“had my books been any worse I would not have been invited to Hollywood and if they had been any better I would not have come.”

“If I had not been a Shadowhunter, I would have had a future on the stage. I have no doubt I would have been greeted with acclaim.”

“If it had been any different, if I had been born just one minute later, or been in the wrong pace at the right time or vice versa, the life that I've lived and come to love would not exist. And that is a situation that I would not want to consider in the slightest.”

“If I had followed my better judgment always, my life would have been a very dull one.”

“If any of these women had been here instead of Nynaeve, the world would have ended.”

“But I think, personally, that it would be worse to have been alone all that time. Sure, maybe I would have protected my heart from some things, but would that really have been better? To hold myself apart because I was too scared that something might no be forever?”