Blurbos Rating (5)
The Gathering Storm is a fast-paced and exciting read, with plenty of action, suspense, and intrigue. Sanderson does an excellent job of capturing Jordan’s style, and he brings new energy and momentum to the series. There were a few areas where I felt like I could tell I was reading a Sanderson book vs a Robert Jordan book, mostly in the dialogue, but it never brought me out of it. Overall, Sanderson did a masterful job here.
This book had some of my favorite scenes in the series, including a scene between Verin and Egwene, and the entire ending section at the White Tower. Amazing pacing, and I overall thoroughly enjoyed The Gathering Storm.
Highlights
Ravens and crows. Rats. Mists and clouds. Insects and corruption. Strange events and odd occurrences. The ordinary twisted and strange. Wonders!
<The Gathering Storm: Book Twelve of the Wheel of Time>(Jordan, Robert) Highlight on page 2 | Location 179-180 2023-06-23 13:17:12
The dead are beginning to walk, and some see them. Others do not, but more and more, we all fear the night.
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Lidrin had learned one of the bitter lessons of warfare: winning didn’t necessarily mean living. And following orders often didn’t mean either winning or living.
<The Gathering Storm: Book Twelve of the Wheel of Time>(Jordan, Robert) Highlight on page 31 | Location 739-741 2023-06-27 23:01:29
Aes Sedai were in control. Always. Even now, when they had suffered an indelible defeat: Egwene al’Vere, the rebel Amyrlin Seat, had been captured and imprisoned within the Tower.
<The Gathering Storm: Book Twelve of the Wheel of Time>(Jordan, Robert) Highlight on page 40 | Location 885-886 2023-06-27 23:11:05
Each of the four women would regret their decision to bond him.
<The Gathering Storm: Book Twelve of the Wheel of Time>(Jordan, Robert) Highlight on page 43 | Location 946-946 2023-06-28 23:02:54
There were streaks of white in Alivia’s hair, and she was just a bit taller than Nynaeve. That white in her hair was telling—any white or gray on a woman who wielded the One Power meant age. A great deal of it. Alivia claimed to be four centuries old.
<The Gathering Storm: Book Twelve of the Wheel of Time>(Jordan, Robert) Highlight on page 49 | Location 1063-1065 2023-06-28 23:10:48
Alivia would help Rand die, eventually. That had been one of Min’s viewings—and Min’s viewings were never wrong.
<The Gathering Storm: Book Twelve of the Wheel of Time>(Jordan, Robert) Highlight on page 49 | Location 1067-1068 2023-06-28 23:11:06
But time spent with her first-sister, Elayne Trakand, had taught her that not all wetlanders were soft and weak. Just most of them. There was ji in caring for those who could not care for themselves.
<The Gathering Storm: Book Twelve of the Wheel of Time>(Jordan, Robert) Highlight on page 74 | Location 1515-1517 2023-06-29 23:33:33
I once thought that there was only one way to be strong, but I have learned from my first-sister that I was wrong. Rand al’Thor . . . I do not think he has learned this yet. I worry that he mistakes hardness for strength.” Amys nodded again, as if in approval.
<The Gathering Storm: Book Twelve of the Wheel of Time>(Jordan, Robert) Highlight on page 81 | Location 1648-1650 2023-07-01 22:38:46
“I fear that he makes many of those burdens heavier than they need be. I once thought that there was only one way to be strong, but I have learned from my first-sister that I was wrong. Rand al’Thor . . . I do not think he has learned this yet. I worry that he mistakes hardness for strength.”
<The Gathering Storm: Book Twelve of the Wheel of Time>(Jordan, Robert) Highlight on page 81 | Location 1647-1650 2023-07-01 22:38:58
Honor didn’t come from being punished, but accepting a punishment and bearing it restored honor. That was the soul of toh—the willing lowering of oneself in order to recover that which had been lost.
