"Never kiss a girl whose brothers have knife scars."
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"We all make our limits, and we set them further out than we have any right."
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"May you shelter in the palm of the Creator's hand, and may the last embrace of the mother welcome you home."
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"You didn't listen to me," Lan whispered. One last lesson. The hardest. Demandred struck, and Lan saw his opening. Lan lunged forward placing Demandred's sword point against his own side and ramming himself forward onto it. "I did not come here to win," Lan whispered, smiling. "I came here to kill you. Death is lighter than a feather." Demandred's eyes opened wide, and he tried to pull back. Too late. Lan's sword took him straight though the throat."
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"Better ten days of love than years of regretting."
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"Out of the night Hopper came, and Perrin was one with the wolf. Hopper, the cub who had watched the eagles soar, and wanted so badly to fly through the sky as the eagles did. The cub who hopped and jumped and leaped until he could leap higher than any other wolf, who never lost the cub's yearning to soar through the sky. [...] Something crashed into his head, and as he fell, he did not know if it was Hopper or himself who died."
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"A man without trust is a man without life."
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"Men always seem to refuse to admit they are sick until they're sick enough to make twice as much work for women. Then they claim they're well too soon, with the same result."
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"Humankind is made for uncertainty, struggle, choice and change."
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"Never gamble without knowing a back way out."
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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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"Even a queen stubs her toe, but a wise woman watches the path."
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"Sandar came to stand beside him, frowning down at the crumpled High Lord. "He does not look so mighty lying there," he said wonderingly. "He does not look so much greater than me."
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"Waiting turns men into bears in a barn, and women into cats in a sack."
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"Demandred blocked Lan's attack but he breathed hoarsely. "Who are you?" Demandred whispered again. "No one of this Age has such skill. Asmodean? No, no. He couldn't have fought me like this. Lews Therin? It is you behind that face, isn't it?" "I am just a man," Lan whispered. "That is all I have ever been."
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"As my Lord says, my Lord's leg is not a side of beef. Thank you, my Lord, for instructing me."
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"The way back will come but once. Be steadfast."
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"Dance with her, and she will forgive much. Dance well, and she will forgive anything."
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"It seems to me that kings and queens can be fools when they forget what they are and act like who they are, but they're worse when they only remember what they are and forget who."
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"Once you decide to gut a fish, there's no use waiting till it rots."
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