It Was Easier To Trip A Fool

The Nobles And The Noble Houses Maneuver For Advantage. They Do Things They Think Will Help Them, Or Hurt And Enemy, Or Both. Usually, It's All Done In Secrecy, Or If Not, They Try To Make It Seem As If They're Doing Something Other Than What They Are.

When You Saw Me With A Dagger In Hand - As If To Throw At You - You Didn't Call For Your Guards. You Didn't Fear I Was Here To Kill You. You Looked Over Your Shoulder To See What I Was Aiming At. That's The Most Loving Gesture I Think A Man Could Receive From A Woman. Unless You'd Like To Sit On My Knee For A While.

And His Paths Shall Be Many, And Who Shall Know His Name, For He Shall Be Beorn Among Us Many Times, In Many Guises, As He Has Been And Ever Will Be, Time Without End. His Coming Shall Be Like The Sharp Edge Of The Plow, Turning Our Lives In Furrows Form Out Of The Places Where We Lie In Our Silence. The Breaker Of Binds; The Forger Of Chains. The Maker Of Futures; The Unshaper Of Destiny. -from Commentaries On The Prophecies Of The Dragon, By Jurith Dorine, Right Hand To The Queen Of Almoren, 742 Ab, The Third Age

The Wheel Of Time And The Wheel Of A Man's Life Turn Alike Without Pity Or Mercy.

These?" Mat Said, Gesturing To His Coat And Shirt. "i Really Have No Idea. They Were Just Down There. I'm Completely Baffled." He Had Been Very Pleased To Learn That Seanchan Guards-for All Their Stoic Expressions And Too-straight Backs-responded To Bribes Like Other People.