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The Dragon Reborn; humanity’s only hope—and a man who could channel.
And I don’t need to tell you that you will take what each day brings, whatever it is, and be ready to face the next.
Sometimes, the same breast that held fear, held hope. Hope of salvation and fear of destruction, from the same source.
“I follow you because you are who you are,” Bashere said quietly. “The world must follow you, or those who survive will wish themselves dead.”
the world had to be faced as it was, not as you wished it to be—but
Surprise is the key to victory, and speed is the key to surprise. For the soldier, speed is life.’”
If I could find a way to escape my destiny, do I deserve to?
There was a price to be paid for any decision he made. There was a price for who he was. Other people paid it. He had to keep reminding himself that it was a far smaller price than they would pay without him. The reminder did not help much, though.
“The lion sword, the dedicated spear, she who sees beyond. Three on the boat, and he who is dead yet lives. The great battle done, but the world not done with battle. The land divided by the return, and the guardians balance the servants. The future teeters on the edge of a blade.”
Elayne, forcing him to his knees with one hand. Elayne and Min and Aviendha, sitting in a silent circle around him, each in turn reaching out to lay a hand on him. Him walking toward a burning mountain, something crunching beneath his boots. She stirred and whimpered; the crunching things were the seals on the Dark One’s prison, shattering with his every step. She knew it. She did not need to see them to know.
How people see you first is what they hold hardest in their minds. It is the way of the world. You can step down from a throne, and even if you behave like a farmer in a pigsty, some part in each of them will remember that you did descend from a throne. But if they see only a young man first, a country man, they will resent him stepping up to his throne later, whatever his right, whatever his power.
Twenty-five years ago, more now, the Daughter-Heir of Andor vanished in the night. Her name was Tigraine. She left behind a husband, Taringail, and a son, Galad. I know it is only chance, yet I see Tigraine in your face. It was a shock.”
A prayer will not hurt, even if it doesn’t help either.”
The key to finding the bowl is to find the one who is no longer.”
“Women do not become exhausted,” Haman said, “they only exhaust others. That is a very old saying among us.”
Never prod at a woman unless you must. She will kill you faster than a man and for less reason, even if she weeps over it after.
He had four rules concerning action and information. Never make a plan without knowing as much as you can of the enemy. Never be afraid to change your plans when you receive new information. Never believe you know everything. And never wait to know everything. The man who waited to know everything was still sitting in his tent when the enemy burned it over his head.
We are always more afraid than we wish to be, but we can always be braver than we expect.
Countless thousands of sparkling lights, like stars or fireflies, rushed into a great blackness, trying to fill it up, rushed in and were swallowed. There seemed to be more lights than she had ever seen before, but the darkness swallowed them at a greater rate, too. And there was something else, something new, an aura of yellow and brown and purple that made her stomach clench.
Trust is the color of a heart’s blood flowing. Trust is the color of a soul’s last breath. Trust is the color of death.
“Boy, the Creator never made the Houses. Some forget it, but go far enough back in any House, and you’ll find a commoner who showed uncommon courage or kept his head and took charge when everybody else was running around like plucked geese.
“A fool moans when fortune takes him down, and it takes a true fool to moan when fortune takes him up.
“If a woman is stronger than her husband, she comes to despise him. She has the choice of either tyrannizing him or else making herself less in order not to make him less. If the husband is strong enough though . . .” She poked him again, even harder. “. . . she can be as strong as she is, as strong as she can grow to be.
Do what you must, and pay the price if you’re wrong. Sometimes if you are right, too.”
“Asha’man, kill!”
“Kneel and swear to the Lord Dragon,” he said softly, “or you will be knelt.”
The first nine Aes Sedai swore fealty to the Dragon Reborn, and the world was changed forever.
