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He came like the wind, like the wind touched everything, and like the wind was gone. -from The Dragon Reborn. By Loial, son of Arent son of Halan, the Fourth Age.
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Not thinking about a thorn doesn't make it hurt your foot less.
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I have never known anyone else," Egwene said to him, "who will work so hard to avoid hard work, Matrim Cauthon.
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All was shattered, and all but memory lost, and one memory above all others, of him who brought the Shadow and the Breaking of the World. And him they named Dragon.
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From the time an Aiel boy becomes a man he will not sing anything but battle chants, or their dirge for the slain. I have heard them singing over their dead, and over those they have killed. That song is one to make the stones weep.
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Lan told me once that Malkier lives so long as one man wears the hadori in pledge that he will fight the Shadow, so long as one woman wears the ki'sain in pledge that she will send her sons to fight the shadow. I wear the ki'sain, Master Aldragoran. My husband wears the hadori. So do you. Will Lan Mandragoran ride to the last battle alone?
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What is too absurd to believe is believed because it is too absurd to be a lie.
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I trust you like a brother. Until the day you betray me. You have a parole for what you've done, in return for your teaching, and a better bargain than you deserve, but the day you turn against me, I will tear it up and bury it with you.
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Waiting turns men into bears in a barn, and women into cats in a sack.
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May you shelter in the palm of the Creator's hand, and may the last embrace of the mother welcome you home.
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Before I knew what was happening, I had a fistful of spears around my neck like a collar. I could have shaved myself with one sneeze.
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Almost dead yesterday, maybe dead tomorrow, but alive, gloriously alive, today. — Mat Cauthon
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But she was a fount of Power, drawn from deep within the fluted rod in her hands, channeled through a group of novices and Accepted hiding in the room behind, bound to her in circle. Egwene was part of the fires that burned in the Tower, bloodying the sky with their flames, painting the air with their smoke. She almost seemed not a being of flesh, but one of pure Power, sending judgment to those who had dared bring war to the Tower itself. Blasts of lightning stormed from the sky, the clouds churning above. Fire sprouted from her hands.
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The only man completely at peace is a man without a navel.
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Tuon's eyes snapped open, and despite the dim light, she focused directly on Mat. She saw the knife in his hand, ready to throw. Then she looked over her shoulder.
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[Aviendha] didn't trust change. It couldn't be spotted or stabbed; it was more silent than any scout, more deadly than any assassin. No, she'd never trust it, but she would accept it.
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We hear less, Davram Bashere, but perhaps sometimes we see more.
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Thus is our treaty written; thus is agreement made. Thought is the arrow of time; memory never fades. What was asked is given; the price is paid.
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Hope is like a piece of string when you're drowning; it just isn't enough to get you out by itself.
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There is an old saying here in the Borderlands: "Better to have one woman on your side than ten men."
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What happened with the pond? Surely the water is the point of the story.
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I am going to defeat them, Taim. All of them. They think they can tear everything down. It's always tearing down, never building up! I'm going to build something, leave something behind. Whatever happens, I will do that! I'll defeat the Dark One. And cleanse saidin, so men don't have to fear going mad, and the world doesn't have to fear men channeling. I'll...
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When you leap from a cliff, it is too late for anything but holding to your courage. And hoping there's a haywain at the bottom to land in.
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He recalled countering Sammael's last move with something particulary nasty, but he could not pull the memory to the surface. Not balefire. "Mustn't use that. Threatens the fabric of the Pattern. Not even for Ilyena? I would burn the world and use my soul for tinder to hear her laugh again."'
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The best way to avoid trouble is to make sure no one wants to trouble you.
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Yet would we die as some have done: Beating a way for the rising sun.
Arna Bontemps
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Born:
October 17, 1948
Died:
September 16, 2007
(aged 58)
Bio:
James Oliver Rigney, Jr., better known by his pen name Robert Jordan, was an American author of epic fantasy. He is best known for The Wheel of Time series, which comprises 14 books and a prequel novel.
Known for:
The Eye of the World (1990)
The Dragon Reborn (1991)
A Memory of Light
The Great Hunt (1990)
The Gathering Storm
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