Towers of Midnight (The Wheel of Time, #13)

by Robert Jordan

What to do about Elayne? Women were troublesome. Aes Sedai were worse. Queens were the worst of the lot. And she was all bloody three.

“The Shadow does not need her to find me, Min, nor will it ever again. All its eyes are fixed directly upon me, and will be until I blind them.”

You never could tell what a man would do when he was drunk, even if that man was your own self.

“The axe only kills,” Perrin said. “But the hammer can either create or kill. That is the difference.”

“I should think you have good reason for that wariness.” She looked away from him. “But take care. The most displeasing of events in our lives are sometimes for our good.”