"When an Aes Sedai went out into the world and vanished, as sometimes happened, the first thought was always the Whitecloaks. The Children called Aes Sedai Darkfriends and claimed that touching the One Power was blasphemy punishable by death, a sentence they were all too willing to carry out. No one could understand why they had come to help defend Tar Valon. No one among the Accepted, at least" (Practice 60).

"Then she saw the cluster of horsemen at the foot of the bridge, nie or ten of them, staring at the city walls. Why the trumpets had gone silent no longer seemed so worrisome. The riders' burnished breastplates and helmets shone like silver, and they all wore long white cloaks, spread across their mounts' cruppers [...] As she had suspected, a flaring golden sun was embroidered on the left breast of each of those cloaks. Children of the Light. And they dared to block traffic on one of Tar Valon's bridges?" (Leaving the Tower 72).

"Where there was one group of Whitecloaks, there might be another [...] A dagger would not be much use against a Whitecloak's arrow" (Leaving the Tower 73).

"Niall, Lord Captain Commander of the Children of the Light, had the command today [of the Great Coalition]" (Entering Home 174).

"Only a handful knew war as well as Niall. Which meant that this particular war [Aiel War] might very well end this day" (Entering Home 174).