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Care for the living. I'll weep for the dead later. - Perrin Aybara

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.
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Later
Dead
Living
Care

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Perrin, my father says a general can take care of the living or weep for the dead, but he cannot do both.
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A woman's eyes cut deeper than a knife.
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Nobody tells us how to be men. We just are.
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Trust is as slippery as a basket of eels sometimes.
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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 cat for a hat, or a hat for a cat. But nothing for nothing.
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What you want is what you cannot have. What you cannot have is what you want.
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Better to have one woman on your side than ten men.
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Waiting turns men into bears in a barn, and women into cats in a sack.
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A fool puts her hand into a hollow tree without finding out what's inside first.
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The Black Tower stands with the Lion of Andor. -Logain
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If wishes were wings, pigs would fly.
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Belief and order give strength. Have to clear rubble before you can build.
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A spoonful of hope and a cup of despair
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Sandar came to stand beside him, frowning down at the crumpled High Lord. He does not look so mighty lying there, he said wonderingly. He does not look so much greater than me.
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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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I grew up around strong women weak men were pickled and salted. The women wouldn't waste time raising a weak boy.
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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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