"Women often seemed to leave things unsaid, and in his limited experience it was what they did not say that proved the most trouble."
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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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"Til shade is gone, til water is gone Into the shadow with teeth bared Screaming defiance with the last breath To spit in Sightblinder’s eye on the Last Day."
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"My mother always told me the best way to learn to deal with a man was to learn to ride a mule. She said they have about equal brains most of the time. Sometimes the mule is smarter."
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"I will hate the man you choose because he is not me, and love him if he makes you smile. No woman deserves the sure knowledge of widow’s black as her brideprice, you least of all."
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"The Wheel of Time turns, and Ages come and pass. What was, what will be, and what is, may yet fall under the Shadow."
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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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"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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"Reading is like breathing. If you take it away, first I become antsy, then violent."
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"What you want is what you cannot have. What you cannot have is what you want."
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"If your enemy offers you two targets, strike at a third."
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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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"You will serve the Cyrstal Throne well. It would be a shame to see you assassinated too early. I will make certain that the first I send after you are newly trained, so that you may stop them with ease." -General Galgan to Mat"
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"the wolf may fight the bear but the rabbit always looses"
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"If the world is ending, a woman will want to fix her hair. If the world's ending, a woman will take the time to tell a man something he's done wrong."
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"But men often mistake killing and revenge for justice. They seldom have the stomach for justice."
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"All was shattered, and all but memory lost, and one memory above all others, of him who brought the Shadow and the Breaking of the World. And him they named Dragon."
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"As the Wheel of Time turns, places wear many names. Men wear many names, many faces. Different faces, but always the same man. Yet no one knows the Great Pattern the Wheel weaves, or even the Pattern of an Age. We can only watch, and study, and hope."
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"Death comes to us all; we can only choose how to face it when it comes."
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"Almost dead yesterday, maybe dead tomorrow, but alive, gloriously alive, today. -- Mat Cauthon"
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