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There was a wild light in his eyes. "Bring your lightnings, Aes Sedai. I will dance with them."
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Robert Jordan |
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915f427
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A secret spoken finds wings.
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discretion
secrets
sharing-secrets
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Listen sharp, think deep, and guard your tongue- Tam al'Thor
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Robert Jordan |
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Juilin," she asked hesitantly, "what were you going to do with the salt and cooking oil? Not exactly," she added more quickly. "Just a general idea." He looked at her for a moment. "I do not know. But they did not, either. That is the trick of it; their minds made up worse then I ever could. I have seen a tough man break when I sent for a basket of figs and some mice."
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Robert Jordan |
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I have lived for four centures," he said. "Perhaps I am still a youth, in that all of us are, compared to the timeless age of the Wheel itself. That said, I am one of the oldest people in existence." Moiraine smiled. "Very nice. Does that work on the others?" He hesitated. Then, oddly, he found himself grinning. "It worked pretty well on Cadsuane." Moiraine sniffed. "That one...Well, knowing her, I doubt you fooled her as well as you assume..
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Robert Jordan |
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When you saw me with a dagger in hand - as if to throw at you - you didn't call for your guards. You didn't fear I was here to kill you. You looked over your shoulder to see what I was aiming at. That's the most loving gesture I think a man could receive from a woman. Unless you'd like to sit on my knee for a while...
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Robert Jordan |
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4c626d2
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But it was an ending.
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Robert Jordan |
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A young wolfhound must meet his first wolf someday, but if the wolf sees him as a puppy, if he acts the puppy, the wolf will surely kill him. The wolfhound must be a wolfhound in the wolf's eyes even more than in his own, if he is to survive.
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Robert Jordan |
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f553c08
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On the heights, all paths are paved with daggers.
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Robert Jordan |
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You're not asking me to guess the mind of Matrim Cauthon, are you?" Elayne asked. "I'm convinced that Mat only acts simple so that people will let him get away with more."
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Bashere shrugged, grinning brhind his grey-streaked moustaches, "When I first slept in a saddle, Muad Cheade was Marshal-General. The man was as mad as a hare in spring thaw. Twice every day he searched his bodyservant for poison, and he drank nothing but vinegar and water which he claimed was sovereign against the poison the fellow fed him, but he ate everything the man prepared for as long as I knew him. Once he had a grove of oaks choppe..
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madness
humor
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114dbed
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Bashere shrugged, grinning brhind his grey-streaked moustaches, "When I first slept in a saddle, Muad Cheade was Marshal-General. The man was as mad as a hare in spring thaw. Twice every day he searched his bodyservant for poison, and he drank nothing but vinegar and water which he claimed was sovereign against the poison the fellow fed him, but he ate everything the man prepared for as long as I knew him. Once he had a grove of oaks choppe..
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madness
humor
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Robert Jordan |
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c22ee87
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Even fools say something worthwhile now and again. Even a blind pig finds an acorn sometimes.
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wisdom
luck
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Robert Jordan |
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It's not evil, Rand. I know something evil when I smell it. This isn't evil, it's just incredibly stupid.
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stupidity
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Robert Jordan |
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edd1340
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p.s. In case you don't know what "Do what needs to be done" means, it means that I want you to go bloody slaughter as many of the Sharan channelers as you can. I'll bet you a full Tar Valon mark-it's only been shaved on the sides a little-that you can't kill twenty.-MC missive from Mat to Galad" --
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Robert Jordan |
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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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He was a soldier. He was a shepherd. He was a beggar, and a king. He was a farmer, gleeman, sailor, carpenter. He was born, lived, and died Aiel. He died mad, he died rotting, he died of sickness, accident, age. He was executed, and multitudes cheered his death. He proclaimed himself the Dragon Reborn and flung his banner across the sky; he ran from the Power and hid; he lived and died never knowing. He held off the madness and the sickness..
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Robert Jordan |
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2f42011
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Does it make you brave to stick your hand in a bear's mouth? Would you do it again just because you didn't die?
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death
medieval
fantasy-fiction
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Robert Jordan |
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d4c0042
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I wonder if," Nynaeve said, "we sometimes put the White Tower --as an institution-- before the people we serve. I wonder if we let it become a goal in itself, instead of a means to help us achieve greater goals." "Devotion is important, Nynaeve. The White Tower protects and guides the world." "And yet, so many of us do it without families," Nynaeve said. "Without love, without passion beyond our own particular interests. So even while we tr..
