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I can rest when I'm dead.

Robert Jordan

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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.
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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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Two hands. One to destroy, the other to save. Which had he lost?
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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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There are no clear paths. Only pitfalls and tripwires and darkness.
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If a woman does need a hero, she needs him today, not tomorrow.
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The only way was forward, whatever lay at the end.
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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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Courage to strengthen, fire to blind, music to daze, iron to bind.
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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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Facing them (men) with knives and spears was much easier than loving them, much easier.
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It is the enemy you underestimate who kills you.
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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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The Black Tower stands with the Lion of Andor. -Logain
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Only a battle lost is sadder than a battle won.
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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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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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If it hurts too much, make it hurt someone else instead.
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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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Dance well with a woman, and she's halfway yours.
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The end is near, Moridin said. The Wheel has groaned its final rotation, the clock has lost its spring, the serpent heaves its final gasps.
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