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If it's not forbidden, then it's allowed. (Robert Jordan)
I've seen men die because they were sure that what should not happen, would not. -Robert Jordan(The eye of the world, Wheel of time) View quote
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A young wolfhound must meet his first wolf someday, but if the wolf sees him as a puppy, if he acts the puppy, the wolf will surely kill him. The wolfhound must be a wolfhound in the wolf's eyes even more than in his own, if he is to survive. View quote
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You're not asking me to guess the mind of Matrim Cauthon, are you?" Elayne asked. "I'm convinced that Mat only acts simple so that people will let him get away with more. View quote
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Does it make you brave to stick your hand in a bear's mouth? Would you do it again just because you didn't die? View quote
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When a young woman's cheeks redden for no apparent reason, there is usually a man involved. View quote
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We can't go back, Mat. The Wheel has turned, for better or worse. And it will keep turning, as lights die and forests dim, storms call and skies break. Turn it will. The Wheel is not hope, and the Wheel does not care, the Wheel simply is. But so long as it turns, folk may hope, folk may care. For with light that fades, another will eventually grow, and each storm that rages must eventually die. As long as the Wheel turns. As long is it turns.... View quote
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[Aviendha] didn't trust change. It couldn't be spotted or stabbed; it was more silent than any scout, more deadly than any assassin. No, she'd never trust it, but she would accept it. View quote
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Honor? Maybe they're letting him sleep on silk, but a prisoner is still a prisoner. View quote
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A bloody hero. Thom, if I ever look like acting the hero again, you kick me." "And what would you have done differently? View quote
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When you leap from a cliff, it is too late for anything but holding to your courage. And hoping there's a haywain at the bottom to land in. (Robert Jordan)
Here, southlander, you can't quit while you are winning. Better than when I'm losing. View quote
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I will use anybody I must. You said it yourself; I am who I am. And I'm using myself up, Perrin, because I have to. Just like I'll use anybody I have to. We don't have a choice anymore. Not me, not you, not anybody! View quote
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How was he to cause war, as the prophecies say he must? How was he to break the nations and bind them to him? How could he 'slay his people with the sword of peace' or 'bind the nine moons to serve him' if he was locked away? Do the prophecies say that he will be 'unfettered'? Do they not speak of the 'chaos of his passing? View quote
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You have to have talent to some extent - I certainly hope I have talent - but you have to have luck as well. Once you get that first shot, that will get you noticed for the rest of your books and that will give the rest of your books a better chance. View quote
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Fantasy is an area where it is possible to talk about right and wrong, good and evil, with a straight face. In mainstream fiction and even in a good deal of mystery, these things are presented as simply two sides of the same coin. Never really more than a matter of where you happen to be standing. View quote
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Better to have one woman on your side than ten men. View quote
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I doubt you can understand the magnitude of the stupidity in your statement. View quote
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He was swimming in a sea of other people's expectations. Men had drowned in seas like that. View quote
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The wheel weaves as the wheel wills. View quote
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Time to toss the dice. (Robert Jordan)
Women often seemed to leave things unsaid, and in his limited experience it was what they did not say that proved the most trouble. View quote
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He came like the wind, like the wind touched everything, and like the wind was gone. -from The Dragon Reborn. By Loial, son of Arent son of Halan, the Fourth Age. View quote
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Pessimism, she is a fond friend of yours, yes?" - That's uncalled for. I barely know her. Mere acquaintances, at best. View quote
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Let the dead rest, and care for the living. View quote
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