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Royal line of Andor would be the key to defeating the Dark One in the Last Battle.
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?
Asmodean will teach you to wield the Power without it killing you, teach what you can do with
“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!”
But Loial had gone anyway, to see the world, and his greatest fear was that his mother would find him and drag him back to the stedding to marry, never to leave again.
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.
Life is uncertainty and struggle, choice and change; one who knew how her life was woven into the Pattern as well as she knew how a thread was laid into a carpet would have the life of an animal. If she did not go mad. Humankind is made for uncertainty, struggle, choice and change.”
“Death is lighter than a feather, duty heavier than a mountain.”
folly, but when need called, what was foolish changed.
“As well try to understand the sun, Perrin. It simply is, and it is not to be understood. You cannot live without it, but it exacts a price. So with women.”
If you plan for the worst, all surprises are pleasant.”
They said Janduin claimed this man looked like Shaiel, and he would not raise his spear when the man ran him through.”
“Men always find ways to make work for women,” Amys said. “Why should Rand al’Thor be different?”
“Sa souvraya niende misain ye,” he said aloud. “I am lost in my own mind.”
a general can take care of the living or weep for the dead, but he cannot do both.”
The worst sin a general can commit, worse than blundering,
worse than losing, worse than anything, is to desert the men who depend on him.”
Swing a hammer in haste, and you usually hit your own thumb.
“Most men want to believe in something larger than themselves, something wider than their own fields. That is why there are nations, Perrin, and peoples.
A Wise One must be in control of her emotions, not they in control of her.”
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?
