Desmоnd

"Sincere praise of Elayne Trakand that would make her haters hate her even more:

"People who prefer Elayne respect Princess Kate. And those who like Egwene admire Meghan Markle"

"What I love about Elayne is that at first she looks and feels like a literal Disney princess — and then it turns out she can spin up a Total Strategy so ruthless that P.W. Botha himself would have recognized a kindred spirit in her."

"The sense of duty that drives Elayne is simply incomprehensible to plebeians".

"While the White Tower runs like a lumbering bureaucratic state apparatus, squabbling over the ethics of channeling, Elayne quietly built an unregulated personal DARPA in Caemlyn".