Blurbos Rating (3.8)
One of the main drawbacks of Crossroads of Twilight is its pacing. The story moves at a glacial pace, serving primarily as a setup for things to come. It still manages to deliver some intriguing moments, but I felt it falls short in terms of pacing and overall impact when compared to other books in the series.
Highlights
Confidence was one key to victory. The other side believing you were confident was sometimes almost as good as actually being confident.
<Crossroads of Twilight: Book Ten of 'The Wheel of Time'>(Jordan, Robert) Highlight on page 22 | Location 134-135 2023-01-10 22:58:45
Hostility was all too usual, nowadays. The invisible walls between the Ajahs, once barely thick enough to hide each Ajah’s own mysteries, had become hard stone ramparts with moats. No, not moats; chasms, deep and wide.
<Crossroads of Twilight: Book Ten of 'The Wheel of Time'>(Jordan, Robert) Highlight on page 39 | Location 484-486 2023-01-13 23:36:27
“You know where to find the man who came to me yesterday? Find him, and tell him I agree, but there will be a few more than we talked about.”
<Crossroads of Twilight: Book Ten of 'The Wheel of Time'>(Jordan, Robert) Highlight on page 65 | Location 996-996 2023-01-14 23:22:34
every league behind us is a league we don’t have to walk tomorrow
<Crossroads of Twilight: Book Ten of 'The Wheel of Time'>(Jordan, Robert) Highlight on page 77 | Location 1237-1237 2023-01-14 23:27:44
“We can’t get where we’re going tonight, Aes Sedai, but every league behind us is a league we don’t have to walk tomorrow
<Crossroads of Twilight: Book Ten of 'The Wheel of Time'>(Jordan, Robert) Highlight on page 77 | Location 1236-1237 2023-01-14 23:27:56
The innocent died along with the guilty. And if you did nothing, then only the innocent died.
<Crossroads of Twilight: Book Ten of 'The Wheel of Time'>(Jordan, Robert) Highlight on page 89 | Location 1462-1462 2023-01-16 23:16:00
Suddenly an old memory tugged at him, of lading ships for an attack from the sea, and how many men could be crowded into how much space for how long. It was not his memory, really, from an ancient war between Fergansea and Moreina, yet it seemed his.
<Crossroads of Twilight: Book Ten of 'The Wheel of Time'>(Jordan, Robert) Highlight on page 91 | Location 1494-1496 2023-01-16 23:19:38
No, among the Seanchan, only the Imperial family shaved their heads. Men who went bald began wearing wigs as soon as their hair started falling out to any noticeable degree.
<Crossroads of Twilight: Book Ten of 'The Wheel of Time'>(Jordan, Robert) Highlight on page 92 | Location 1515-1516 2023-01-16 23:21:19
The stream of people flowing the other way was mostly Seanchan, soldiers in ordered ranks with their segmented armor painted in stripes and helmets that looked like the heads of huge insects, some marching and some mounted, nobles who were always mounted, wearing ornate cloaks, pleated riding dresses and lace veils, or voluminous trousers and long coats.
<Crossroads of Twilight: Book Ten of 'The Wheel of Time'>(Jordan, Robert) Highlight on page 97 | Location 1608-1610 2023-01-17 17:27:28
The sound of dice rolling had started up again in his head, loud enough to rival the occasional rumble of distant thunder.
<Crossroads of Twilight: Book Ten of 'The Wheel of Time'>(Jordan, Robert) Highlight on page 98 | Location 1641-1642 2023-01-17 17:30:21
And Mat and the others galloped out into the storm, carrying with them three Aes Sedai, two of them escaped damane, and the kidnapped heir to the Seanchan Crystal Throne, while behind them a far worse storm broke over Ebou Dar. Lightning bolts more numerous than blades of grass.…
<Crossroads of Twilight: Book Ten of 'The Wheel of Time'>(Jordan, Robert) Highlight on page 100 | Location 1671-1674 2023-01-17 17:33:15
“Lovers arm-in-arm don’t hurry,” he muttered. “They … stroll.” She sneered.
