"when you choose the fight, you must take the consequences, win or lose." - bain, in robert jordan's "the shadow rising"

"you will remember enough to know some things that must be, despised as they may be, and some that must not, cherished hopes that they are. this is the beginning of being called wise." - amys, in robert jordan's "the shadow rising"

"prophecy is no more than the sign of what people hope for. fulfilling the Prophecies will only bind you to a path..." - lanfear, in robert jordan's "the shadow rising"

"move first, be the hammer, not the nail." - moraine, in robert jordan's "the shadow rising"

"...how a nation was led as well as how it was governed, two very different things, but both necessary. and sometimes things had to be done for both that were worse than unpleasant, although the price of not doing them was worse still." - in robert jordan's "the shadow rising"

"confrontation was not her way when it could be avoided; it was better to guide people than try to hammer them into line." - in robert jordan's "the shadow rising"

"change. you know he brings change. it is wondering what change, and how, that makes us like children alone in the dark. since it must be, let it begin now." - rhuarc, in robert jordan's "the shadow rising"