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Quotes About Struggle

It's all right, son. It's all right." "I've done so much that is terrible." "Nobody walks a difficult path without stumbling now and again. It didn't break you when you fell. That's the important part.
~ Robert Jordan
I feel . . ." Egwene began weakly, and stopped to swallow. Her face was bloodless pale. "I . . . hurt." A tear leaked from one eye. "Of course you do," Sorilea said briskly. "That is what happens when you let yourself be caught in a man's schemes.
~ Robert Jordan
He was a soldier. He was a shepherd. He was a beggar, and a king. He was a farmer, gleeman, sailor, carpenter. He was born, lived, and died Aiel. He died mad, he died rotting, he died of sickness, accident, age. He was executed, and multitudes cheered his death. He proclaimed himself the Dragon Reborn and flung his banner across the sky; he ran from the Power and hid; he lived and died never knowing.
~ Robert Jordan
Perrin ergueu o machado para atirá-lo no lago, mas Elyas agarrou seu pulso. Você vai usá-lo, garoto, e, enquanto odiar usá-lo, vai usá-lo com mais sabedoria do que a maioria dos homens. Espere. Se algum dia você não o odiar mais, aí sim será hora de jogá-lo o mais longe que puder e correr para o outro lado .
~ Robert Jordan
You couldn't make a thing until you understood its parts. He wouldn't know how to deal with—or reject—the wolf inside him until he understood the wolf dream.
~ Robert Jordan
He could end it. Only, he could not. He was going to die, perhaps the world would die, but he could not make himself kill another woman. Somehow
~ Robert Jordan
Aemon had sent out messengers. Aid was promised if they could hold for but three days at the Tarendrelle. Hold for three days against odds that should overwhelm them in the first hour. Yet somehow, through bloody assault and desperate defense, they held through an hour, and the second hour, and the third. For three days they fought, and though the land became a butcher's yard, no crossing of the Tarendrelle did they yield.
~ Robert Jordan
These days, only the heat of anger gave him the strength to keep moving.
~ Robert Jordan
Even Warders would break if she loosed the lightnings on them, and balefire, and broke the ground under their feet. Balefire? she wondered. But it would also do no good if she broke Tar Valon's power to save Rand. She had to save both.
~ Robert Jordan
What had to be endured, could be.
~ Robert Jordan
Royal line of Andor would be the key to defeating the Dark One in the Last Battle.
~ Robert Jordan
Creator made women so men would not find life too easy.
~ Robert Jordan
Death rides on my shoulder, Lews Therin muttered. Death walks in my footsteps. I am death.
~ Robert Jordan
Egwene struggled visibly, latching onto the smallest part, the most inconsequential, of what Moiraine had said. "How can reading put him in trouble?
~ Robert Jordan
own ears alone. "They cannot possibly take it, but. . . ." She took a
~ Robert Jordan
Well, heroes got patted on the head, then pushed out of the way until the next time a hero was needed, if they survived being a hero in the first place. Very often, heroes did not.
~ Robert Jordan
Here or there, it is the same fight, I think," Loial
~ Robert Jordan
Luchar contra el Oscuro mientras el hierro conserve su dureza y haya piedras a mano. Defender a los malkieri mientras quede una gota de sangre en las venas. Vengar lo que no pueda defenderse.»
~ Robert Jordan
The male and female halves of the True Source were alike and unalike, attracting and repelling, fighting against each other even as they worked together to drive the Wheel of Time.
~ Robert Jordan
His huge, ambitious Wheel of Time series helped redefine the genre." —George R. R. Martin, internationally bestselling author of A Game of Thrones
~ Robert Jordan
It could crush you, that despair. But the act of creating something—anything—fought back.
~ Robert Jordan
I ran from you as hard as I could to shield my honor. And you followed me even here. The rings do not lie, and I can run no more. Her tone firmed decisively. I will run no more.
~ Robert Jordan
The White Tower will be whole again, except for remnants cast out and scorned, whole and stronger than ever. Rand al'Thor will face the Amyrlin Seat and know her anger. The Black Tower will be rent in blood and fire, and sisters will walk its grounds. This I Foretell.
~ Robert Jordan
Robert Jordan
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