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The Fires of Heaven (The Wheel of Time, #5) QUOTES

The Fires of Heaven (The Wheel of Time, #5) QUOTES

1 " Life is a dream from which we all must wake before we can dream again. "

― Robert Jordan , The Fires of Heaven (The Wheel of Time, #5)

2 " I always say, if you must mount the gallows, give a jest to the crowd, a coin to the hangman, and make the drop with a smile on your lips. "

― Robert Jordan , The Fires of Heaven (The Wheel of Time, #5)

3 " Only a battle lost is sadder than a battle won. "

― Robert Jordan , The Fires of Heaven (The Wheel of Time, #5)

4 " Waiting turns men into bears in a barn, and women into cats in a sack. "

― Robert Jordan , The Fires of Heaven (The Wheel of Time, #5)

5 " In Shinear, a woman [is] safe anywhere, any time-except from Trollocs and Myrddraal, of course-and any man [will] die to see it so. "

― Robert Jordan , The Fires of Heaven (The Wheel of Time, #5)

6 " The oak fought the wind and was broken, the willow bent when it must and survived. "

― Robert Jordan , The Fires of Heaven (The Wheel of Time, #5)

7 " Always leave a way out, unless you really want to find out how hard a man can fight when he’s nothing to lose. "

― Robert Jordan , The Fires of Heaven (The Wheel of Time, #5)

8 " Victory settles a lot of arguments in most men's heads. "

― Robert Jordan , The Fires of Heaven (The Wheel of Time, #5)

9 " Storms rumble beyond the horizon, and the fires of heaven purge the earth. There is no salvation without destruction, no hope this side of death. "

― Robert Jordan , The Fires of Heaven (The Wheel of Time, #5)

10 " At my age, if I make it up, it's still an old saying. "

― Robert Jordan , The Fires of Heaven (The Wheel of Time, #5)

11 " When a woman says she will obey you, of her own will, it is time to sleep lightly and watch your back. "

― Robert Jordan , The Fires of Heaven (The Wheel of Time, #5)

12 " How long had he been doing what was necessary instead of what was right? In a fair world they would be one and the same. "

― Robert Jordan , The Fires of Heaven (The Wheel of Time, #5)

13 " Sene sovya caba'donde ain dovienya "

― Robert Jordan , The Fires of Heaven (The Wheel of Time, #5)

14 " Good morrow, High Lord Weiramon, and all you other High Lords and Ladies. I'm a gambler, a farmboy, and I'm here to take command of your bloody army! The bloody lord Dragon Reborn will be with us as soon as he flaming takes care of one bloody little matter! "

― Robert Jordan , The Fires of Heaven (The Wheel of Time, #5)

15 " A spoonful of hope and a cup of despair "

― Robert Jordan , The Fires of Heaven (The Wheel of Time, #5)

16 " She was a soldier, a warrior in her way as much as I. This could have happened two hundred times these past twenty years. She knew it, and so did I. It was a good day to die. "

― Robert Jordan , The Fires of Heaven (The Wheel of Time, #5)

17 " We are alike in many ways, you and I. There is 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. "

― Robert Jordan , The Fires of Heaven (The Wheel of Time, #5)

18 " A man can get killed in there. "

― Robert Jordan , The Fires of Heaven (The Wheel of Time, #5)

19 " There's an old saying in the Two Rivers" Rand said dryly. "'The louder a man tells you he's honest, the harder you must hold on to your purse.'" Another said, "The fox often offers to give the duck its pond. "

― Robert Jordan , The Fires of Heaven (The Wheel of Time, #5)

20 " Past is past, and the future is ahead. "

― Robert Jordan , The Fires of Heaven (The Wheel of Time, #5)