The Shadow Rising (The Wheel of Time, #4)

by Robert Jordan

You have made a place in my heart where I thought there was no room for anything else. You have made flowers grow where I cultivated dust and stones.

Life is uncertainty and struggle, choice and change; one who knew how her life was woven into the Pattern as well as she knew how a thread was laid into a carpet would have the life of an animal. If she did not go mad. Humankind is made for uncertainty, struggle, choice and change.”

a general can take care of the living or weep for the dead, but he cannot do both.”

The worst sin a general can commit, worse than blundering, worse than losing, worse than anything, is to desert the men who depend on him.”