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She thought the Creator must have been tired when it came time to make men; sometimes they hardly seemed human.
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?
Prophecy is no more than the sign of what people hope for.
Those who move with too much knowledge of the future inevitably find disaster, whether from complacency at what they think must come or in their efforts to change it.”
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.”
a general can take care of the living or weep for the dead, but he cannot do both.”
“Mainly I’ve just tried to keep from having my head split open. That’s what adventures are, that and finding a place to sleep for the night, and something to eat. You go hungry a lot having adventures, and sleep cold or wet or both.”
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?
