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Love is an odd thing. As odd a thing as there is.

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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.
Odd
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Love

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Thank you, the young mother said again. Thank you. The Black Tower protects, Logain heard himself say. Always. I will send him to you to be tested when he is of age, the woman promised, holding her son. I would have him join you, if he has the talent. The talent. Not the curse. The talent.
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A gnarled old branch dulls the blade that severs a sapling.
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Waiting turns men into bears in a barn, and women into cats in a sack.
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The Wheel weaves as the Wheel wills, Perrin. We've become what we needed to become.- Rand Al'Thor
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The more women there are about, the softer a wise man steps.
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If wishes had wings, sheep would fly.
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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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Facing them (men) with knives and spears was much easier than loving them, much easier.
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When a woman says she will obey you, of her own will, it is time to sleep lightly and watch your back.
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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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There was a wild light in his eyes. Bring your lightnings, Aes Sedai. I will dance with them.
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A cat for a hat, or a hat for a cat. But nothing for nothing.
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The corpse's hand reached up and grabbed Shaisam by the throat. He gasped, thrashing, as the corpse opened its eye. There's an odd thing about disease I once heard, Fain, Matrim Cauthon whispered. Once you catch a disease and survive, you can't get it again.
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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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Fantasy is an area where it is possible to talk about right and wrong, good and evil, with a straight face. In mainstream fiction and even in a good deal of mystery, these things are presented as simply two sides of the same coin. Never really more than a matter of where you happen to be standing.
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You could weave silk from pig bristles before you could make a man anything but a man.
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Reading is like breathing. If you take it away, first I become antsy, then violent.
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Even fools say something worthwhile now and again. Even a blind pig finds an acorn sometimes.
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The only way was forward, whatever lay at the end.
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You will serve the Cyrstal Throne well. It would be a shame to see you assassinated too early. I will make certain that the first I send after you are newly trained, so that you may stop them with ease. -General Galgan to Mat
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