- "Ten years! You pitiful fool! This war has not lasted ten years, but since the beginning of time. You and I have fought a thousand battles with the turning of the Wheel, a thousand times a thousand, and we will fight until time dies and the Shadow is triumphant!"
- Elan Morin Tedronai to Lews Therin Telamon, prologue TEOTW.
- "You cannot escape so easily, Dragon. It is not done between us. It will not be done until the end of time."
- Elan Morin Tedronai to the recently deceased Lews Therin Telamon, prologue TEOTW.
- "And it came to pass in those days, as it had come before and would come again, that the Dark lay heavy on the land and weighed down the hearts of men, and the green things failed, and hope died. And men cried out to the Creator, saying, O Light of the Heavens, Light of the World, let the Promised One be born of the mountain, according to the prophecies, as he was in ages past and will be in ages to come. Let the Prince of the Morning sing to the land that green things will grow and the valleys give forth lambs. Let the arm of the Lord of the Dawn shelter us from the Dark, and the great sword of justice defend us. Let the Dragon ride again on the winds of time. (from Charal Drianaan te Calamon, The Cycle of the Dragon. Author unknown, the Fourth Age)"
- Framing Commentary, prologue TEOTW.
- "One of the Prophecies says that the Stone of Tear will never fall until the People of the Dragon come to the Stone. Another says the Stone will never fall till the Sword That Cannot Be Touched is wielded by the Dragon's hand."
- Thom Merrilin to Rand al'Thor, Choices, TEOTW.
- "The strings that move you have been centuries weaving. Your father was chosen by the White Tower, like a stallion roped and led to his business. Your mother was no more than a brood mare to their plans. And those plans lead to your death...the Amyrlin will use you until you are consumed, just as Davian was used, and Yurian Stonebow, and Guaire Amalasan, and Raolin Darksbane. Just as Logain is being used. Used until there is nothing left of you...The ashes of many like you are scattered on the slopes of Dragonmount."
- Elan Morin Tedronai to Rand al'Thor, The Stag and Lion, TEOTW.
- "I stood at Lews Therin Kinslayer's shoulder when he did the deed that named him. It was I who told him to kill his wife, and his children, and all his blood, and every living person who loved him or whom he loved. It was I who gave him the moment of sanity to know what he had done...A thousand years later I sent the Trollocs ravening south, and for three centuries they savaged the world. Those blind fools in Tar Valon said I was beaten in the end, but the Second Covenant, the Covenant of the Ten Nations, was shattered beyond remaking, and who was left to oppose me then? I whispered in Artur Hawkwing's ear, and the length and breadth of the land Aes Sedai died. I whispered again, and the High King sent his armies across the Aryth Ocean, across the World Sea, and sealed two dooms. The doom of his dream of one land and one people, and a doom yet to come. At his deathbed I was there when his councilors told him only Aes Sedai could save his life. I spoke, and he ordered his councilors to the stake. I spoke, and the High King's last words were to cry that Tar Valon must be destroyed."
- Elan Morin Tedronai to Rand al'Thor, The Stag and Lion, TEOTW.
- "When you're all in a group? Sparks swirling around you, thousands of them, and a big shadow, darker than midnight...The sparks are trying to fill the shadow, and the shadow is trying to swallow the sparks."
- Min Farshaw to Rand al'Thor, Strangers and Friends, TEOTW.
- "She loves you, too, but she's not for you, or you for her. Not the way you both want...When I look at her, I see the same as when I look at...Mistress Alys...She won't refuse it."
- Min Farshaw to Rand al'Thor about Egwene al'Vere, Strangers and Friends, TEOTW.
- "Master Andra has seven ruined towers around his head, and a babe in a cradle holding a sword, and..."
- Min Farshaw to Rand al'Thor about al'Lan Mandragoran, Strangers and Friends, TEOTW.
- "The strongest images around the gleeman are a man--not him--juggling fire, and the White Tower"
- Min Farshaw to Rand al'Thor about Thom Merrilin, Strangers and Friends, TEOTW.
- "The strongest things I see about the big, curly-haired fellow are a wolf, and a broken crown, and trees flowering all around him."
- Min Farshaw to Rand al'Thor about Perrin Aybara, Strangers and Friends, TEOTW.
- "And the other one--a red eagle, an eye on a balance scale, a dagger with a ruby, a horn, and a laughing face"
- Min Farshaw to Rand al'Thor about Mat Cauthon, Strangers and Friends, TEOTW.
- "A sword that isn't a sword, a golden crown of laurel leaves, a beggar's staff, you pouring water on sand, a bloody hand and a white-hot iron, three women standing over a funeral bier with you on it, black rock wet with blood--...Most of all, I see lightning around you, some striking at you, some coming out of you...You and I will meet again."
- Min Farshaw to Rand al'Thor about him, Strangers and Friends, TEOTW.
- "He had been a little boy again, carrying Tam's sword and with a cradle strapped to his back, running through empty streets, pursued by Mordeth, who shouted that he only wanted his hand. And there had been an old man who watched them and cackled with mad laughter the whole time."
- A dream of Rand al'Thor, Shadow's Waiting, TEOTW.
- "Leafblighter means to blind the Eye of the World, Lost One. He means to slay the Great Serpent. Warn the People, Lost One. Sightburner comes. Tell them to stand ready for He Who Comes With the Dawn. Tell them..."
- Told by a Far Dareis Mai to a Mahdi of a Tuatha'an caravan, repeated to Elyas Machera by Raen, The Traveling People, TEOTW.
- "The Dragon is one with the land, and the land is one with the Dragon"
- From a dream of Rand al'Thor, The Dark Waits, TEOTW.
- "From this day Andor marches toward pain and division. The Shadow has yet to darken to its blackest, and I cannot see if the Light will come after. Where the world has wept one tear, it will weep thousands...Pain and division come to the whole world, and this man stands at the heart of it."
- Elaida a'Roihan to Morgase Trakand and Rand al'Thor, The Web Tightens, TEOTW.
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