The Great Hunt: Book Two of 'The Wheel of Time' by Robert Jordan

The Great Hunt: Book Two of ‘The Wheel of Time’ by Robert Jordan

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Patience had marked much of his life. Always, if he waited and watched long enough, someone made a mistake.
<The Great Hunt: Book Two of 'The Wheel of Time'>(Jordan, Robert) Your Highlight on page 16 | Location 182-183  2021-05-10 23:31:22



The muscular, curly-haired youth; the farmer with the sword; and the lad with the look of mischief on his face. Already, in his mind, the man who called himself Bors had named them the Blacksmith, the Swordsman, and the Trickster.
<The Great Hunt: Book Two of 'The Wheel of Time'>(Jordan, Robert) Your Highlight on page 25 | Location 377-379  2021-05-11 23:13:23



There are neither beginnings nor endings to the turning of the Wheel of Time. But it was a beginning.
<The Great Hunt: Book Two of 'The Wheel of Time'>(Jordan, Robert) Your Highlight on page 27 | Location 410-411  2021-05-11 23:15:44



when it was done, the Aes Sedai who still lived swore they would never again make a weapon for one man to kill another. Every Aes Sedai swore it, and every woman of them since has kept that oath. Even the Red Ajah, and they care little what happens to any male.
<The Great Hunt: Book Two of 'The Wheel of Time'>(Jordan, Robert) Your Highlight on page 31 | Location 500-503  2021-05-11 23:23:34



“One of those swords, a plain soldier’s sword”—with a faint grimace, almost sad, if the Warder could be said to show emotion, he slid the blade back into its sheath—“became something more. On the other hand, those made for lord-generals, with blades so hard no bladesmith could mark them, yet marked already with a heron, those blades became sought after.”
<The Great Hunt: Book Two of 'The Wheel of Time'>(Jordan, Robert) Your Highlight on page 32 | Location 503-506  2021-05-11 23:24:41



It was his name that caused the problem, and a similarity. Rand al’Thor. Al’Lan Mandragoran. For Lan, according to the custom of Malkier, the royal “al” named him King, though he never used it himself. For Rand, “al” was just a part of his name, though he had heard that once, long ago, before the Two Rivers was called the Two Rivers, it had meant “son of.” Some of the servants in Fal Dara keep, though, had taken it to mean he was a king, too, or at least a prince.
<The Great Hunt: Book Two of 'The Wheel of Time'>(Jordan, Robert) Your Highlight on page 45 | Location 774-778  2021-05-11 23:42:38



If the girl shows as much initiative in Tar Valon, she thought wryly, she will sit in the Amyrlin Seat one day. If she can learn to control that initiative. If there is an Amyrlin Seat left on which to sit.
<The Great Hunt: Book Two of 'The Wheel of Time'>(Jordan, Robert) Your Highlight on page 71 | Location 1284-1286  2021-05-13 23:50:34



In all of recorded history there had been only a handful of queens with the right to be called Aes Sedai, and the few who let it be known had all lived to regret it.
<The Great Hunt: Book Two of 'The Wheel of Time'>(Jordan, Robert) Your Highlight on page 73 | Location 1316-1317  2021-05-13 23:53:19



Elayne could well be the most powerful Aes Sedai in a thousand years, and it is the Red Ajah who found her.
<The Great Hunt: Book Two of 'The Wheel of Time'>(Jordan, Robert) Your Highlight on page 77 | Location 1392-1392  2021-05-14 23:53:27



Egwene, a village girl, is at least as strong as Elayne.
<The Great Hunt: Book Two of 'The Wheel of Time'>(Jordan, Robert) Your Highlight on page 77 | Location 1395-1396  2021-05-14 23:53:52



The ancient symbol of Aes Sedai, before the world was broken, when men and women wielded the Power together. Half of it was now called the Flame of Tar Valon; the other half was scrawled on doors, the Dragon’s Fang, to accuse those within of evil.
<The Great Hunt: Book Two of 'The Wheel of Time'>(Jordan, Robert) Your Highlight on page 86 | Location 1567-1569  2021-05-16 00:53:50



“Rand al’Thor will stand before the world as the Dragon Reborn.”
<The Great Hunt: Book Two of 'The Wheel of Time'>(Jordan, Robert) Your Highlight on page 87 | Location 1588-1589  2021-05-16 00:55:34



The Amyrlin shuddered. “Rand al’Thor. It does not sound like a name to inspire fear and set the world on fire.”
<The Great Hunt: Book Two of 'The Wheel of Time'>(Jordan, Robert) Your Highlight on page 87 | Location 1589-1590  2021-05-16 00:55:57



“I have the means to see him named Dragon whether he wills it or not. And even if I somehow fail, the Pattern itself will see him named Dragon whether he wills it or not. Remember, he is ta’veren, Siuan. He has no more control over his fate than a candle wick has over the flame.”
<The Great Hunt: Book Two of 'The Wheel of Time'>(Jordan, Robert) Your Highlight on page 89 | Location 1632-1634  2021-05-16 00:59:32



They did not like the name Questioners.
<The Great Hunt: Book Two of 'The Wheel of Time'>(Jordan, Robert) Your Highlight on page 92 | Location 1690-1690  2021-05-16 23:55:26



There is hardly a nation that truly controls the land it claims on a map, and there is hardly a land that claims today on a map what it did even a hundred years ago.
<The Great Hunt: Book Two of 'The Wheel of Time'>(Jordan, Robert) Your Highlight on page 187 | Location 3674-3675  2021-05-19 22:55:54



