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“It had to be told,” Rand said. They had a right to know. A man shouldn’t have to live a lie.
She usually seemed to own a foot more height than she actually had, and her eyes were all confidence and command.
“Life is a dream from which we all must wake before we can dream again.
Letting emotions go clouds judgment for a moment, but holding them in clouds it always.
The world had changed since then. Or maybe she only saw the world differently.
not. There was an old saying that she had never really understood before: “He strains to hear a whisper who refuses to hear a shout.” She would not shout at Rand again. A quiet, firm, womanly voice, that was the thing.
‘Take what you want, and pay for it.’
‘A gnarled old branch dulls the blade that severs a sapling.’
‘A fool puts a burr under the saddle before she rides.’
How long now had he been doing what was necessary instead of what was right? In a fair world, they would be one and the same.
Killing was as easy as dying, so the Aiel said; any fool could do either.
“I am glad he is taking it so well. He has the habit of feeling guilty over things he cannot control.” “Men always believe they are in control of everything around them,” Aviendha replied. “When they find out they are not, they think they have failed, instead of learning a simple truth women already know.”
Always leave a way out, unless you really want to find out how hard a man can fight when he’s nothing to lose.”
Victory settles a lot of arguments in most men’s heads.”
“The Creator made women to please the eye and trouble the mind.”
“We are alike in many ways, you and I. There is a darkness in us. Darkness, pain, death. They radiate from us. If ever you love a woman, Rand, leave her and let her find another. It will be the best gift you can give her.”
Take what you can have. Rejoice in what you can save, and do not mourn your losses too long.
“Peace is far off yet,” he said softly. “It will be blood and death for some time to come.” “It always is,” Bashere replied quietly,
