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In Shinear, a woman [is] safe anywhere, any time-except from Trollocs and Myrddraal, of course-and any man [will] die to see it so.

Robert Jordan

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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.
Courses
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Dies
Woman
Men
Time
Anywhere
Except
Safe

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You trouble me so, Rand al'Thor. Light, sometimes I think the Creator made you just to trouble me.
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Waiting turns men into bears in a barn, and women into cats in a sack.
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Young men and fools sometimes bear pain they do not have to as a badge of their pride. Or their foolishness.
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In wars, boy, fools kill other fools for foolish causes
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Beauty holds more worth than gold.
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You're welcome in my house when this is over. We'll open a cask of Master al'Vere's best brandy. We'll remember those who fell, and we'll tell our children how we stood when the clouds turned black and the world started to die. We'll tell them we stood shoulder to shoulder, and there was just no space for the Shadow to squeeze through.
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You could weave silk from pig bristles before you could make a man anything but a man.
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Better to face the bear than run from it.
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The pike does not ask the frog's permission before dining.
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The corpse's hand reached up and grabbed Shaisam by the throat. He gasped, thrashing, as the corpse opened its eye. There's an odd thing about disease I once heard, Fain, Matrim Cauthon whispered. Once you catch a disease and survive, you can't get it again.
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i can't understand her well son, you might as well try to understand the sun. derived form the book:fires of heaven by robert jordan.
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Reading is like breathing. If you take it away, first I become antsy, then violent.
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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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What you want is what you cannot have. What you cannot have is what you want.
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Even a queen stubs her toe, but a wise woman watches the path.
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Nobody tells us how to be men. We just are.
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He is born again! I feel him! The Dragon takes his first breath on the slope of Dragonmount! He is coming! He is coming! Light help us! Light help the world! He lies in the snow and cries like the thunder! He burns like the sun!
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Take what you want, and pay for it.
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