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No. Please do not name either child after me, Elayne. Let them live their own lives. My shadow will be long enough as it is.' -Rand

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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.
Enough
Shadow
Children
Please
Long
Name
Either
Names
Child
Lives
Live
Rand

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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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Only a fool thinks his enemies stand still when he isn't looking, my Lord Dragon.
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Always something new, always something I didn't expect, and sometimes it isn't horrible.
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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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Yes, I'm alive, Mat said. I'm usually pretty good at staying alive. I've only failed one time that I can remember, and it hardly counts.
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Care for the living. I'll weep for the dead later. - Perrin Aybara
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A fool puts her hand into a hollow tree without finding out what's inside first.
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Courage to strengthen, fire to blind, music to daze, iron to bind.
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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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The wheel weaves as the wheel wills
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The fact that the price must be paid is proof it is worth paying.
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What is too absurd to be believed is believed because it is too absurd to be a lie.
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Love is an odd thing. As odd a thing as there is.
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A cat for a hat, or a hat for a cat. But nothing for nothing.
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Jump in a hole without looking, and there'll be a snake in it every time.
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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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