<Crossroads of Twilight: Book Ten of 'The Wheel of Time'>(Jordan, Robert) Highlight on page 100 | Location 1674-1675 2023-01-17 17:34:02
Tuon’s disappearance should have been as shocking as the sun vanishing at noon, but no alarm had been raised. None! No announcements of rewards or offers of ransom, no hot-eyed soldiers searching every wagon and cart within miles, galloping through the countryside to root out every cubbyhole and niche where a woman might be hidden.
<Crossroads of Twilight: Book Ten of 'The Wheel of Time'>(Jordan, Robert) Highlight on page 101 | Location 1687-1689 2023-01-17 17:35:32
Anyway, he had never heard of soldiers who did not get in fights, especially when they were drunk or bored, and bored soldiers tended to get drunk.
<Crossroads of Twilight: Book Ten of 'The Wheel of Time'>(Jordan, Robert) Highlight on page 102 | Location 1720-1721 2023-01-17 17:38:41
That was the story Mat and the others had put around to explain why they were hiding from the Seanchan: a cruel husband and a lovers’ flight.
<Crossroads of Twilight: Book Ten of 'The Wheel of Time'>(Jordan, Robert) Highlight on page 105 | Location 1763-1764 2023-01-17 17:42:56
“Two captains on one ship make sure course for disaster,” Egeanin drawled with overdone patience.
<Crossroads of Twilight: Book Ten of 'The Wheel of Time'>(Jordan, Robert) Highlight on page 114 | Location 1936-1937 2023-01-17 23:20:23
And nine nights past, the High Lady Tuon had vanished as if swallowed by the storm. He did not think of her as the Daughter of the Nine Moons, could not until he knew she was no longer under the veil.
<Crossroads of Twilight: Book Ten of 'The Wheel of Time'>(Jordan, Robert) Highlight on page 141 | Location 2451-2453 2023-01-22 00:59:01
We are trying to catch the wind in a net.”
<Crossroads of Twilight: Book Ten of 'The Wheel of Time'>(Jordan, Robert) Highlight on page 151 | Location 2655-2655 2023-01-22 01:05:50
For the Deathwatch Guard, what must be done, would be done. Even to catching the wind.
<Crossroads of Twilight: Book Ten of 'The Wheel of Time'>(Jordan, Robert) Highlight on page 151 | Location 2659-2660 2023-01-22 01:06:15
Perrin had a strong sense that he also had to be there, was meant to be at least, but if the Last Battle came soon, he would not be.
<Crossroads of Twilight: Book Ten of 'The Wheel of Time'>(Jordan, Robert) Highlight on page 154 | Location 2705-2706 2023-01-22 23:06:31
Perrin had a strong sense that he also had to be there, was meant to be at least, but if the Last Battle came soon, he would not be. He had a job of work in front of him that he could not shirk—would not!—even for Tarmon Gai’don.
<Crossroads of Twilight: Book Ten of 'The Wheel of Time'>(Jordan, Robert) Highlight on page 154 | Location 2705-2707 2023-01-22 23:06:39
No matter what the stories say—by the way, Lord Gallenne, salt doesn’t harm Darkhounds in the least.”
<Crossroads of Twilight: Book Ten of 'The Wheel of Time'>(Jordan, Robert) Highlight on page 188 | Location 3361-3362 2023-01-24 23:11:05
The coming of the Dragon Reborn had broken all bonds, including those that had pledged these men to fight the Shadow along the Blight.
<Crossroads of Twilight: Book Ten of 'The Wheel of Time'>(Jordan, Robert) Highlight on page 192 | Location 3438-3439 2023-01-25 23:13:54
“Fear is a useful spur to the wits, and to determination, when well controlled. If we have no fear of our enemies, that leaves only contempt, and contempt leads to the enemy’s victory.”
<Crossroads of Twilight: Book Ten of 'The Wheel of Time'>(Jordan, Robert) Highlight on page 193 | Location 3461-3462 2023-01-25 23:14:46
“He believes every word he says,” Annoura breathed, “but where does his belief lead him?”
