“Something of a pattern had started to form and it was ugly.”

“Those clouds above formed a pattern that looked familiar. Black on white, white on black.It's the symbol, she realized with a start. The ancient symbol of the Aes Sedai.Under this sign...shall he conquer.”

“...for literature had always been a solace for him, something that the ugliness of facts could not spoil.”

“Christianity is not a sprint but an endurance run. Therefore it is not how we start the race that counts, but how we complete it. How we finish is determined by the choices we make, and those are often formed by patterns we develop along the way.”

“Awesome ends with me; but Ugly starts with u...”

“At the moment everything was being destroyed she had created that which was most difficult: she had not drawn something out of nothing (a meaningless act), but given to nothing, in its form of nothing, the form of something.”