A Secret Spoken Finds Wings.

There Were Many Good Years. Good Decades, Good Centuries. We Believed We Were Living In Paradise. Perhaps That Was Our Downfall. We Wanted Our Lives To Be Perfect, So We Ignored Imperfections. Problems Were Magnified Through Inattention And War Might Have Become Inevitable If The Bore Hadn't Ever Made.

It Was Easier To Be Brave When Someone Needed Your Protection.

We Are Always More Afraid Than We Wish To Be, But We Can Always Be Braver Than We Expect.

Two Days' Hunger Made A Fine Sauce For Anything.

I Had Long Wondered," Lan Said To Tam. "about The Man Who Had Given Rand That Heron-marked Blade. I Wondered If He Had Truly Earned It. Now I Know." Lan Raised His Own Sword In Salute.