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“We’ll dance all night while the moon runs free, and dandle the lasses upon our knee, and then you’ll ride along with me, to dance with Jak o’ the Shadows.”

“Luck is a horse to ride like any other.”

“I’m a gambler, not a soldier. A lover.”

“That is just bloody wonderful.”

“Almost dead yesterday, maybe dead tomorrow, but alive, gloriously alive, today.”

“I’m a gambler, a farmboy, and I’m here to take command of your bloody army!”

“I’m no lord. I’ve more respect for myself than that.”

“Burn me, if we’re going to do this thing, let’s do it. Dovie’andi se tovya sagain.”

“Do you have any idea how long it takes to dig graves for twenty-three oak trees?”

“Comadrin wrote, ‘Attack on ground where your enemy believes you will not, from an unexpected direction at an unexpected time. Defend where your enemy believes you are not, and when he believes you will run. Surprise is the key to victory, and speed is the key to surprise. For the soldier, speed is life.’”

“What is too absurd to believe is believed because it is too absurd to be a lie.”

“The lion sword, the dedicated spear, she who sees beyond. Three on the boat, and he who is dead yet lives. The great battle done, but the world not done with battle. The land divided by the return, and the guardians balance the servants. The future teeters on the edge of a blade.”

“Death rides on my shoulder… Death walks in my footsteps. I am death.”

“By the look of you, Nynaeve, I could almost think you were angry, but I know you have such a sweet disposition people ask you to dabble your fingers in their tea.”

“We are going to tickle some Aes Sedai under the chin, rescue a mule, and put a snip-nosed girl on the Lion Throne. Oh, yes. That’s Aviendha. Don’t look at her crosswise, or she’ll try to cut your throat and probably slit her own by mistake.”

“We are always more afraid than we wish to be, but we can always be braver than we expect.”

“Now. When the poor blind fool they’ve chosen out for their Amyrlin gets here, I will do the talking. She can’t be very bright, or they’d never have been able to shove her into the job…”

“A fool moans when fortune takes him down, and it takes a true fool to moan when fortune takes him up.”

“Kneel and swear to the Lord Dragon… or you will be knelt.”

“I forget nothing, Aes Sedai… I said six could come, but I count nine. I said you would be on an equal footing with the Tower emissaries, and for bringing nine, you will be. They are on their knees, Aes Sedai. Kneel!”