<Crossroads of Twilight: Book Ten of 'The Wheel of Time'>(Jordan, Robert) Highlight on page 196 | Location 3508-3509 2023-01-25 23:17:24
Grays were negotiators and mediators, adjudicators and treaty makers.
<Crossroads of Twilight: Book Ten of 'The Wheel of Time'>(Jordan, Robert) Highlight on page 203 | Location 3650-3650 2023-01-25 23:26:14
He could see everything he wanted to see, and so much less than he needed.
<Crossroads of Twilight: Book Ten of 'The Wheel of Time'>(Jordan, Robert) Highlight on page 209 | Location 3761-3762 2023-01-26 23:01:34
They will embrace the pain and laugh at you. And shame will be slow—if these Shaido can still be shamed.”
<Crossroads of Twilight: Book Ten of 'The Wheel of Time'>(Jordan, Robert) Highlight on page 213 | Location 3843-3845 2023-01-26 23:07:00
Pride said to maintain a cool defiance, a quiet refusal to yield, yet sense said that was the way to find herself guarded twice as closely as she was. The Shaido might take the wetlander gai’shain for domesticated animals, but they were not completely blind.
<Crossroads of Twilight: Book Ten of 'The Wheel of Time'>(Jordan, Robert) Highlight on page 218 | Location 3923-3925 2023-01-27 23:11:51
Water oaths were tighter than oaths of fealty in some ways, yet they left considerable room for stupidity in the name of honor.
<Crossroads of Twilight: Book Ten of 'The Wheel of Time'>(Jordan, Robert) Highlight on page 219 | Location 3955-3956 2023-01-27 23:14:17
The Shaido kept some of the rules regarding gai’shain—women who were pregnant or had children under the age of ten had been let go, and youths under sixteen, and the city’s blacksmiths, who had been both mystified and grateful—but gratitude never entered into it.
<Crossroads of Twilight: Book Ten of 'The Wheel of Time'>(Jordan, Robert) Highlight on page 220 | Location 3983-3986 2023-01-27 23:16:54
Tears could get in your way if you let them, but a few tears shed at night could help you make it through the next day.
<Crossroads of Twilight: Book Ten of 'The Wheel of Time'>(Jordan, Robert) Highlight on page 225 | Location 4073-4074 2023-01-27 23:23:28
Men tended to underestimate a woman carrying weapons until they faced one, and even most other women tended to think her a brainless fool.
<Crossroads of Twilight: Book Ten of 'The Wheel of Time'>(Jordan, Robert) Highlight on page 247 | Location 4495-4496 2023-02-02 23:27:13
A bodyguard her enemies would dismiss until it was too late for more than regrets was her aim.
<Crossroads of Twilight: Book Ten of 'The Wheel of Time'>(Jordan, Robert) Highlight on page 247 | Location 4498-4498 2023-02-02 23:27:31
She felt like an ant that had just become aware of mountains, an ant comparing the Spine of the World to the hills it had always held in awe.
<Crossroads of Twilight: Book Ten of 'The Wheel of Time'>(Jordan, Robert) Highlight on page 255 | Location 4640-4641 2023-02-03 22:51:18
House Mantear had lost the throne to Trakand when Mordrellen died only because Tigraine, the Daughter-Heir, had vanished
<Crossroads of Twilight: Book Ten of 'The Wheel of Time'>(Jordan, Robert) Highlight on page 259 | Location 4714-4714 2023-02-04 23:13:31
I always pay my debts, Elayne thought, watching them go. And I help my friends pay theirs.
<Crossroads of Twilight: Book Ten of 'The Wheel of Time'>(Jordan, Robert) Highlight on page 269 | Location 4921-4922 2023-02-04 23:13:58
Sisters used eyes-and-ears to watch the world, and rarely shared what they learned unless it was a threat to the Tower itself.
