“Once again, the wheel was turning; the time for rest was over.”

“There are no endings, and never will be endings, to the turning of the Wheel of Time. But it was an ending.”

“The Wheel of Time turns, and Ages come and pass, leaving memories that become legend. Legend fades to myth, and even myth is long forgotten when the Age that gave it birth comes again.”

“Once again she shuddered with the evidence that time was not passing, as she had just admitted, but that it was turning in a circle.”

“Gentile or JewO you who turn the wheel and look to windward,Consider Phlebas, who was once handsome and tall as you.”

“I used to analyze myself down to the last thread, used to compare myself with others, recalled all the smallest glances, smiles and words of those to whom I’d tried to be frank, interpreted everything in a bad light, laughed viciously at my attempts ‘to be like the rest’ –and suddenly, in the midst of my laughing, I’d give way to sadness, fall into ludicrous despondency and once again start the whole process all over again – in short, I went round and round like a squirrel on a wheel.”