Knife of Dreams (The Wheel of Time, #11)

by Robert Jordan

Sometimes what is bloody impossible is only bloody impossible until the first woman does it.

Thieves are always the most careful of their purses.”

Too many sisters forgot the small courtesies to those beneath them. Small courtesies were the lubricant of daily life.

Silently, she prayed. May the Light illumine me all of my days, and may I shelter in the Creator’s hand in the sure and certain hope of salvation and rebirth.

“I think I’ll keep this as a memento,” he said, rolling the fat gold coin across the back of his fingers. “To remind me that even the luckiest man in the world can lose.”

A spy who was known could be kept from learning anything they should not, and you could make sure they learned exactly what you wanted them to.