"'They would try something if they could, I've not doubt--they would love to strike at the Tower--but Eamon Valda won't move openly without orders from the Lord Captain Commander, and Pedron Niall will not strike unless he thinks we're injured. He knows our strength too well to be foolish. For a thousand years the Whitecloaks have been like that'" (Seeds of Shadow 30).

"'[Valda] has no more than five hundred men close to Tar Valon, girl. He sent the rest away weeks ago, to cause trouble elsewhere'" (Sos 30).

"Dain Bornhald tossed back his white cloak, with its flaring golden sun on the breast, and raised the stiff leather tube of a looking glass to his eye" (Seeds of Shadow 31).

"The hard-faced man [Child Ivon] who had appeared at his shoulder stood rigid, staring straight ahead from under a conical helmet" (SoS 31).

"[Hundredman] Farran, a bearded boulder of a man yet light on his feet for all his height and width, stood glaring at all seven equally" (SoS 31).

"To root out Darkfriends, of course, and spread the Light; that went without saying. But close to half a legion on Andoran soil without permission--the order risked much if word of it reached the Queen in Caemlyn"(SoS 32).

"Lucellin is making certain no one slips off" (SoS 33).

'"The same rumor claims the Whitecfloaks are after some Darkfriend with yellow eyes, too'" (Rumors 163)

"[Min] examined the book. The Way of the Light, by Lothair Mantelar. Opening it, she read at random. 'Therefore abjure all pleasure, for goodness is a pure abstract, a perfect crystalline ideal which is obscured by base emotion. Pamper not the flesh. Flesh is weak but spirit is strong; flesh is useless where spirit is strong. Right thought is drowned in sensation, and right action hindered by passions. Take all joy from rightness, and rightness only.' It seemed to be dry nonsense" (Deceptions 197).

"'[Lothair Mantelar] was a great man,' Galad said firmly. 'A philosopher of noble ideals. If the Children of the Light have sometimes been . . . excessive . . . since his day, it does not change that'" (Deceiptions 198).

"'[The Whitecloaks] would not try to cross the bridges if I left them unwatched entirely. They would be afraid of a trap'"(Deceiptions 203).

"A man who ran with wolves had to be a Darkfriend. Maybe one or both was with the Whitecloaks here" (Homecoming 331).

"'Whitecloaks don't need much to decide somebody is guilty. They are not pleasant people" (Homecoming 333).

"The Whitecloaks protecting the Two Rivers? It was almost enough to make him laugh" (Homecoming 333).

"'The Children caught Owein crossing an open field. I felt every arrow that struck him until he died. I felt him die. Had I been there, I could have defended him, and myself, with the Power. But I cannot use it for revenge. The Oaths do not permit it. The Children are very nearly as vile as men can be, short of Darkfriends, but they are not Darkfriends, and for that reason they are safe from the Power except self-defense'" (Assurances 347).

"'Inform the Seeker that if he wishes to move his people, they will move south'" (Assurances 353).

"The sight of his own camp brought a moment of pride to Bornhald, the long neat rows of wedge-roofed white tents, the picket lines for the horses precisely arrayed" (Assurances 353).

"[Dain] Bornhald hated Aes Sedai, meddling with the One Power as if Breaking the World once was not enough. They would do it again if they were not stopped" (Assurances 353).

"'And who are the dead?" Bornhald asked quietly.
"'Child Joelin and Child Gomanes...'" (A 354).

"Fifty of the Children around him, in the middle of Watch Hill, and no one had notice the pair [of Gray Men] with their daggers" (A 355).

"'Whitecloaks don't need much, Master al'Seen. If you don't bow and scrape and walk wide of them, you must be a Darkfriend. If you don't say what they want, think what they want, you must be a Darkfriend'" (Questions to be Asked 366).

"The Whitecloak encampment stretched out at the foot of Watch Hill like a village itself. Hundreds of men, some armored, moved among long, straight rows of white tents, with lines of horses, five deep, staked out to east and west. Animals being unsaddled and curried indicated patrols finishing their day, while a double column of maybe a hundred mounted men, pristine and precise, trailed off toward the Waterwood at a brisk walk, lances all at the same angle. At intervals around the encampment white-cloaked guards marched up and down, lances shouldered like spears, burnished helmets flashing in the sinking sun" (A New Weave in the Pattern 376, 377).

"But Carridin and his few hundred soldiers had power of a sort in Tanchico, where any kind of authority seemed to be lacking most of the time" (Hidden Faces 432).

"'King Andric [of Tarabon] wishes the Children of the Light to aid in restoring order in the city. We do not often let ourselves become involved in the internal affairs of nations.' Not openly. 'Certainly I cannot remember such a request. I do not know what the Lord Captain Commander will say.' Pedron Niall would say to do what was needed and make sure the Taraboners knew that they owed a debt to the Children, make sure they paid it in full" (Hidden Faces 433).

"As far as the people of Tarabon were concerned, the Children would have the blame for the inevitable killings, not the King, or the army of Tarabon. ..And the King and Panarch of Tarabon would both dangle on strings Carridin could hand to Pedron Niall to do with as he pleased" (HF 434).

"'I have heard that Emond's Field is closed to the Children, yes? Truly a village of the Shadow if it is closed to the Children of the Light'" (The Tinker's Sword 509).

"'I arrest you as a Darkfriend. you will be taken to Amador, and there tried under the Dome of Truth'" (TTS 511).

"The farther Whitecloaks began spreading out in a gleaming line under shouted orders from [Farran] a fellow as big in his armor as Master Luhhan, sliding lances into holders along their saddles, unlimbering short horsebows" (TTS 511).

"'But I thought you might like to hear that the Children of the Light surrounded the Panarch's Palace this morning. The streets are beginning to buzz over it. It seems the Lady Amathera is to be invested as Panarch tomorrow" (Veils 522).

"'The real problem is to reach her, whatever her situation. Jaichim Carridin has five hundred Whitecloaks around the palace like fisher-birds around the docks'" (Revelations in Tanchico).

Chapter 14: Custom of Mayene; 30: Beyond the Oak