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Trust is as slippery as a basket of eels sometimes.

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.
Baskets
Slippery
Trust
Sometimes
Eels
Basket

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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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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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You trouble me so, Rand al'Thor. Light, sometimes I think the Creator made you just to trouble me.
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Think if you want to stay alive. Fear will kill you if you don't control it.
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It is the enemy you underestimate who kills you.
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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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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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Only a fool thinks his enemies stand still when he isn't looking, my Lord Dragon.
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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 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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On the heights, all paths are paved with daggers. -Old Seanchan saying
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hope is like a piece of string when you’re drowning it just isn’t enough to get you out by itself.
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In Shinear, a woman [is] safe anywhere, any time-except from Trollocs and Myrddraal, of course-and any man [will] die to see it so.
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Let most men have a finger and they will have the whole hand before you know. Let a clan cheif have a finger and he will have the entire arm.
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Always leave a way out, unless you really want to find out how hard a man can fight when he’s nothing to lose.
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A spoonful of hope and a cup of despair
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It's never over, al'Thor. The battle's never done.
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Anyone who claimed that old age had brought them patience was either lying or senile.
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Rand al'Thor is a mule-headed, stone-willed fool of a...a...a man!
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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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