<The Gathering Storm: Book Twelve of the Wheel of Time>(Jordan, Robert) Highlight on page 83 | Location 1683-1684 2023-07-01 22:41:10
Was this all he would leave to the world? A taint cleansed, yet men still killed or exiled for something they could not help?
<The Gathering Storm: Book Twelve of the Wheel of Time>(Jordan, Robert) Highlight on page 99 | Location 1972-1972 2023-07-02 23:02:39
Battle was always a mess. The only neat battles were the ones in stories or history books.
<The Gathering Storm: Book Twelve of the Wheel of Time>(Jordan, Robert) Highlight on page 107 | Location 2126-2127 2023-07-02 23:16:35
All these others in camp might bow and scrape and dote on him, but Nynaeve knew that he was really just a sheepherder from Emond’s Field.
<The Gathering Storm: Book Twelve of the Wheel of Time>(Jordan, Robert) Highlight on page 123 | Location 2416-2417 2023-07-05 22:57:48
Men! They were all the same. Offer them a challenge, and they’d be curious, no matter that the challenge would likely end with them spitted on a lance.
<The Gathering Storm: Book Twelve of the Wheel of Time>(Jordan, Robert) Highlight on page 130 | Location 2559-2561 2023-07-05 23:07:21
If there was one thing Aes Sedai were good at, it was creating order.
<The Gathering Storm: Book Twelve of the Wheel of Time>(Jordan, Robert) Highlight on page 134 | Location 2616-2616 2023-07-05 23:10:36
She and Moiraine had fought so hard to save this world, but they had left themselves without anything to enjoy in it.
<The Gathering Storm: Book Twelve of the Wheel of Time>(Jordan, Robert) Highlight on page 140 | Location 2734-2736 2023-07-05 23:17:54
“When I was still an Accepted in the White Tower,” Siuan said softly, “I was one of four people present when a Foretelling announced the imminent birth of the Dragon Reborn on the slopes of Dragonmount.”
<The Gathering Storm: Book Twelve of the Wheel of Time>(Jordan, Robert) Highlight on page 144 | Location 2804-2806 2023-07-05 23:22:05
Faile had shown him that he didn’t need to be good with people, or even with women, as long as he could make one person understand him. He didn’t have to be good at talking to anyone else as long as he could talk to her.
<The Gathering Storm: Book Twelve of the Wheel of Time>(Jordan, Robert) Highlight on page 162 | Location 3141-3143 2023-07-07 23:09:24
Ituralde considered, though he knew already what his answer would be. That gateway could spirit his men away from this death trap. With Aiel on his side—with the Dragon Reborn as an ally—he really did have a chance of keeping Arad Doman secure. An honorable death was a good thing. But the ability to keep on fighting with honor . . . that was a prize far more precious.
<The Gathering Storm: Book Twelve of the Wheel of Time>(Jordan, Robert) Highlight on page 180 | Location 3492-3495 2023-07-07 23:27:55
As admirable as I find your work to discover the Black Ajah, I am far more encouraged by your willingness to work together to do it. In the current Tower, cooperation between the Ajahs is rare. I challenge you to take that as your main goal, bringing unity to the White Tower.
<The Gathering Storm: Book Twelve of the Wheel of Time>(Jordan, Robert) Highlight on page 216 | Location 4129-4131 2023-07-09 23:16:15
Aes Sedai. Sensible men stayed away from them when possible, and obeyed them with alacrity when staying away was impossible.
<The Gathering Storm: Book Twelve of the Wheel of Time>(Jordan, Robert) Highlight on page 228 | Location 4359-4360 2023-07-10 23:25:24
Sometimes, Aviendha, we are so concerned with the things we have done that we do not stop to consider the things we have not.”
<The Gathering Storm: Book Twelve of the Wheel of Time>(Jordan, Robert) Highlight on page 255 | Location 4842-4843 2023-07-11 22:49:22
People were much more complex than a set of rules or numbers.
