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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.”
Why was it women could go to pieces or fly into a rage at the smallest thing, yet never flicker an eyelash at what left you gaping?
Through one circular window he saw three tall silvery spires, curving in toward each other so their points all aimed at the same spot.
“To marry the Daughter of the Nine Moons!” “To die and live again, and live once more a part of what was!” “To give up half the light of the world to save the world!” Together they howled like steam escaping under pressure. “Go to Rhuidean, son of battles! Go to Rhuidean, trickster! Go, gambler! Go!”
You have made a place in my heart where I thought there was no room for anything else. You have made flowers grow where I cultivated dust and stones.
‘Poke the meekest dog too often,’” Elayne quoted, “‘and he will bite.
Men always overreact when they let their emotions go; it’s the price for holding them in the way they do.
“In Rhuidean,” Amys said, “you will find three rings, arranged so.” She drew three lines in the air, joining together in the middle. “Step through any one. You will see your future laid before you, again and again, in variation.
Some women never return from the rings; perhaps they could not face the future. Some who survive the rings do not survive their second trip to Rhuidean, to the heart.
“The stone that never falls will fall to announce his coming. Of the blood, but not raised by the blood, he will come from Rhuidean at dawn, and tie you together with bonds you cannot break. He will take you back, and he will destroy you.
Courage to strengthen, fire to blind, music to daze, iron to bind.’” “That’s a line from the game.
They said Janduin claimed this man looked like Shaiel, and he would not raise his spear when the man ran him through.”
Why did men always think it was right to keep you safer than they kept themselves? Why did they think their injuries mattered less than yours?