<Crossroads of Twilight: Book Ten of 'The Wheel of Time'>(Jordan, Robert) Highlight on page 275 | Location 5022-5022 2023-02-04 23:23:40
Always plan ahead, Lini used to say, but worry too hard over next year, and you can trip over tomorrow.
<Crossroads of Twilight: Book Ten of 'The Wheel of Time'>(Jordan, Robert) Highlight on page 302 | Location 5539-5540 2023-02-08 12:30:58
In her book, a man had to be mad in the first place, or he would never have chosen to become an Asha’man. Aviendha nodded. She disagreed with Dyelin almost as frequently as Birgitte did, but for the most part, the Asha’man were one thing they agreed on.
<Crossroads of Twilight: Book Ten of 'The Wheel of Time'>(Jordan, Robert) Highlight on page 310 | Location 5702-5704 2023-02-08 13:07:39
The simple fact was that Morgase Trakand’s final year had been marred by blunder after blunder, and few knew or believed that she had been a captive of one of the Forsaken during that time. Some Houses wanted anyone except another Trakand on the throne. Or thought they did.
<Crossroads of Twilight: Book Ten of 'The Wheel of Time'>(Jordan, Robert) Highlight on page 311 | Location 5736-5739 2023-02-08 13:33:49
“You have two. It is too early to say whether they are girls are boys, but they are healthy, and so are you.”
<Crossroads of Twilight: Book Ten of 'The Wheel of Time'>(Jordan, Robert) Highlight on page 316 | Location 5834-5835 2023-02-08 13:49:21
Two! Elayne shared a wide smile with Aviendha. She could almost feel her sister’s delight. She was going to have twins. Rand’s babies. A boy and a girl, she hoped, or two boys. Twin girls would present all manner of difficulties for the succession. No one ever gained the Rose Crown with everyone behind her.
<Crossroads of Twilight: Book Ten of 'The Wheel of Time'>(Jordan, Robert) Highlight on page 316 | Location 5835-5837 2023-02-08 13:49:34
Eagerly, Aviendha embraced the Source, but before she had begun to weave a thread, she let saidar go and turned her head to stare toward the dark-paneled wall. Toward the west. So did Elayne, and Monaelle, and Sumeko. The beacon that had been burning for so long had just vanished. One instant it had been there, that raging blaze of saidar, and then it was gone as if it had never existed.
<Crossroads of Twilight: Book Ten of 'The Wheel of Time'>(Jordan, Robert) Highlight on page 317 | Location 5853-5856 2023-02-08 13:50:23
She hoped Rand had done something wonderful today, but she could not waste time even thinking about that now. She had a throne to gain and angry Atha’an Miere to deal with, before they could vent their anger on her, it was to be hoped. In short, it was a day like every other since she returned to Caemlyn, and that meant her hands were quite full enough.
<Crossroads of Twilight: Book Ten of 'The Wheel of Time'>(Jordan, Robert) Highlight on page 319 | Location 5885-5888 2023-02-08 13:55:11
She already had her list of which High Seats would need to be replaced. No one who had opposed her was going to be allowed to cause her trouble later. A series of unfortunate accidents would see to that. A pity she could not choose their replacements, but accidents could happen with incredible frequency.
<Crossroads of Twilight: Book Ten of 'The Wheel of Time'>(Jordan, Robert) Highlight on page 328 | Location 6054-6056 2023-02-10 23:45:36
The only real concern she had was her own comfort and the income to ensure it, and the only reason she wanted the throne was that the royal coffers could provide greater comfort than the revenues of any High Seat.
<Crossroads of Twilight: Book Ten of 'The Wheel of Time'>(Jordan, Robert) Highlight on page 330 | Location 6088-6089 2023-02-10 23:48:11
a name was no more than a coat, and a man changed his coat whenever needed.
<Crossroads of Twilight: Book Ten of 'The Wheel of Time'>(Jordan, Robert) Highlight on page 334 | Location 6175-6175 2023-02-11 23:17:04
The lone man muffled head to ankles in a dark cloak, striding through the frozen slush left on the paving stones, answered to Daved Hanlon or Doilan Mellar with equal ease; a name was no more than a coat, and a man changed his coat whenever needed.
