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101 " In wars, boy, fools kill other fools for foolish causes. "
― Robert Jordan , The Eye of the World (The Wheel of Time, #1)
102 " Why, to see, Loial said as if it were the most obvious thing in the world. I read the books, all the travelers' accounts, and it began to burn in me that I had to see, not just read. "
103 " The Wheel weaves as the Wheel wills, "
104 " Take life as it comes. Run when you have to, fight when you must, rest when you can. "
105 " All women are Aes Sedai. "
106 " He said the Dark One intended to blind the Eye of the World, and slay the Great Serpent, kill time itself. "
107 " But we are alive at this moment, and before us is the hope of remaining alive. Do not surrender before you are beaten, Ogier. "
108 " There are neither beginnings nor endings to the turning of the Wheel of Time. But it was a beginning. "
109 " You’ll use it, boy, and as long as you hate using it, you will use it more wisely than most men would. "
110 " In the last, lorn fight ’gainst the fall of long night, the mountains stand guard, and the dead shall be ward, for the grave is no bar to my call. "
111 " La Rueda del Tiempo gira y las eras pasan y dejan tras de sí recuerdos que se convierten en leyenda. La leyenda se difumina, deviene en mito, e incluso el mito se ha olvidado mucho antes de que la era que lo vio nacer retorne de nuevo. En una era llamada la tercera por algunos, una era que ja de venir, una era transcurrida hace mucho, comenzó a soplar un viento... "
112 " One of the Prophecies says that the Stone of Tear will never fall until the People of the Dragon come to the Stone. Another says the Stone will never fall till the Sword That Cannot Be Touched is wielded by the Dragon’s hand. "
113 " No one can tell how the thread of his own life will be woven into the Pattern, or how the thread of a people will be woven. It "
114 " If wishes were wings, sheep would fly. "
115 " and if you ever go back, your village’ll no be big enough to hold you. "
116 " They don’t even know what the song is; they claim they’ll know it when they find it. They don’t know how it’s supposed to bring paradise, either, but they’ve been looking near to three thousand years, ever since the Breaking. I expect they’ll be looking until the Wheel stops turning. "
117 " Among Aiel, men do not sing, you know. Isn’t that strange? From the time an Aiel boy becomes a man he will not sing anything but battle chants, or their dirge for the slain. I have heard them singing over their dead, and over those they have killed. That song is one to make the stones weep. "
118 " Wood is soft compared to steel, but the sharp steel is dulled as it chops, and the sap of the tree will rust and pit it. The mighty axe does violence to the helpless tree, and is harmed by it. So it is with men, though the harm is in the spirit. "
119 " You stand up straw men,” Nynaeve said. “We have a saying in the Two Rivers. ‘Whether the bear beats the wolf or the wolf beats the bear, the rabbit always loses. "
120 " The Wheel of Time weaves the Pattern of the Ages, and lives are the threads it weaves. No one can tell how the thread of his own life will be woven into the Pattern, or how the thread of a people will be woven. It gave us the Breaking of the World, and the Exile, and Stone, and the Longing, and eventually it gave us back the stedding before we all died. Sometimes I think the reason you humans are the way you are is because your threads are so short. "