The Wheel of Time
“The Wheel of Time weaves the Pattern of Ages, and the lives are the wires that she weaves. Nobody can know how the wire of his own life will be weaved inside the Pattern, or how the wire of a nation will be weaved. She gave us the Rupture of the World, the Exile, the Stone, and the Longing, and gave us back the landings before we all died. Sometimes i think the reason that you humas are the way you are is because your wires are too short…”
-Loial, The Wheel of Time, The Eye of the World