The Wheel of Time Season 2 Quotes
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1. A Taste of Solitude
The Dark One: Let me guess. There’s something outside. A monster, perhaps? Come on. A lot of people call me a monster too, you know. Along with a litany of other unflattering names. Father of Lies. Betrayer of Hope. Forsaken. Do you know why they call me and the other Chosen such hideous things?
Niko: No.
The Dark One: Because if they called me what I really am, no one would be afraid. After all, how do you prove you’re not a monster? How do you prove that the things you’re doing are good or evil? Right or wrong?
Egwene Al’Vere: Being a novice is a rite of passage. Every single Aes Sedai has done it, even the Amyrlin. It builds character.
Nynaeve al’Meara: I have enough character.
'Everyone has a choice. And every choice has a consequence.' - Moiraine Damodred (The Wheel of Time) Click To Tweet
Alanna Mosvani: You have two capable hands. It will be easier if you use them.
Egwene Al’Vere: I didn’t come here for easy.
Nynaeve al’Meara: No one should have that much power.
Alanna Mosvani: You can either embrace what you are, or fear it. Egwene is strong, stronger than most. But you, you have ten times that power, Nynaeve, whether you want it or not.
'Remember, things are messy before they are perfect. Nothing worthwhile is neat and tidy.' - Alanna Mosvani (The Wheel of Time) Click To Tweet
Lan Mandragoran: [referring to Moiraine] The bond made things easier. It was like a friend walking along with us, chatting away so we never had to. She’s tired, she’s hungry, she’s angry, she’s afraid. And now silence.
Tomas: You don’t strike me as a man who’s afraid of a little silence.
2. Strangers and Friends
'That's the funny thing about people. When things get bad, we want to be alone. The truth is, that's when we need each other the most.' - Selene (The Wheel of Time) Click To Tweet
Elyas Machera: Useful to know the difference between vision and reality. You don’t get lost so easily.
Nynaeve al’Meara: Men who can channel are not a disease.
'History needn't be written when it's being wrought.' - Verin Mathwin (The Wheel of Time) Click To Tweet
Liandrin Guirale: Using the One Power, it slows the aging process, lets Aes Sedai live for hundreds of years. We can do more than just react. We can change the course of history itself.
Mat Cauthon: You should at least knock. I might have been naked.
Liandrin Guirale: Oh, my heart flutters at the thought.
'What's broken cannot always be healed.' - Moiraine Damodred (The Wheel of Time) Click To Tweet
Liandrin Guirale: Sweetcakes. I’m feeling generous.
Mat Cauthon: Are they poisoned?
Liandrin Guirale: If I wanted you dead, boy, I could think of far more creative options.
3. What Might Be
Sheriam Bayanar: [to Nynaeve] Whatever awaits you, you must face it with nothing but your wits. Not even the One Power will be available to you inside the Arches. The way back will come but once.
Nynaeve al’Meara: [after making it through the Arces the first time] It was so real. Was it real?
Sheriam Bayanar: No one knows. Some come out bearing the actual wounds taken inside. Others are cut to the bone inside and come back without a mark.
'Your grief is your own. Face it, and in time, you will grow stronger.' - Sheriam Bayanar (The Wheel of Time) Click To Tweet
Liandrin Guirale: Every woman’s fears are her own property. Do not burden us with them.
Nynaeve al’Meara: If this test is about turning my back on the people I love, the people who trust me to take care of them, if being an Aes Sedai means trusting the Tower over everything and everyone else, I won’t. Never. Keep your ring. I’m not your sister.
Liandrin Guirale: If you leave this room, you will never be allowed to return.
'None of us can hide from what we are.' - Logain Ablar (The Wheel of Time) Click To Tweet
Egwene Al’Vere: You can’t leave. I need you.
Nynaeve al’Meara: You don’t. I came here for you, Egwene. To protect you. But the truth is, you don’t need my protection. I can see that now. I guess I learned something here after all.
4. Daughter of the Night
Rand al’Thor: Sorry.
Selene: You say that one more time and it’s going to lose all meaning.
