’s the same thing for all of us. One thing. One Power.[to Egwene]
What greater revenge against violence than peace? What greater revenge against death than life?
We’re no one’s but our own.
We will always tell the truth. It just may not be the truth you think you hear.[to Egwene]