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• Always plan for the worst, child; that way, all your surprises will be pleasant ones.

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  Children, Way, Surprise

  "The Dragon Reborn: Book Three of 'The Wheel of Time'".

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• A man without trust is a man without life.

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  Life, Men, Without Trust

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• I will hate the man you choose because he isn't me, and love him if he makes you smile.

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  Love, Hate, Men

  "The Eye of the World". Book by Robert Jordan, 1990.

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• The only way was forward, whatever lay at the end.

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  Way, Ends, Lays

  Robert Jordan (2010). “New Spring: A Wheel of Time Prequel”, p.229, Hachette UK

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• In a cruel land, you either learned to laugh at cruelty or spent your life weeping.

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  Land, Laughing, Cruelty

  Robert Jordan (2010). “A Crown of Swords: Book Seven of 'The Wheel of Time'”, p.193, Macmillan

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• He was swimming in a sea of other people’s expectations. Men had drowned in seas like that.

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  Swimming, Men, Sea

  Robert Jordan (2005). “New Spring: The Novel”, p.298, Macmillan

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• Fantasy is an area where it is possible to talk about right and wrong, good and evil, with a straight face. In mainstream fiction and even in a good deal of mystery, these things are presented as simply two sides of the same coin. Never really more than a matter of where you happen to be standing.

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  Two Sides, Evil, Fiction

  "Robert Jordan chats about his 'Wheel of Time' series". Live chat, www.cnn.com. December 12, 2000.

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• What you want is what you cannot have. What you cannot have is what you want.

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  Want, What You Want

  Robert Jordan (2010). “Lord of Chaos: Book Six of 'The Wheel of Time'”, p.377, Macmillan

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• The Creator made women to please the eye, and to boggle the mind.

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  Women, Eye, Mind

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• Men always believe they are in control of everything around them. When they find out they are not, they think they have failed, instead of learning a simple truth women already know.

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  Believe, Simple, Men

  Robert Jordan (2010). “The Fires of Heaven: Book Five of 'The Wheel of Time'”, p.383, Macmillan

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• Run when you have to, fight when you must, rest when you can.

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  Running, Fighting

  Robert Jordan (2000). “The Eye of the World: Book One of 'The Wheel of Time'”, p.380, Macmillan

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• Death comes to us all; we can only choose how to face it when it comes.

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  Faces, Wheel Of Time, Wot

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• The fact that the price must be paid is proof it is worth paying.

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  Facts, Wheel Of Time, Proof

  Robert Jordan (2000). “The Eye of the World: Book One of 'The Wheel of Time'”, p.250, Macmillan

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• Better ten days of love than years of regretting.

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  Regret, Years, Wheel Of Time

  Robert Jordan (2016). “The Wheel of Time: Books 1–4”, p.951, Macmillan

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• The rose petal floats on water. The kingfisher flashes above the pond. Life and beauty swirl in the midst of death.

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  Water, Rose, Ponds

  Robert Jordan (2016). “The Wheel of Time: Books 1–4”, p.419, Macmillan

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• Caution once forgotten could be forgotten once too often.

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  Forgotten, Caution

  Robert Jordan (2010). “Lord Of Chaos: Book 6 of the Wheel of Time”, p.494, Hachette UK

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• If you can't hide what you are going to do, do it so everybody thinks you are a fool.

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  Thinking, Fool, Ifs

  Robert Jordan (2002). “The Dragon Reborn: Book Three of 'The Wheel of Time'”, p.342, Macmillan

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• To fight the raven you may make alliance with the serpent until the battle is done.

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  Fighting, Ravens, Battle

  Robert Jordan (2010). “Knife of Dreams: Book Eleven of 'The Wheel of Time'”, p.14, Macmillan

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• Whether the bear beats the wolf or the wolf beats the bear, the rabbit always loses.

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  Rabbits, Bears, Beats

  Robert Jordan, Chuck Dixon (2013). “The Eye of the World: the Graphic Novel, Volume Two”, p.121, Macmillan

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• The Wheel of Time turns, and Ages come and pass, leaving memories that become legend. Legend fades to myth, and even myth is long forgotten when the Age that gave it birth comes again. In one Age, called the Third Age by some, an Age yet to come, an Age long past, a wind rose in the Mountains of Mist. The wind was not the beginning. There are neither beginnings nor endings to the turning of the Wheel of Time. But it was a beginning.

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  Memories, Past, Wind

  Robert Jordan (2002). “From The Two Rivers: The Eye of the World”, p.1, Macmillan

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• A cat for a hat, or a hat for a cat. But nothing for nothing.

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  Cat, Hats

  "Lord of Chaos". Book by Robert Jordan, 1994.

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• Take what you want, and pay for it.

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  Want, Pay, What You Want

  Robert Jordan (2010). “The Fires of Heaven: Book Five of 'The Wheel of Time'”, p.301, Macmillan

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• We rode on the winds of the rising storm, We ran to the sounds of the thunder. We danced among the lightning bolts, and tore the world asunder.

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  Wind, Storm, Lightning

  Robert Jordan (2010). “Crossroads of Twilight: Book Ten of 'The Wheel of Time'”, p.601, Macmillan

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• Any day you wake up, maybe you die.

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  Wake Up, Dies

  Robert Jordan (2010). “Knife of Dreams: Book Eleven of 'The Wheel of Time'”, p.395, Macmillan

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• Almost dead yesterday, maybe dead tomorrow, but alive, gloriously alive, today. -- Mat Cauthon

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  Yesterday, Alive, Today

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