Alanna Mosvani: I don’t think you’re going to kill yourself. Your bond wasn’t ripped from you. She took it. So have you decided what you’re going to do now?
Lan Mandragoran: Have I worn out my welcome?
'You want to know how we rule this world without collapsing from the pain and loss? You find a piece of this world that belongs to you and you hold on to it. And then, when it's finally gone, you find another.' - Liandrin Guirale Click To Tweet
Alanna Mosvani: Nynaeve is going into the Arches. The fastest anyone’s done since Cadsuane Sedai. I suspect it’s only a matter of time until she’s looking for a Warder herself.
Lan Mandragoran: I’m not looking to repeat my failures.
Alanna Mosvani: I wish you could’ve known Moiraine before.
Lan Mandragoran: Before what?
Alanna Mosvani: Something happened to her. About twenty years ago now. A year or two before she bonded you. One day she was simply changed. The way water becomes ice, and you look at it and wonder how it was ever water before.
Lan Mandragoran: Was she happier, then?
Alanna Mosvani: I don’t know. I don’t know if she’s ever been happy.
'People don't understand that we quiet ones are quiet because the conversation's always playing out in our own heads.' - Ihvon (The Wheel of Time) Click To Tweet
Logain Ablar: I should kill you where you stand.
Moiraine Damodred: You tried that once.
5. Damane
Rand al’Thor: [referring to Lanfear] Why are we running? You killed her.
Moiraine Damodred: That wound will barely slow her down. Hurry!
Perrin Aybara: My eyes. Will they change like yours permanently?
Elyas Machera: In time. Soon, if you’re lucky. Man-eyes can’t pick out deer in tall grass, can’t see cliffs ahead at night. Useless. Like everything else we’re born with.
'If something is upsetting you, or making you afraid, you ask yourself one simple question. Is it true? Can you know, beyond any doubt, that it's true?' - Anvaere Damodred (The Wheel of Time) Click To Tweet
Perrin Aybara: You must miss civilization sometimes.
Elyas Machera: I miss beer.
Perrin Aybara: Not much fun drinking alone.
Elyas Machera: I’m never alone. Now, neither are you.
Perrin Aybara: We’re going the opposite way. You lied to me.
Elyas Machera: Better than being dead, or a slave.
Perrin Aybara: Oh, like my friends?
Elyas Machera: They’re not your pack. Neither are the humans from the Two Rivers. Neither was your wife.
Perrin Aybara: No, no, no. You don’t know anything about my pack!
6. Eyes Without Pity
Renna: [to Egwene] You cannot hurt me. Any pain a sul’dam feels, her damane feels twice over. Even to death. Your first lesson. The second lesson. The a’dam cannot be removed. Not by you.
Lanfear: So? Are you going to scream and beg for your life? Try to seduce me? You knew this moment was coming, so what’s your game?
Rand al’Thor: What do you want, Lanfear?
Lanfear: Oh. Not Selene anymore? You of all people should know the importance of the name they choose, Lews Therin.
'What you're willing to do changes depending on what you're faced with.' - Alanna Mosvani (The Wheel of Time) Click To Tweet
Rand al’Thor: I can’t believe I trusted you.
Lanfear: What makes you think you can’t trust me?
Lanfear: You know, this is just what you did in your last life. You think it’s so noble, pushing everyone away. “Protecting the people you love”.
Rand al’Thor: You don’t know anything about me.
'If you want power, you take it.' - Logain Ablar (The Wheel of Time) Click To Tweet
Lanfear: [referring to Moiraine] She’s had you dancing on her strings this whole time.
Rand al’Thor: You know what? If you actually want me to trust you, then do something to earn it.
7. Daes Dae’mar
'We keep living these lives. Trying again and again. But for what? The Wheel turns and people hurt. It's a simple fact. And even with the freedom of death, we just come back, again and again.' - The Dark One (The Wheel of Time) Click To Tweet
Moiraine Damodred: Why are you here, Siuan?
