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Better to face the bear than run from it.
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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On the heights, all paths are paved with daggers. -Old Seanchan saying
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The rose petal floats on water. The kingfisher flashes above the pond. Life and beauty swirl in the midst of death.
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The more bosom a woman displayed, the less she wanted you to look. Openly, at least.
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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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Never kiss a girl whose brothers have knife scars.
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Loial, son of Arent, son of Halen, had secretly always wanted to be hasty.
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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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The only way was forward, whatever lay at the end.
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Storms rumble beyond the horizon, and the fires of heaven purge the earth. There is no salvation without destruction, no hope this side of death.
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She’s not for you, nor you for her at least, not in the way you both want.
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Men forget, but never forgive women forgive, but never forget.
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My mother says men are different from us. She says we want to be in love, but only with the one we want a man needs to be in love, but he will love the first woman to tie a string to his heart. - Egwene, speaking to Elayne
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One pretty woman means fun at the dance. Two pretty women means trouble in the house. Three pretty women means run at the hills.
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Waiting turns men into bears in a barn, and women into cats in a sack.
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Reading is like breathing. If you take it away, first I become antsy, then violent.
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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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The leaf lives its appointed time, and does not struggle against the wind that carries it away. The leaf does no harm, and finally falls to nourish new leaves. So it should be with all men and women.
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