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To anger an Aes Sedai is to put your head in a hornets' nest.

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.
Hornets
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Nests
Anger
Head

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Duty is heavier than a mountain, Dai Shan.' That time, Lan did flinch. How long had it been since someone had been able to do that to him with mere words? He remembered teaching that same concept to a youth out of the Two Rivers. A sheepherder, innocent of the world, fearful of the fate laid out before him by the Pattern.
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I grew up around strong women weak men were pickled and salted. The women wouldn't waste time raising a weak boy.
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I do not like odd things until I can understand them.
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The only way to live is to die. I must die. I deserve only death.
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If you ask the lion to protect from from wolves, you have only chosen to end in one belly instead of another.
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There are no clear paths. Only pitfalls and tripwires and darkness.
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No man should have another man's voice in his head.
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Prophecy is most dangerous when you try to make it happen... The Pattern weaves itself around you, but when you try to weave it, even you cannot hold it.
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Pride fills me. I am sick with the pride that destroyed me.
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In wars, boy, fools kill other fools for foolish causes
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Even fools say something worthwhile now and again. Even a blind pig finds an acorn sometimes.
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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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If you have a sword, and the Aielman has his bare hands, it is an even fight. If you're good.
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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 only way was forward, whatever lay at the end.
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Loial, son of Arent, son of Halen, had secretly always wanted to be hasty.
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If your enemy offers you two targets, strike at a third.
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Should and would build no bridges.
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Hammer the iron that lies on your anvil instead of daydreaming about working silver.
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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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