Women do not become exhausted, they only exhaust others. - Robert Jordan

How people see you first is what they hold hardest in their minds. It is the way of the world. You can step down from a throne], and even if you behave like a farmer in a pigsty, some part in each of them will remember that you did descend from a throne. But if they see only a young man first, a country man, they will resent him stepping up to his throne later, whatever his right, whatever his power.

A shaping stone, to make us; a testing ground, to prove our worth; and a punishment for the sin.

The Wheel weaves as the Wheel wills, and we are only the thread of the Pattern.