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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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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.
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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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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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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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What you want is what you cannot have. What you cannot have is what you want.
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