The Path of Daggers (The Wheel of Time, #8)

by Robert Jordan

Aviendha had grown up around dangerous men, but never one to match Aan’allein. Had death been a man, she would have been him.

No; she was Egwene al’Vere, and whatever the secret histories would say of her faults and virtues, the Light only knew, but they would be hers, not copies of some other woman’s.

Being in love with a man seemed to consist largely of a great many irritating admissions to yourself!

“The Dragon Reborn is a man, Fedwin,” she said. “And like any man, he’s sulking because he thinks a woman doesn’t want to see him again.”