<Crossroads of Twilight: Book Ten of 'The Wheel of Time'>(Jordan, Robert) Highlight on page 334 | Location 6174-6175 2023-02-11 23:17:23
everyone knew that if three women who could channel and were not Aes Sedai sat down at the same table, Aes Sedai would appear before they could finish a pitcher of wine and tell them to move on and never speak to one another again.
<Crossroads of Twilight: Book Ten of 'The Wheel of Time'>(Jordan, Robert) Highlight on page 335 | Location 6196-6198 2023-02-11 23:20:03
When Aes Sedai behaved oddly, it was time for a man to look to the safety of his own skin.
<Crossroads of Twilight: Book Ten of 'The Wheel of Time'>(Jordan, Robert) Highlight on page 335 | Location 6200-6201 2023-02-11 23:20:15
Maybe, in spite of all the promises that he could romp a queen, he had been placed where he was so he could kill her at some selected moment, when her death would bring some specific result sought by Shiaine.
<Crossroads of Twilight: Book Ten of 'The Wheel of Time'>(Jordan, Robert) Highlight on page 341 | Location 6315-6317 2023-02-12 23:08:59
After all, a lone survivor was the only one who could tell the tale of what had happened.
<Crossroads of Twilight: Book Ten of 'The Wheel of Time'>(Jordan, Robert) Highlight on page 346 | Location 6420-6421 2023-02-12 23:16:08
Have the sisters put me and my men inside the walls now, and I can take Tar Valon. It won’t be clean. It never is. But I can take the city for you. And fewer will die than if you delay.”
<Crossroads of Twilight: Book Ten of 'The Wheel of Time'>(Jordan, Robert) Highlight on page 351 | Location 6500-6502 2023-02-13 23:24:31
You could forget who you were if you forgot where you came from, and sometimes the innkeeper’s daughter from Emond’s Field seemed a stranger to her.
<Crossroads of Twilight: Book Ten of 'The Wheel of Time'>(Jordan, Robert) Highlight on page 356 | Location 6600-6601 2023-02-14 23:24:50
Did Delana think she was a fool? Or perhaps the woman was trying to make her angry. Anger made for hasty decisions and rash words that sometimes were hard to take back.
<Crossroads of Twilight: Book Ten of 'The Wheel of Time'>(Jordan, Robert) Highlight on page 358 | Location 6637-6638 2023-02-14 23:28:13
“You will approach Varilin and the others Delana named, and arrange to approach the White Tower. These are the terms I will accept: Elaida is to resign and go into exile.”
<Crossroads of Twilight: Book Ten of 'The Wheel of Time'>(Jordan, Robert) Highlight on page 361 | Location 6715-6716 2023-02-14 23:34:34
Men never knew when to keep their mouths shut, though. Telling a man to be quiet only made him gossip all the harder, just to close friends he could trust, to be sure, as if they in turn would not tell everyone who would listen.
<Crossroads of Twilight: Book Ten of 'The Wheel of Time'>(Jordan, Robert) Highlight on page 363 | Location 6737-6738 2023-02-15 22:59:24
Truth almost always did come out in the end, but by the end, truth was often so wrapped around with rumors and speculation and absolute lies that most people never did believe it.
<Crossroads of Twilight: Book Ten of 'The Wheel of Time'>(Jordan, Robert) Highlight on page 363 | Location 6741-6743 2023-02-15 23:00:00
Siuan claimed that sometimes you could feel every woman who had ever worn the stole hanging from the ends of it, a constant reminder of responsibility and duty, and Egwene believed every word.
<Crossroads of Twilight: Book Ten of 'The Wheel of Time'>(Jordan, Robert) Highlight on page 376 | Location 6990-6991 2023-02-17 22:46:52
Siuan’s belief in her own abilities was sometimes greater than warranted.
