"Larine had a bright future ahead of her, but she had to learn to obey the rules before she could begin learning which could be broken and when."
- Robert Jordan
"Bound by the Oath against lying, Aes Sedai [carry] the half-truth, the quarter-truth and the implication to arts."
"In a cruel land, you either learned to laugh at cruelty or spent your life weeping."
"Couldn’t we camp down by the lakes?” Nynaeve asked, patting her face with her kerchief. “It must be cooler down by the water.”“Light,” Mat said, “I’d just like to stick my head in one of them. I might..."