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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
Age: 58 †
Born: 1948
Born: October 17
Died: 2007
Died: September 16
Author
Military Officer
Novelist
Science Fiction Writer
Writer
Charleston
South Carolina
James Oliver Rigney
Jr.
Least
Way

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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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If a woman does need a hero, she needs him today, not tomorrow.
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The fact that the price must be paid is proof it is worth paying.
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You have made a place in my heart where I thought there was no room for anything else. You have made flowers grow where I cultivated dust and stones. Remember this, on this journey you insist on making. If you die, I will not survive you long.
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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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The wheel of a man's life. No mercy. No pity.
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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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