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Always something new, always something I didn't expect, and sometimes it isn't horrible.
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Robert Jordan |
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I don't know. They could put up a warning sign or something. Hello. Welcome to Hindstrap. We will murder you in the night and eat your bloody face if you stay past sunset. Try the pies. Martna Maily makes them fresh daily.
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Robert Jordan |
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064df2b
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Your Royal Bloody Pain in My Back, We're bloody waiting here to talk to you, and we're getting angry perturbed. (That means angry.) Thom says that you're a queen now, but I figure that changes nothing, sense you acted like a queen all the time anyway. Don't forget that I carried halled your pretty little backside out of a hole in Tear, but you acted like a queen then, so I guess I don't know why I'm surprised now that you act like one when ..
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wheel-of-time
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Brandon Sanderson Robert Jordan |
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27b6df1
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What is too absurd to be believed is believed because it is too absurd to be a lie.
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truth
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Robert Jordan |
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708e78a
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Burn you, Nerim, that's a leg not a bloody side of beef!" "As my lord says," Nerim murmured. "My lord's leg is not a side of beef. Thank you, my lord, for instructing me."
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humor
nerim
rand
mat
robert
jordan
wheel-of-time
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Robert Jordan |
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3dcad92
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I always say, if you must mount the gallows, give a jest to the crowd, a coin to the hangman, and make the drop with a smile on your lips.
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death
smile
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Robert Jordan |
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6d5c0fc
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Relax, lad. Take life as it comes. Run when you have to, fight when you must, rest when you can.
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Robert Jordan |
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5f77968
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Loial, son of Arent, son of Halen, had secretly always wanted to be hasty.
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brandon-sanderson
wot
loial
robert-jordan
wheel-of-time
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Robert Jordan |
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1f4e7e9
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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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Robert Jordan |
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7110a38
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Violence harms the one who does it as much as the one who receives it. You could cut down a tree with an axe. The axe does violence to the tree, and escapes unharmed. Is that how you see it? Wood is soft compared to steel, but the sharp steel is dulled as it chops, and the sap of the tree will rust and pit it. The mighty axe does violence to the helpless tree, and is harmed by it. So it is with men, though the harm is in the spirit.
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Robert Jordan |
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e57fc72
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Two days' hunger made a fine sauce for anything.
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Robert Jordan |
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0b3e046
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Some men [...] choose to seek greatness, while others are forced to it. It is always better to choose than to be forced. A man who is forced is never completely his own master. He must dance on the strings of those who forced him.
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Robert Jordan |
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e3ea66d
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Whether the bear beats the wolf or the wolf beats the bear, the rabbit always loses.
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pity
insight
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Robert Jordan |
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571aaa2
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Come to think of it, an Aes Sedai would probably follow a man off a cliff, too, if only to explain to him - in detail - all the things he was doing incorrectly in the way he went about killing himself.
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women
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Robert Jordan |
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54c81ee
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A beautiful battle is one you don't have to fight
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red-hand
mat-cauthon
mat
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Robert Jordan |
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ed1e85e
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I will hate the man you choose because he is not me, and love him if he makes you smile. No woman deserves the sure knowledge of widow's black as her brideprice, you least of all.
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love
wheel-of-time
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Robert Jordan |
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22f9a50
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Women do not become exhausted they only exhaust others.
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Robert Jordan |
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6057cd4
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You read too much and understand too little.
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Robert Jordan |
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e4dfc7e
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Never think I have abandoned you. When the sun shines on you, it is my smile. When you hear the breeze stir through the apple blossoms, it is my whisper that I love you. My love is yours forever.
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perrin
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Robert Jordan |
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bd7f980
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I do not like odd things until I can understand them.
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Robert Jordan |
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8a24058
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The Empress will follow where you go," she said. "So she will," Mat said. "As I'll follow where she goes, I suppose. I hope that doesn't lead us in too many circles."
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Robert Jordan |
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6b76fc2
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If you watch the wolf too hard, a mouse will bite you on the ankle
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Robert Jordan |
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3c2fc1b
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If you plan for the worst, all surprises are pleasant.
