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If a woman does need a hero, she needs him today, not tomorrow.

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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Men forget, but never forgive women forgive, but never forget.
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Demandred blocked Lan's attack but he breathed hoarsely. Who are you? Demandred whispered again. No one of this Age has such skill. Asmodean? No, no. He couldn't have fought me like this. Lews Therin? It is you behind that face, isn't it? I am just a man, Lan whispered. That is all I have ever been.
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Pessimism, she is a fond friend of yours, yes? - That's uncalled for. I barely know her. Mere acquaintances, at best.
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My mother says men are different from us. She says we want to be in love, but only with the one we want a man needs to be in love, but he will love the first woman to tie a string to his heart. - Egwene, speaking to Elayne
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Before I knew what was happening, I had a fistful of spears around my neck like a collar. I could have shaved myself with one sneeze.
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Cheer the bull, or cheer the bear cheer both, and you will be trampled and eaten.
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The only way was forward, whatever lay at the end.
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Tuon's eyes snapped open, and despite the dim light, she focused directly on Mat. She saw the knife in his hand, ready to throw. Then she looked over her shoulder.
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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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It is every man's right to choose when to Sheathe the Sword. --- Ingtar Shinowa ---
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Even a queen stubs her toe, but a wise woman watches the path.
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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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Facing them (men) with knives and spears was much easier than loving them, much easier.
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There were many good years. Good decades, good centuries. We believed we were living in paradise. Perhaps that was our downfall. We wanted our lives to be perfect, so we ignored imperfections. Problems were magnified through inattention and war might have become inevitable if the Bore hadn't ever made.
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Reading is like breathing. If you take it away, first I become antsy, then violent.
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Teach him how you will, a pig will never play the flute.
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Whether the bear beats the wolf or the wolf beats the bear, the rabbit always loses.
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In the Borderlands, sheepherder, if a man has the raising of a child, that child is his, and none can say different.
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When the honey's out of the comb, there's no putting it back.
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Stopping a man from what he wants to do is like taking a sweet from a child. Sometimes you have to do it, but sometimes it just isn't worth the trouble.
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