<The Gathering Storm: Book Twelve of the Wheel of Time>(Jordan, Robert) Highlight on page 262 | Location 4970-4971 2023-07-11 22:57:08
The Last Battle was approaching, the Dragon Reborn ran free, and the Amyrlin Seat was on her hands and knees cleaning fireplaces!
<The Gathering Storm: Book Twelve of the Wheel of Time>(Jordan, Robert) Highlight on page 271 | Location 5152-5153 2023-07-11 23:08:36
“Each day is a battle,” Egwene said. “Each day I refuse to bend means something. Even if Elaida and her Reds are the only ones who know it, that’s something. A small something, but more than I could do from the outside. Come. I’ve still got two hours of work left.”
<The Gathering Storm: Book Twelve of the Wheel of Time>(Jordan, Robert) Highlight on page 274 | Location 5208-5211 2023-07-11 23:11:50
“I wish I weren’t needed here, Elaida,” Egwene said softly. “I wish that the Tower had a grand Amyrlin in you. I wish I could step down and accept your rule. I wish you deserved it. I would willingly accept execution, if it would mean leaving a competent Amyrlin. The White Tower is more important than I am. Can you say the same?”
<The Gathering Storm: Book Twelve of the Wheel of Time>(Jordan, Robert) Highlight on page 285 | Location 5418-5421 2023-07-11 23:24:50
Step by step he was becoming a man with insides like stone, unmoving and unable to adapt. A statue with no feelings could not face the Dark One.
<The Gathering Storm: Book Twelve of the Wheel of Time>(Jordan, Robert) Highlight on page 287 | Location 5460-5461 2023-07-12 23:16:59
One did not enter the presence of such a creature—one of the most evil beings ever to live—and not feel at least a measure of awe.
<The Gathering Storm: Book Twelve of the Wheel of Time>(Jordan, Robert) Highlight on page 289 | Location 5485-5487 2023-07-12 23:18:41
Chaos. The entire world was chaos.
<The Gathering Storm: Book Twelve of the Wheel of Time>(Jordan, Robert) Highlight on page 307 | Location 5795-5796 2023-07-13 23:26:42
Just because one was poor was not a reason—or an excuse—to live without law.
<The Gathering Storm: Book Twelve of the Wheel of Time>(Jordan, Robert) Highlight on page 307 | Location 5801-5802 2023-07-13 23:27:23
But within this void he had no emotion. None at all. They could not break or bend him. It was done.
<The Gathering Storm: Book Twelve of the Wheel of Time>(Jordan, Robert) Highlight on page 376 | Location 7100-7102 2023-07-17 23:09:48
“Cadsuane,” he said softly, “do you believe that I could kill you? Right here, right now, without using a sword or the Power? Do you believe that if I simply willed it, the Pattern would bend around me and stop your heart? By . . . coincidence?”
<The Gathering Storm: Book Twelve of the Wheel of Time>(Jordan, Robert) Highlight on page 381 | Location 7190-7192 2023-07-17 23:16:57
“So just leave,” Mat said. “Leave this bloody place and go somewhere else!” “We’ve tried,” the mayor said. “We always wake up back here, no matter how far we go. Some have tried ending their lives. We buried the bodies. They woke up the next morning in their beds.”
<The Gathering Storm: Book Twelve of the Wheel of Time>(Jordan, Robert) Highlight on page 465 | Location 8792-8795 2023-07-21 09:52:22
“Nothing, lad,” the gleeman said. “It’s just . . . well, it’s a sad tale. Something’s wrong in the world. There’s a snag in the Pattern here. The town unravels at night, and then the world tries to reset it each morning to make things right again.”
<The Gathering Storm: Book Twelve of the Wheel of Time>(Jordan, Robert) Highlight on page 467 | Location 8837-8839 2023-07-21 09:54:40
The list always began with Moiraine. That name hurt the most of all, for he could have saved her. He should have. He hated himself for allowing her to sacrifice herself for him.
