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"My mother says men are different from us. She says we want to be in love, but only with the one we want; a man needs to be in love, but he will love the first woman to tie a string to his heart. - Egwene, speaking to Elayne"
"Never prod at a woman unless you must. She will kill you faster than a man and for less reason, even if she weeps over it after."
"Nobody tells us how to be men. We just are."
"Tonight you will eat fish. Tomorrow, you may die."
"I always get what I want in the end. And I think I want...ornamental ironwork. For the windows of my bedchamber."
"A fool puts her hand into a hollow tree without finding out what's inside first."
"When the honey's out of the comb, there's no putting it back."
"Better to face the bear than run from it."
"You cannot please everyone. You cannot soothe everyone."
"First things first; take care of what can be done now before worrying too long over what might never be."
"A weeping woman is a bucket with no bottom."
"At my age, if I make it up, it's still an old saying."
"Kneel and swear to the Lord Dragon, or you will be knelt."
"When a woman says she will obey you, of her own will, it is time to sleep lightly and watch your back."
"The best lie is often one too ridiculous to be taken for a lie."
"We rode on the winds of the rising storm, We ran to the sounds of the thunder. We danced among the lightning bolts, and tore the world asunder."
"Whether the bear beats the wolf or the wolf beats the bear, the rabbit always loses."
"If you can't hide what you are going to do, do it so everybody thinks you are a fool."
"No man should have another man's voice in his head."
"Women do not become exhausted they only exhaust others."