Hold on, you wool-headed idiot. If you get yourself killed before I can get you out of this, I will skin you alive.
<The Great Hunt: Book Two of 'The Wheel of Time'>(Jordan, Robert) Your Highlight on page 216 | Location 4251-4251  2021-05-22 00:03:54



“Everything is . . . linked, Rand. Whether it lives or not, whether it thinks or not, everything that is, fits together.
<The Great Hunt: Book Two of 'The Wheel of Time'>(Jordan, Robert) Your Highlight on page 236 | Location 4631-4632  2021-05-23 00:02:32



“Everything is . . . linked, Rand. Whether it lives or not, whether it thinks or not, everything that is, fits together. The tree does not think, but it is part of the whole, and the whole has a—a feeling. I can’t explain any more than I can explain what being happy is, but. . . . Rand, this land was glad for a weapon to be made. Glad!” “The Light shine on us,” Hurin murmured nervously, “and the Creator’s hand shelter us. Though we go to the last embrace of the mother, the Light illumine our way.” He kept repeating the catechism as if it had a charm to protect him. Rand resisted the impulse to look around. He definitely did not look up. All it would take to break them all was another of those smoky lines across the sky right at that moment. “There’s
<The Great Hunt: Book Two of 'The Wheel of Time'>(Jordan, Robert) Your Highlight on page 236 | Location 4631-4638  2021-05-23 00:02:15



“Offend me? I am not offended, but I’m no Aes Sedai.” Her lip curled in a sneer; even that was beautiful. “They cower in what they think is safety when they could do so much. They serve when they could rule, let men fight wars when they could bring order to the world. No, never call me Aes Sedai.”
<The Great Hunt: Book Two of 'The Wheel of Time'>(Jordan, Robert) Your Highlight on page 253 | Location 4999-5001  2021-05-25 23:54:02



She says there are worlds where it is time rather than distance that changes. Spend a day in one of those, and you might come back to find a year has passed in the real world, or twenty. Or it could be the other way round. Those worlds—this one, all the others—are reflections of the real world, she says. This one seems pale to us because it is a weak reflection, a world that had little chance of ever being. Others are almost as likely as ours. Those are as solid as our world, and have people. The same people, she says, Rand. Imagine it! You could go to one of them and meet yourself. The Pattern has infinite variation, she says, and every variation that can be, will be.”
<The Great Hunt: Book Two of 'The Wheel of Time'>(Jordan, Robert) Your Highlight on page 255 | Location 5024-5029  2021-05-25 23:56:34



“Request,” Min snorted. “When an Aes Sedai requests your presence, it’s like a command from a queen with a hundred soldiers to back it up.”
<The Great Hunt: Book Two of 'The Wheel of Time'>(Jordan, Robert) Your Highlight on page 346 | Location 6855-6856  2021-05-31 00:06:17



Twice and twice shall he be marked, twice to live, and twice to die. Once the heron, to set his path. Twice the heron, to name him true. Once the Dragon, for remembrance lost. Twice the Dragon, for the price he must pay.
<The Great Hunt: Book Two of 'The Wheel of Time'>(Jordan, Robert) Your Highlight on page 369 | Location 7315-7320  2021-06-01 17:06:22



“I have no pipers to play the tune,” the man announced with a smile, “but if you wish the dance. . . .” He did not change his stance, but Perrin caught a sudden air of readiness. “My name is Urien, of the Two Spires sept of the Reyn Aiel. I am a Red Shield. Remember me.”
<The Great Hunt: Book Two of 'The Wheel of Time'>(Jordan, Robert) Your Highlight on page 388 | Location 7706-7709  2021-06-02 00:24:15



Aes Sedai never lie, but the truth you hear may not be the truth you think it is.
<The Great Hunt: Book Two of 'The Wheel of Time'>(Jordan, Robert) Your Highlight on page 437 | Location 8656-8657  2021-06-06 23:42:08



“Jump in a hole without looking, and there’ll be a snake in it every time.”
<The Great Hunt: Book Two of 'The Wheel of Time'>(Jordan, Robert) Your Highlight on page 447 | Location 8851-8852  2021-06-07 23:27:38



and his knees. “We’ll never follow Fain through that.” Rand touched Loial’s arm. “Thank you. You did save us.” You saved me, at least. It was killing me. Killing me, and it felt—wonderful
<The Great Hunt: Book Two of 'The Wheel of Time'>(Jordan, Robert) Your Highlight on page 449 | Location 8913-8915  2021-06-07 23:32:19



She found it hard to think that there had been a time when she had been eager to have an adventure, to do something dangerous and exciting like the people in stories. Now she thought the exciting part was what you remembered when you looked back, and the stories left out a good deal of unpleasantness
<The Great Hunt: Book Two of 'The Wheel of Time'>(Jordan, Robert) Your Highlight on page 518 | Location 10228-10230  2021-06-11 23:06:10



A man’s ring of heavy gold floated above Nynaeve’s head, and above Elayne’s, a red-hot iron and an axe.
<The Great Hunt: Book Two of 'The Wheel of Time'>(Jordan, Robert) Your Highlight on page 566 | Location 11184-11185  2021-06-16 00:24:14



“Five will ride forth.”
<The Great Hunt: Book Two of 'The Wheel of Time'>(Jordan, Robert) Your Highlight on page 579 | Location 11447-11448  2021-06-17 00:33:45

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