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Robert Jordan |
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If you ask the lion to protect from from wolves, you have only chosen to end in one belly instead of another.
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Robert Jordan |
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a03d128
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Knowing serves no real purpose, but then, neither does not knowing. Myself, I always prefer knowing to not.
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Robert Jordan |
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When a woman says she will obey you, of her own will, it is time to sleep lightly and watch your back.
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wheel-of-time
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Robert Jordan |
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That man,' Elayne said, 'is never where he needs to be.' 'And yet,' Perrin said, 'he always arrives there eventually.
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Robert Jordan |
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Remember that any meal can be your last. You chose to travel with us, so tonight you will eat fish. Tomorrow, you may die.
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Robert Jordan |
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If you wish, you may call me Rand Sedai.
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Robert Jordan |
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Women," Mat declared as he rode Pips down the dusty, little-used road, "are like mules." He frowned. "Wait. No. Goats. Women are like goats. Except every flaming one thinks she's a horse instead, and a prize racing mare to boot. Do you understand me, Talmanes?" "Pure poetry, Mat," Talmanes said, tamping the tabac down into his pipe."
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Robert Jordan |
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The Light willing, we will see one another again," Rand said. He held out his hand to Perrin. "Watch out for Mat. I'm honestly not sure what he's going to do, but I have a feeling it will be highly dangerous for all involved." "Not like us," Perrin said, clasping Rand's forearm. "You and I, we're much better at keeping to the safe paths."
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Robert Jordan |
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How long had he been doing what was necessary instead of what was right? In a fair world they would be one and the same.
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Robert Jordan |
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He doesn't know what to make of me," Mat said softly. "How very uncommon. I can't think of anyone else who has reacted that way to you, Mat."
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Robert Jordan |
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Should and would build no bridges. -Lini
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Robert Jordan |
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i can't understand her" well son, you might as well try to understand the sun" --
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robert jordan |
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Sene sovya caba'donde ain dovienya
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mat-cauthon
melindhra
knives
wheel-of-time
luck
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Robert Jordan |
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1836bda
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The people seemed nearly ostentatious about minding their own business.
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Robert Jordan |
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9e4225d
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Two hands. One to destroy, the other to save. Which had he lost?
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Robert Jordan |
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8401af0
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Sometimes six and six make a dozen, and sometimes they make a mess
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Robert Jordan |
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Remember the flame, lad, and the void." It was an odd thing Tam had taught him. Concentrate on a single flame and feed all your passions into it--fear, hate, anger--until your mind became empty. Become one with the void, Tam said, and you could do anything."
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Robert Jordan |
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2b2d384
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All men are ignorant, Aes Sedai. The topics of our ignorance may change, but the nature of the world is that no man may know everything.
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Robert Jordan |
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of them?" Mat spluttered. "Light! Two! Oh, burn me! He's the luckiest man in the world or the biggest fool since creation!"
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Robert Jordan |
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d0c154a
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In wars, boy, fools kill other fools for foolish causes. That's enough for anyone to know.
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Robert Jordan |
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4ed534a
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You can never know everything, and part of what you know is always wrong. Perhaps even the most important part. A portion of wisdom lies in knowing that. A portion of courage lies in going on anyway.
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wisdom
knowledge
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Robert Jordan |
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97a662e
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Good morrow, High Lord Weiramon, and all you other High Lords and Ladies. I'm a gambler, a farmboy, and I'm here to take command of your bloody army! The bloody lord Dragon Reborn will be with us as soon as he flaming takes care of one bloody little matter!
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Robert Jordan |
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857dacb
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And it shall come to pass that what man made shall be shattered, and the Shadow shall lie across the Pattern of Age, and the Dark One shall once more lay his hand upon the world of man. Women shall weep and men quail as the nations of the earth are rent like rotting cloth. Neither shall anything stand nor abide... Yet one shall be born to face the Shadow, born once more as he was born before and shall be born again, time without end. The Dr..
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Robert Jordan |
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ffd014f
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Victory settles a lot of arguments in most men's heads.
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Robert Jordan |
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db4fba6
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Duty is heavier than a mountain, Dai Shan.' That time, Lan did flinch. How long had it been since someone had been able to do that to him with mere words? He remembered teaching that same concept to a youth out of the Two Rivers. A sheepherder, innocent of the world, fearful of the fate laid out before him by the Pattern.
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Robert Jordan |