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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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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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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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What happened with the pond? Surely the water is the point of the story.
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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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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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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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We hear less, Davram Bashere, but perhaps sometimes we see more.
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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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I know how to take a man out of his miseries. Give him a swift kick, or else get him drunk and find him a pr-...
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There were many good years. Good decades, good centuries. We believed we were living in paradise. Perhaps that was our downfall. We wanted our lives to be perfect, so we ignored imperfections. Problems were magnified through inattention and war might have become inevitable if the Bore hadn't ever made.
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The road ahead of you is long, dark, and, I very much fear, bloodstained. I also very much fear that you will take us all down that road. But you must live to reach the end of it.
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I thought you saidar-ed it.
At the end of time, when the many become one, the last storm shall gather its angry winds to destroy a land already dying. And at its center, the blind man shall stand upon his own grave. There he shall see again, and weep for what has been wrought.
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It is better to guide people than try to hammer them into a line.
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"A bloody hero. Thom, if I ever look like acting the hero again, you kick me."
"And what would you have done differently?"
"Just kick me!"
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Men always seem to refuse to admit they are sick until they're sick enough to make twice as much work for women. Then they claim they're well too soon, with the same result.
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Any fool knows men and women think differently at times, but the biggest difference is this. Men forget, but never forgive; women forgive, but never forget.
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There was a price to be paid for any decision he made. There was a price for who he was. Other people paid it.
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Advice! Nobody tells us how to be men. We just are." "That is probably why you make such a bad job of it.- Perrin and Egwene
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He strains to hear a whisper who refuses to hear a shout.
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The Wheel of Time and the wheel of a man's life turn alike without pity or mercy.
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If you plan for the worst, all surprises are pleasant.
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A Myrddraal has less cunning than a woman, and a Trolloc fights with more honor. And a goat has more sense.
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Even a queen stubs her toe, but a wise woman watches the path.
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An Aiel, Hal, can hide in a fold in the ground you wouldn't even stumble over.
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Yet would we die as some have done: Beating a way for the rising sun.
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Robert Jordan
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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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