Siuan Sanche: I’ve let you carry this burden for twenty years, love. You’ve given everything for it. From here on out, I row beside you.
Rand al’Thor: I left to protect the people I love.
Lan Mandragoran: Don’t be so selfish. You were born to protect this world. Every person in it. Not just the ones you love.
'There's one rule above all others for being a man. Whatever comes, you face it on your feet.' - Lan Mandragoran (The Wheel of Time) Click To Tweet
Siuan Sanche: Lan has prepared you, I see. What else did he tell you?
Rand al’Thor: That you aren’t exactly what you seem.
Siuan Sanche: Most people are not. In this world, it is wise to guard your truths, but not us. Not today.
Lanfear: I won’t lie, I expected you to be more impressive. Still, I love to be owed a favor.
Mat Cauthon: Is this a dream?
Lanfear: Oh, no. You’re very much awake.
'In this world, it is wise to guard your truths.' - Siuan Sanche (The Wheel of Time) Click To Tweet
Moiraine Damodred: I don’t know what you think you’ll gain from this.
Lan Mandragoran: Hopefully, everything we’ve lost.
Lan Mandragoran: I have a question for you. And I hope someday you’ll forgive me for asking it. After you were stilled by Ishamael, has there been a time, in all these months when you thought about ending it?
Moiraine Damodred: Killing myself?
'Life is a dream from which we all must wake before we can dream again.' - Aviendha (The Wheel of Time) Click To Tweet
Moiraine Damodred: [referring to killing herself] No, I didn’t. Not for one second. Because I know that protecting Rand, guiding him, that is the only thing that matters. More than me. More than you. More than anything.
Lan Mandragoran: That’s what I thought.
Moiraine Damodred: And this whole thing you’re doing with Siuan, it puts all of it, the Last Battle, the fate of the world, in jeopardy.
8. What Was Meant to Be'The only reason that I was able to say that you're not my equal, is that I've known one thing to be true since the first day we met. You have always been my better.' - Moiraine Damodred (The Wheel of Time) Click To Tweet
The Dark One: [flashback, 3000 years ago, in Old Tongue] This is our chance, Lews. To break the wheel, make it stop.
Lews Therin Telamon: You really think I’d do that? All the people we love would die.
The Dark One: They’ll die no matter what you do. So, go ahead. Kill me. And you and I can dance this dance again in our next lives.
The Dark One: I don’t want to do this again. I’m not going to kill you. They say you will be conscious, but not aware. Like a dream. They say this seal is so strong, not even I could break it.
Lews Therin Telamon: [flashback, to the Dark One, in Old Tongue] I know how much you hate being alive. And for that, I am so very, truly sorry, my friend. But I don’t want to do this again.
'Prophecies are just the lies of long-dead witches.' - Geofram Bornhald (The Wheel of Time) Click To Tweet
Lanfear: [after Lanfear throws Moiraine and Lan out of the Waygate] There are faster ways to Falme than this, even, but I can’t take all that dead weight with us.
Rand al’Thor: How can you think I’d ever trust you again?
Lanfear: I’m the only one who actually cares about you, Rand. Everyone else, Ishamael, Moiraine, they just care about what you can do. Come with me.
Rand al’Thor: Do I have any choice?
Lanfear: You know who I am. Now close your eyes.
The Dark One: We’re nowhere close to ready.
Lanfear: Listen to me. I know you. You will be putting this off for years. Each time saying, “Just one more piece to put in place.” You’re delaying the inevitable. It will either happen, or it won’t. No amount of time or planning will change that.
The Dark One: He’s not going to choose us, it’s too soon.
Lanfear: He’s ready.
'To see the darkest parts of yourself, to accept them, to embrace them, well, that's real strength.' - Padan Fain (The Wheel of Time) Click To Tweet
Lanfear: I told him that I’d help him kill you.
The Dark One: Will you?
Lanfear: If he’s going to join us, he needs to see that we aren’t all the same.
The Dark One: Why did I wake you?
Lanfear: Oh, sweetheart, it’s because you know you need me. I balance you.
The Dark One: And I you.