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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
Age: 58 †
Born: 1948
Born: October 17
Died: 2007
Died: September 16
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Military Officer
Novelist
Science Fiction Writer
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Charleston
South Carolina
James Oliver Rigney
Jr.
Tomorrow
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Remember
Fish
May
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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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For the young, death is an enemy they wish to try their strength against. For those of us a little older, she is an old friend, an old lover, but one we are not eager to meet again soon.
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You can never know everything, and part of what you know is always wrong. A portion of wisdom lies in knowing that. A portion of courage lies in going on anyway.
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Strange clothes you wear, Child of the Dragon. Has the Wheel turned so far? Do the People of the Dragon return to the first Covenant? But you wear a sword. That is neither now nor then.
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There are no clear paths. Only pitfalls and tripwires and darkness.
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If any of these women had been here instead of Nynaeve, the world would have ended.
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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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A spoonful of hope and a cup of despair
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If wishes had wings, sheep would fly.
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If it hurts too much, make it hurt someone else instead.
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If you try putting a woman on a horse when she does not want to go, she may put a knife in your ribs.
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Caution once forgotten could be forgotten once too often.
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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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You trouble me so, Rand al'Thor. Light, sometimes I think the Creator made you just to trouble me.
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You break your neck, and I’ll see it mended just so I can break it again.
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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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Dance well with a woman, and she's halfway yours.
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Facing them (men) with knives and spears was much easier than loving them, much easier.
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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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I've come to give you your gift back, Mordeth, Cauthon whispered. I consider our debt paid in full.
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