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Robert Jordan |
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5f226f2
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The lions sing and the hills take flight. The moon by day, and the sun by night. Blind woman, deaf man, jackdaw fool. Let the Lord of Chaos rule. -chant from a children's game heard in Great Arvalon, the Fourth Age
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Robert Jordan |
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b742c4c
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She's not for you, nor you for her; at least, not in the way you both want.
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Robert Jordan |
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814ed72
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As the Wheel of Time turns, places wear many names. Men wear many names, many faces. Different faces, but always the same man. Yet no one knows the Great Pattern the Wheel weaves, or even the Pattern of an Age. We can only watch, and study, and hope.
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time-passing
wheel-of-time
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Robert Jordan |
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15a323f
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The rose petal floats on water. The kingfisher flashes above the pond. Life and beauty swirl in the midst of death.
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Robert Jordan |
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cc5e0b6
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It was easier to be brave when someone needed your protection.
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eye-of-the-world
rand
wheel-of-time
protection
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Robert Jordan |
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cbe7f93
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Death is lighter than a feather. Duty, heavier than a mountain.
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fantasy-literature
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Robert Jordan |
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fda7a58
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Hammar moved to stand beside Galad, still groaning on the ground and trying to push himself up. The warder raised his voice to shout, "Who was the greatest blademaster of all time?' From the throats of dozens of students came a massed bellow. "Jearom, Gaidin!" "Yes!" Hammar shouted, turning to make sure all heard. "During his lifetime, Jearom fought over ten thousand times, in battle and single combat. He was defeated once. By a farmer with..
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Robert Jordan |
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066d7aa
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Storms rumble beyond the horizon, and the fires of heaven purge the earth. There is no salvation without destruction, no hope this side of death.
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Robert Jordan |
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4cfdeee
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Thank you," the young mother said again. "Thank you." "The Black Tower protects," Logain heard himself say. "Always." "I will send him to you to be tested when he is of age," the woman promised, holding her son. "I would have him join you, if he has the talent." The talent. Not the curse. The talent."
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Robert Jordan |
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ffcf248
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If wishes had wings, sheep would fly.
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Robert Jordan |
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9521fb3
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Care for the living. I'll weep for the dead later. - Perrin Aybara
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Robert Jordan |
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65fa813
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At my age, if I make it up, it's still an old saying.
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old-sayings
old-age
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Robert Jordan |
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119e694
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Lan told me once that Malkier lives so long as one man wears the in pledge that he will fight the Shadow, so long as one woman wears the in pledge that she will send her sons to fight the Shadow. I wear the , Master Aldragoran. My husband wears the . So do you. Will Lan Mandragoran ride to the Last Battle alone?
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last-battle
malkier
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Robert Jordan |
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68bb11f
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A wise ruler takes advice, but should never be seen to take it. Let them think you know more than you do. It will not harm them, and it will help you.
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Robert Jordan |
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4721eca
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If the world is ending, a woman will want to fix her hair. If the world's ending, a woman will take the time to tell a man something he's done wrong. -Matrim Cauthon
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Robert Jordan |
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cc6e9af
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It is every man's right to choose when to Sheathe the Sword." --- Ingtar Shinowa ---"
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Robert Jordan |
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3a78ca4
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I love words," Mat said. "There are some deliciously pretty words out there. 'Smile.' That's always sounded like a pretty word to me. Don't you think? Or, perhaps, the words 'I promise not to kill Egwene right now for trying to touch me, the Empress, may I live forever, because we really bloody need her for the next couple of weeks or so.'" He eyeed Fortuona pointedly."
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Robert Jordan |
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I had long wondered," Lan said to Tam. "About the man who had given Rand that heron-marked blade. I wondered if he had truly earned it. Now I know." Lan raised his own sword in salute."
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Robert Jordan |
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9d6a367
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A pig painted gold is still a pig.
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Robert Jordan |
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68a5dbd
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The Golden Crane flies for Tarmon Gai'don!
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tarmon-gai-don
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Robert Jordan |
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6204a81
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You'll use it, boy, and as long as you hate using it, you will use it more wisely than most men would. Wait. If ever you don't hate it any longer, then will be the time to throw it as far as you can and run the other way.
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Robert Jordan |