<Crossroads of Twilight: Book Ten of 'The Wheel of Time'>(Jordan, Robert) Highlight on page 391 | Location 7282-7282 2023-02-18 23:20:56
When the fishmongers are all buying at the same price, you can bet they were all drinking at the same inn last night.”
<Crossroads of Twilight: Book Ten of 'The Wheel of Time'>(Jordan, Robert) Highlight on page 392 | Location 7293-7294 2023-02-18 23:21:55
The Amyrlin Seat really was a different woman from that innkeeper’s daughter.
<Crossroads of Twilight: Book Ten of 'The Wheel of Time'>(Jordan, Robert) Highlight on page 401 | Location 7477-7478 2023-02-19 23:30:44
Surprises in the Hall were seldom good. Surprises you learned about late were worse.
<Crossroads of Twilight: Book Ten of 'The Wheel of Time'>(Jordan, Robert) Highlight on page 402 | Location 7496-7496 2023-02-21 23:19:49
“It may have been a precise circle, originally, shaped like half of a ball, but the sides have collapsed in some places. The hole is approximately three miles across and perhaps a mile and a half deep.”
<Crossroads of Twilight: Book Ten of 'The Wheel of Time'>(Jordan, Robert) Highlight on page 413 | Location 7714-7715 2023-02-21 23:54:59
“We could not be entirely certain of the depth. The bottom is covered with water and ice. We believe it may become a lake, eventually. In any event, we were able to ascertain our exact location without too much difficulty, and we are prepared to say that the hole is located where the city called Shadar Logoth once stood.”
<Crossroads of Twilight: Book Ten of 'The Wheel of Time'>(Jordan, Robert) Highlight on page 413 | Location 7716-7718 2023-02-21 23:55:11
“A proposal has been laid before the Hall,” Egwene repeated into the silence. After that Power-magnified blare, her voice rang in her own ears. Perhaps it had been louder than she thought. That weave had never been intended for use inside walls, even patched canvas walls. “How speak you in support of an alliance with the Black Tower, Moria?”
<Crossroads of Twilight: Book Ten of 'The Wheel of Time'>(Jordan, Robert) Highlight on page 418 | Location 7822-7824 2023-02-22 00:03:46
“She makes me … uneasy, Mother,” she said finally. “There’s something just not right about that Halima. I feel it every time she’s around.
<Crossroads of Twilight: Book Ten of 'The Wheel of Time'>(Jordan, Robert) Highlight on page 427 | Location 7995-7996 2023-02-22 05:29:23
Life is a dream, and everyone wakes eventually.
<Crossroads of Twilight: Book Ten of 'The Wheel of Time'>(Jordan, Robert) Highlight on page 432 | Location 8093-8093 2023-02-22 05:35:56
Mazrim Taim is far from a fool, and I think he is a very dangerous man.”
<Crossroads of Twilight: Book Ten of 'The Wheel of Time'>(Jordan, Robert) Highlight on page 433 | Location 8110-8111 2023-02-22 05:37:31
Startled, Alviarin found herself with her begging hands stretched up toward a blue-eyed woman of flesh and blood, garbed in bronze-embroidered green. A tantalizingly familiar woman who looked just short of her middle years.
<Crossroads of Twilight: Book Ten of 'The Wheel of Time'>(Jordan, Robert) Highlight on page 455 | Location 8538-8540 2023-02-23 21:52:08
Why should she find any certainty about one of the two most important questions in the world when she could find none on so many simpler matters?
<Crossroads of Twilight: Book Ten of 'The Wheel of Time'>(Jordan, Robert) Highlight on page 472 | Location 8838-8839 2023-02-24 21:03:41
People never really changed, yet the world did, with disturbing regularity. You just had to live with it, or at least live through it. Now and then, with luck, you could affect the direction of the changes, but even if you stopped one, you only set another in motion.
<Crossroads of Twilight: Book Ten of 'The Wheel of Time'>(Jordan, Robert) Highlight on page 474 | Location 8888-8890 2023-02-24 21:08:06
“They call their army the Ever Victorious Army for a reason. It’s never lost a war. Battles, yes, but never a war. When they lose a battle, they sit down and work out what they did wrong, or what the enemy did right. Then they change what needs changing for them to win.”
