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To fight the raven you may make alliance with the serpent until the battle is done.

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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.
May
Raven
Done
Ravens
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Alliance
Serpent
Alliances
Battle
Fight
Fighting

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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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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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Loial, son of Arent, son of Halen, had secretly always wanted to be hasty.
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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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Rand al'Thor is a mule-headed, stone-willed fool of a...a...a man!
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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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Often you don't know whether a woman is friend, enemy or lover until it is too late. Sometimes, she is all three.
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It's not evil, Rand. I know something evil when I smell it. This isn't evil, it's just incredibly stupid.
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The Wheel of Time turns, and Ages come and pass, leaving memories that become legend. Legend fades to myth, and even myth is long forgotten when the Age that gave it birth comes again.
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We are always more afraid than we wish to be, but we can always be braver than we expect.
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Strange clothes you wear, Child of the Dragon. Has the Wheel turned so far? Do the People of the Dragon return to the first Covenant? But you wear a sword. That is neither now nor then.
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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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If you must mount the gallows, give a jest to the crowd, a coin the hangman, and make the drop with a smile on your lips.
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When there are fish heads and blood in the water, you don't need to see the silverpike to know they are there.
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The road ahead of you is long, dark, and, I very much fear, bloodstained. I also very much fear that you will take us all down that road. But you must live to reach the end of it.
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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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Nobody tells us how to be men. We just are.
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If a woman does need a hero, she needs him today, not tomorrow.
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