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A Memory of Light (The Wheel of Time, #14) QUOTES

A Memory of Light (The Wheel of Time, #14) QUOTES

1 " It's not evil, Rand. I know something evil when I smell it. This isn't evil, it's just incredibly stupid. "

― Robert Jordan , A Memory of Light (The Wheel of Time, #14)

2 " You're welcome in my house when this is over. We'll open a cask of Master al'Vere's best brandy. We'll remember those who fell, and we'll tell our children how we stood when the clouds turned black and the world started to die. We'll tell them we stood shoulder to shoulder, and there was just no space for the Shadow to squeeze through. "

― Robert Jordan , A Memory of Light (The Wheel of Time, #14)

3 " Yes, I'm alive," Mat said. "I'm usually pretty good at staying alive. I've only failed one time that I can remember, and it hardly counts. "

― Robert Jordan , A Memory of Light (The Wheel of Time, #14)

4 " Loial, son of Arent, son of Halen, had secretly always wanted to be hasty. "

― Robert Jordan , A Memory of Light (The Wheel of Time, #14)

5 " I have never known anyone else," Egwene said to him, "who will work so hard to avoid hard work, Matrim Cauthon. "

― Robert Jordan , A Memory of Light (The Wheel of Time, #14)

6 " Come to think of it, an Aes Sedai would probably follow a man off a cliff, too, if only to explain to him - in detail - all the things he was doing incorrectly in the way he went about killing himself. "

― Robert Jordan , A Memory of Light (The Wheel of Time, #14)

7 " I love words," Mat said. "There are some deliciously pretty words out there. 'Smile.' That's always sounded like a pretty word to me. Don't you think? Or, perhaps, the words 'I promise not to kill Egwene right now for trying to touch me, the Empress, may I live forever, because we really bloody need her for the next couple of weeks or so.'" He eyeed Fortuona pointedly. "

― Robert Jordan , A Memory of Light (The Wheel of Time, #14)

8 " I had long wondered," Lan said to Tam. "About the man who had given Rand that heron-marked blade. I wondered if he had truly earned it. Now I know." Lan raised his own sword in salute. "

― Robert Jordan , A Memory of Light (The Wheel of Time, #14)

9 " When you saw me with a dagger in hand - as if to throw at you - you didn't call for your guards. You didn't fear I was here to kill you. You looked over your shoulder to see what I was aiming at. That's the most loving gesture I think a man could receive from a woman. Unless you'd like to sit on my knee for a while... "

― Robert Jordan , A Memory of Light (The Wheel of Time, #14)

10 " But it was an ending. "

― Robert Jordan , A Memory of Light (The Wheel of Time, #14)

11 " You're not asking me to guess the mind of Matrim Cauthon, are you?" Elayne asked. "I'm convinced that Mat only acts simple so that people will let him get away with more. "

― Robert Jordan , A Memory of Light (The Wheel of Time, #14)

12 " There were many good years. Good decades, good centuries. We believed we were living in paradise. Perhaps that was our downfall. We wanted our lives to be perfect, so we ignored imperfections. Problems were magnified through inattention and war might have become inevitable if the Bore hadn't ever made. "

― Robert Jordan , A Memory of Light (The Wheel of Time, #14)

13 " All men are ignorant, Aes Sedai. The topics of our ignorance may change, but the nature of the world is that no man may know everything. "

― Robert Jordan , A Memory of Light (The Wheel of Time, #14)

14 " If any of these women had been here instead of Nynaeve, the world would have ended. "

― Robert Jordan , A Memory of Light (The Wheel of Time, #14)

15 " I figured that once you’ve decided to jump off a cliff, you might as well pick the highest one. Why accept the risk, if not for the greatest prize? "

― Robert Jordan , A Memory of Light (The Wheel of Time, #14)

16 " He let them be heroes. "

― Robert Jordan , A Memory of Light (The Wheel of Time, #14)

17 " The Last Battle was not hope. The Last Battle was death. But it was a place to be, a place to go. "

― Robert Jordan , A Memory of Light (The Wheel of Time, #14)

18 " Knock a man down, and you saw what he was made of. That man might run. If he didn’t—if he stood back up with blood at the corner of his mouth and determination in his eyes—then you knew. That man was about to become truly dangerous. "

― Robert Jordan , A Memory of Light (The Wheel of Time, #14)

19 " Blood and bloody ashes. Even dead women treated him the way Nynaeve did. Where did they learn it? Were there secret lessons? "

― Robert Jordan , A Memory of Light (The Wheel of Time, #14)

20 " I've come to give you your gift back, Mordeth," Cauthon whispered. "I consider our debt paid in full. "

― Robert Jordan , A Memory of Light (The Wheel of Time, #14)