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“She’s not a woman, Talmanes… She’s an Aes Sedai. Don’t think of her as a woman.”

“You’re Aes Sedai… I figured you… you know, saidared it.”

“But your soul is not Brown. I can see it. Your soul is of a pure white, Verin… Like the Light itself.”

“Because each time we live, we get to love again.”

“Just because a man marries someone doesn’t mean he suddenly becomes bloody nobility.”

“Al dival, al kiserai, al mashi! For light, glory, and love!”

“The Golden Crane flies for Tarmon Gai’don.”

“Of course. I would like to ride alone with you. May I?”

“Catching badgers… Bloody hard to do, you know, particularly on short notice.”

“Small things were important. Seconds were small things, and if you heaped enough of those on top of one another, they became a man’s life.”

“For a gleeman, you seem to leave out most of the heroic parts of the things I do… At least you mentioned the hat.”

“If you wish, you may call me Rand Sedai. I am, so far as I know, the only male Aes Sedai still alive who was properly raised but who never turned to the Shadow.”

“You wished to come in and dance with the Dragon Reborn, Cadsuane. I am what I need to be. Be comforted—you face the Forsaken, but have one as ancient as they at your side.”

“Bloody ashes, woman. This isn’t a metaphor for anything! It’s just boots.”

“And Matrim Cauthon to bloody even the odds.”

“I beat you, you crusty boot-leavings! I, Matrim Cauthon, survived your traps! Ha!”

“And you gave me the way out! Chew on that bitterness for lunch, you flaming, burning, misbegotten liars!”

“All men are ignorant, Aes Sedai.”

“The nature of the world is that no man may know everything.”

“We’ll remember those who fell, and we’ll tell our children how we stood when the clouds turned black and the world started to die. We’ll tell them we stood shoulder to shoulder, and there was just no space for the Shadow to squeeze through.”