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"Times are not what they were, and we cannot be, either. If you sit and wish for what you want, you may not see it this side of the grave."
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"All she knew was that she must be in love with someone, or she wouldn't feel so miserable."

"They told us love was a disease. They told us it would kill us in the end.For the very first time I realize, that this, too, might also be a lie."

"If you think that you're so smart and holy, that means you haven't yet realized that a part of what we experience today...is a result of our stupidity and wickedness in the past."

"It's become impossible to deny he means something to me."

"Spending time with you showed me what I've been missing in my life."

"And I realized, that the reason why good things were not happening to me as often as wanted them to, was because I in fact was a good thing that needed to happen. I needed to happen to me, to other people and to the world. And so I happened."

"They were not creating a mess. They were just slowly illuminating it."

"In a very tragic kind of way, sometimes things have to be gone before I fully realize that they were ever there."

"It's not when you realise that nothing can help you - religion, pride, anything - it's when you realise that you don't need any aid."

"We all have been given a gift; if you have not sort it out yet, yours is stupidity."
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"Heroes in the stories never had to sleep in haystacks, or under hedges. But it was not easy to pretend, anymore, that he was a hero in a story."


"Sandar came to stand beside him, frowning down at the crumpled High Lord. "He does not look so mighty lying there," he said wonderingly. "He does not look so much greater than me.""


"Bound by the Oath against lying, Aes Sedai [carry] the half-truth, the quarter-truth and the implication to arts."


"There is some delight in ale and wineAnd some in girls with ankles fineBut my delight, yes always mineIs to dance with Jak O' the ShadowsWe will toss the dice however they fallAnd snuggle the girls be they short or tallThen follow Lord Mat whenever he callsTo dance with Jak O' the Shadows."


"What did you spend so much time talking about with Ila? If you weren't dancing with that long-legged fellow, you were talking to her like it was some kind of secret. "Ila was giving me advice on being a woman, Egwene replied absently. He began laughing, and she gave him a hooded, dangerous look that he failed to see."Advice! Nobody tells us how to be men. We just are." That, Egwene said, "is probably why you make such a bad job of it."


"Who knows a woman's heart? Most women will shrug off what a man would kill you for, and kill you for what a man would shrug off."
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