"The camp lacked the precision he [Valda] preferred. The tents were clustered haphazardly wherever the limbs overhead grew thickest, the horses tethered close by rather than properly picketed. It was the sort of slackness that led to filth. Unwatched, the men would bury horse dung under a few shovels of dirt to be done with it quick, and dig latrines where they would not have to walk far in the cold. Any officer of his who allowed that would cease to be an officer, and learn firsthand how to use a shovel" (Glimmers 27).

"Ailron had been a fool, puffed up with old tales of glory brightened by age and new hope of winning real power to go with his crown. He refused to see the reality in front of his yees, and Ailron's Disaster had been the result. Valda had heart it named the Battle of Jeramel, but only by some of the bare handful of Amadician nobles who escaped, daed as poleaxed steers yet still trying mechanically to put the best face on events. He [valda] wondered what Ailron had called it when the Seanchan's tame witches began tearing his orderly ranks to bloody rags...A suitable death for a fool. [Valda], on the other hand, had over nine thousand of the Children gathered around him" (G 28).

"Questioners liked to work indoors" (G 29).

"Their [Hand of Light] faces might have been carved stone as they watched him approach. Neither offered more than a halfhearted salute. Not for a man without the shepherd's crook, even if he was Lord Captian Commander of the Children. One opened his mouth as if to questoin valda's purpose, but Valda walked by them and pushed open the rough door. At least they did not try to stop him. He would have killed them both, if they had" (G 29).

"At his entrance, Asunawa looked up from the crooked table where he was perusing a small book, one bony hand cupped around a steaming pweter cup that gave off the odor of spices" (G 29).

"Still, although most Children despised the Questioners, they held Asunawa in a strange esteem, as if his gray hair and gaunt martyr's face graced him with all the ideals of the Children of the Light" (G 29).

"Asunawa made no move to rise or reach for the white cloak folded across the table beside him. There was no sunflare on that, just the scarlet crook" (G 29).

"Valda thought it was Mantelar's The Way of the Light. Odd reading for the High Inquisitor. more suited to new recruits; those who could not read when they swore were taught so they could study Mantelar's words" (G 29).

"'My Lord High Inquisitor,' he said respectfully, 'the Council of the Anointed is here'" (G 31).

"Valda waited. Would the old fool continue to be stubborn with all ten surviving Lord Captain outside, mounted and ready to ride?" (G 31).

"'May I suggest once again, however, that Masema's view of Aes Sedia is very close to that of the Whitecloaks? In fact, identical. He would see every last sister, id he could. The Seanchan view is more...pragmatic...'" (The Forging of a Hammer 186).