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There was a difference between being proud of a grand fireplace in your hall and walking into the flames.
In a moment he would speak to the Aiel outside, and become the Dragon Reborn again. But for now, he only wanted to sit, and remember a shepherd named Rand al’
Burn me, I don’t know what I’d know, but I know I want to know it. That’s a twisty riddle, isn’t it?’
‘Yet sometimes it seems ignorance would be better, to be a farm woman knowing nothing beyond the boundaries of her fields.’
People who died unexpectedly in their sleep had often dreamed their way into Tel’aran’rhiod and in truth had died there. He was well out of it, back into an ordinary dream.
It had started raining outside, a light fall that made the darkness that much deeper.
Women were always dusting and straightening, even things that did not need it.
‘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!’
Soon the sun would be edging above the horizon. Morning. A time for new hopes; a time to be up and doing.
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.
Yes, a farm had its virtues. A quiet place. No people to bother him.
‘“Do not trouble trouble till trouble troubles you.”
The rumpled bed was the only proof that anyone had stayed here. Already the room had lost the feel of him; it even seemed to smell empty, despite his own scent on the sheets. He never stayed anywhere long enough to make that feel cling past his readiness to leave. Never long enough to put down roots, make it any kind of home.
The Shadow Rising Book 4 of The Wheel of Time
‘Only a fool takes offense at customs different from her own.’
Rhuarc said greed had killed more men than steel.
Just because a people’s ways are different doesn’t mean they are wrong, Rand. You should know that.’
Sometimes he thought women all belonged to a guild, the way craftsmen in cities did. Put a foot wrong with one, and the next ten you met knew of it, and disapproved.
Change comes like an avalanche whether we want it or not.’
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.’
‘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.’