<Crossroads of Twilight: Book Ten of 'The Wheel of Time'>(Jordan, Robert) Highlight on page 477 | Location 8951-8954 2023-03-01 23:16:58
Sometimes, the answers were thornier than the questions.
<Crossroads of Twilight: Book Ten of 'The Wheel of Time'>(Jordan, Robert) Highlight on page 479 | Location 8979-8979 2023-03-01 23:18:36
He no longer feared killing Min or Elayne or Aviendha any more than he feared going mad. Madder than he already was, at least, with a dead man in his head, and sometimes a foggy face he could almost recognize
<Crossroads of Twilight: Book Ten of 'The Wheel of Time'>(Jordan, Robert) Highlight on page 481 | Location 8996-8997 2023-03-04 23:03:59
Lightning seemed to suit Cadsuane. You could never tell where it would strike.
<Crossroads of Twilight: Book Ten of 'The Wheel of Time'>(Jordan, Robert) Highlight on page 482 | Location 9028-9028 2023-03-04 23:06:44
“If you’ve seen it, then it’s going to happen. I have to do what I can, Min, not worry over what I can’t.”
<Crossroads of Twilight: Book Ten of 'The Wheel of Time'>(Jordan, Robert) Highlight on page 483 | Location 9037-9038 2023-03-04 23:07:35
The foulness that had marked the male half of the Power since the Breaking was gone.
<Crossroads of Twilight: Book Ten of 'The Wheel of Time'>(Jordan, Robert) Highlight on page 484 | Location 9060-9061 2023-03-04 23:09:10
told you to kill them all when you had the chance, Lews Therin laughed. I told you.
<Crossroads of Twilight: Book Ten of 'The Wheel of Time'>(Jordan, Robert) Highlight on page 489 | Location 9161-9162 2023-03-10 23:02:49
Some said that turnabout was fair play, but she had never believed in fighting fair. Either you fought, or you did not, and it was never a game. Fairness was for people standing safely to one side, talking while others bled.
<Crossroads of Twilight: Book Ten of 'The Wheel of Time'>(Jordan, Robert) Highlight on page 489 | Location 9173-9174 2023-03-10 23:03:34
As it is, the only man who can channel that Elaida wants alive is me, and that only till the Last Battle is done.
<Crossroads of Twilight: Book Ten of 'The Wheel of Time'>(Jordan, Robert) Highlight on page 491 | Location 9208-9209 2023-03-10 23:06:40
The Creator had made the world and then left humankind to make of it what they would, a heaven or the Pit of Doom by their choosing. The Creator had made many worlds, watched each flower or die, and gone on to make endless worlds beyond. A gardener did not weep for each blossom that fell.
<Crossroads of Twilight: Book Ten of 'The Wheel of Time'>(Jordan, Robert) Highlight on page 492 | Location 9229-9231 2023-03-10 23:08:32
Dress poor when you want a small favor, and fine when you want a large one.
<Crossroads of Twilight: Book Ten of 'The Wheel of Time'>(Jordan, Robert) Highlight on page 501 | Location 9392-9393 2023-03-11 21:20:36
According to him, what your friends said and did could be as interesting as what your enemies planned, and that was when you were sure they were your friends.
<Crossroads of Twilight: Book Ten of 'The Wheel of Time'>(Jordan, Robert) Highlight on page 502 | Location 9424-9425 2023-03-11 21:22:08
Sometimes columns of Seanchan soldiers overtook them as they ambled along at a slow walk, ranks of men wearing helmets like huge insects’ heads, stepping out smartly, and columns of horsemen with their armor of overlapping plates painted in stripes.
<Crossroads of Twilight: Book Ten of 'The Wheel of Time'>(Jordan, Robert) Highlight on page 535 | Location 10035-10037 2023-03-13 23:02:49
Fortune rides like the sun on high with the fox that makes the ravens fly. Luck his soul, the lightning his eye, He snatches the moons from out of the sky.
