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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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There was a wild light in his eyes. Bring your lightnings, Aes Sedai. I will dance with them.
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If you wish, you may call me Rand Sedai.
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I've come to give you your gift back, Mordeth, Cauthon whispered. I consider our debt paid in full.
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The nobles and the noble Houses maneuver for advantage. They do things they think will help them, or hurt and enemy, or both. Usually, it's all done in secrecy, or if not, they try to make it seem as if they're doing something other than what they are.
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I always get what I want in the end. And I think I want...ornamental ironwork. For the windows of my bedchamber.
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Always plan for the worst, child that way, all your surprises will be pleasant ones.
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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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Dovie'andi se tovya sagain!
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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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Always leave a way out, unless you really want to find out how hard a man can fight when he’s nothing to lose.
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Always something new, always something I didn't expect, and sometimes it isn't horrible.
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A man falling off a cliff to certain death will stretch out a hand even to his worst enemy.
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Belief and order give strength. Have to clear rubble before you can build.
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Fantasy is an area where it is possible to talk about right and wrong, good and evil, with a straight face. In mainstream fiction and even in a good deal of mystery, these things are presented as simply two sides of the same coin. Never really more than a matter of where you happen to be standing.
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Prophecy is most dangerous when you try to make it happen... The Pattern weaves itself around you, but when you try to weave it, even you cannot hold it.
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Teach him how you will, a pig will never play the flute.
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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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I will hate the man you choose because he isn't me, and love him if he makes you smile.
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Kill a man who needs killing, and sometimes others pay for it. The question is, was it worth doing it anyway? There's always a balance, you know. Good and evil. Light and Shadow. We would not be human if there wasn't a balance.
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A gnarled old branch dulls the blade that severs a sapling.
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