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‘It is possible to oppose evil without doing violence.’
‘Just because fate has chosen something for you instead of you choosing it for yourself doesn’t mean it has to be bad. Even if it’s something you are sure you would never have chosen in a hundred years. “Better ten days of love than years of regretting,”’
“shall slay his people with the sword of peace, and destroy them with the leaf”? What does it meant that he “shall bind the nine moons to serve him”? Yet these are given equal weight with Callandor in the Cycle. There are others. What “wounds of madness and cutting of hope” has he healed? What chains has he broken, and who put into chains?
‘An Aielman in a cage,’ she said promptly. ‘A Tuatha’an with a sword. A falcon and a hawk, perching on your shoulders. Both female, I think. And all the rest, of course. What is always there. Darkness swirling ’round you, and—’
Always plan for the worst, child; that way, all your surprises will be pleasant ones.’
You can turn the worst that comes to your advantage if you only think,
There had been a dream of Rand, reaching for a sword that seemed to be made of crystal, never seeing the fine net dropping over him. And one of him kneeling in a chamber where a parched wind blew dust across the floor, and creatures like the one on the Dragon banner, but much smaller, floated on that wind, and settled into his skin. There had been a dream of him walking down into a great hole in a black mountain, a hole filled with a reddish glare as from vast fires below, and even a dream of him confronting Seanchan.
The pin was the smallest part of a pair of scissors, and the easiest made, but without it, the scissors cut no cloth.
For the young, death is an enemy they wish to try their strength against. For those of us a little older, she is an old friend, an old lover, but one we are not eager to meet again soon.’
What is real is not real. What is not real is real. Flesh is a dream, and dreams have flesh.