<Crossroads of Twilight: Book Ten of 'The Wheel of Time'>(Jordan, Robert) Highlight on page 543 | Location 10210-10213 2023-03-13 23:15:50
His luck was especially good when the game was random.
<Crossroads of Twilight: Book Ten of 'The Wheel of Time'>(Jordan, Robert) Highlight on page 563 | Location 10578-10578 2023-03-16 22:39:15
“Renna was leashed, once. So were Bethamin and Seta. They can channel. Or maybe learn to; I don’t know. But the a’dam worked on those three. Maybe it works on any sul’dam.” Mat whistled through his teeth. Now, that would be a kick in the head for the Seanchan.
<Crossroads of Twilight: Book Ten of 'The Wheel of Time'>(Jordan, Robert) Highlight on page 568 | Location 10673-10675 2023-03-16 22:40:06
Mat felt something flicker and die inside him. He did not know what. Something. The dice rolled like thunder. “Shoot,” he said.
<Crossroads of Twilight: Book Ten of 'The Wheel of Time'>(Jordan, Robert) Highlight on page 571 | Location 10736-10737 2023-03-16 22:40:49
And that made three. It hardly seemed to matter that the dice had stopped. That made three. Never again, he thought as Renna floated out of sight around a bend. If I die for it, never again.
<Crossroads of Twilight: Book Ten of 'The Wheel of Time'>(Jordan, Robert) Highlight on page 571 | Location 10742-10743 2023-03-16 22:41:02
It minded her of the time spotted fever had struck Emond’s Field, and everyone walked around clutching brandy-soaked handkerchiefs to their noses—Doral Barran, the Wisdom then, had said that would help stave it off—clutching their handkerchiefs and watching one another to see who would be the next to break out in spots and fall over. Eleven people died before the fever ran its course, but it was a month after the last person fell sick before everyone was willing to put those handkerchiefs away. For a long time, she had associated the smell of brandy with fear.
<Crossroads of Twilight: Book Ten of 'The Wheel of Time'>(Jordan, Robert) Highlight on page 577 | Location 10840-10844 2023-03-16 22:45:02
“Siuan, I have no hope at all of uniting the Tower if Aes Sedai doubt me.”
<Crossroads of Twilight: Book Ten of 'The Wheel of Time'>(Jordan, Robert) Highlight on page 580 | Location 10899-10899 2023-03-18 23:21:25
Elaida won’t allow the Sitters speaking for her to budge an inch. She is dug into the Tower like a rat in a wall. The only way to flush her is to send ferrets in after her.”
<Crossroads of Twilight: Book Ten of 'The Wheel of Time'>(Jordan, Robert) Highlight on page 587 | Location 11048-11049 2023-03-19 23:13:24
“As it is, sisters retire to spend their last years in quiet, Romanda. Wouldn’t it be better if those were not their last years? If sisters retired into the Kin, they could tie the Kin to the Tower. There would be no need for a futile hunt, then.” She had gone this far; she might as well go the last step. “The Oath Rod can unbind as well as bind.”
<Crossroads of Twilight: Book Ten of 'The Wheel of Time'>(Jordan, Robert) Highlight on page 589 | Location 11082-11084 2023-03-19 23:16:02
Only then did Romanda speak, in a voice like stone. “When I was a little girl, I dreamed of becoming Aes Sedai. From the day I reached the White Tower, I tried to live as an Aes Sedai. I have lived as Aes Sedai, and I will die as Aes Sedai. This cannot be allowed!”
<Crossroads of Twilight: Book Ten of 'The Wheel of Time'>(Jordan, Robert) Highlight on page 589 | Location 11088-11090 2023-03-19 23:16:28
Siuan was one of the worst riders Egwene had ever seen.
<Crossroads of Twilight: Book Ten of 'The Wheel of Time'>(Jordan, Robert) Highlight on page 594 | Location 11191-11192 2023-03-21 22:56:23