<The Gathering Storm: Book Twelve of the Wheel of Time>(Jordan, Robert) Highlight on page 470 | Location 8869-8871 2023-07-21 10:52:48
People did not respond to anger. They did not respond to demands. Silence and questions, these were far more effective. Indeed, Merise—a fully trained Aes Sedai—wilted before that stare.
<The Gathering Storm: Book Twelve of the Wheel of Time>(Jordan, Robert) Highlight on page 476 | Location 8971-8973 2023-07-21 11:00:02
Respond to demands with silence, respond to challenges with questions.
<The Gathering Storm: Book Twelve of the Wheel of Time>(Jordan, Robert) Highlight on page 476 | Location 8979-8980 2023-07-21 11:25:59
Give a man one cow, and he’d care for it with concern, using its milk to feed his family. Give a man ten cows, and he was likely to think himself rich—then let all ten starve for lack of attention.
<The Gathering Storm: Book Twelve of the Wheel of Time>(Jordan, Robert) Highlight on page 498 | Location 9377-9378 2023-07-24 18:32:36
That was one of the blessings and the curses of being a wilder; she could do things by instinct that other Aes Sedai struggled to learn. However, it was difficult for Nynaeve to unlearn some of the bad habits she’d learned.
<The Gathering Storm: Book Twelve of the Wheel of Time>(Jordan, Robert) Highlight on page 528 | Location 9930-9932 2023-08-02 19:42:24
There was one person who had managed to work with Rand while at the same time teaching and training him. It hadn’t been Cadsuane, nor had it been any of the Aes Sedai who tried to capture him, trick him or bully him. It had been Moiraine.
<The Gathering Storm: Book Twelve of the Wheel of Time>(Jordan, Robert) Highlight on page 529 | Location 9956-9959 2023-08-02 19:48:55
The Oath Rod was only a formality; Two Rivers folk needed no ter’angreal to make them honest.
<The Gathering Storm: Book Twelve of the Wheel of Time>(Jordan, Robert) Highlight on page 533 | Location 10028-10028 2023-08-02 19:55:34
Rand glanced at Nynaeve, and she could almost feel him connecting the comments to figure out what she had been doing. “You Aes Sedai,” he finally said, “share much with rats, I have come to realize. You are always in places where you are not wanted.”
<The Gathering Storm: Book Twelve of the Wheel of Time>(Jordan, Robert) Highlight on page 548 | Location 10313-10315 2023-08-03 11:51:06
There was a reason the Creator allowed them to forget their past lives. No man should have to remember the failures of Lews Therin Telamon.
<The Gathering Storm: Book Twelve of the Wheel of Time>(Jordan, Robert) Highlight on page 551 | Location 10369-10370 2023-08-03 12:06:02
Do not complain of the heat when someone offers you the sun in the palm of her hands.”
<The Gathering Storm: Book Twelve of the Wheel of Time>(Jordan, Robert) Highlight on page 566 | Location 10635-10636 2023-08-04 20:25:11
“Every metal store,” Mat said flatly. “Yes.” “In four of the world’s largest cities.” “Yes.” “And you ‘suppose’ that would be sufficient.” “I believe that is what I said, Matrim Cauthon.”
<The Gathering Storm: Book Twelve of the Wheel of Time>(Jordan, Robert) Highlight on page 567 | Location 10655-10659 2023-08-04 20:26:28
At Falme, the shepherd boy had burned, his ashes scattered and blown away by those ocean winds. From those ashes, the Dragon Reborn had risen.
<The Gathering Storm: Book Twelve of the Wheel of Time>(Jordan, Robert) Highlight on page 574 | Location 10787-10788 2023-08-04 20:32:41
The Dragon Reborn was a bonfire inexplicably lit inside a house. You could not prevent it from damaging the room. You just hoped to save the building.
<The Gathering Storm: Book Twelve of the Wheel of Time>(Jordan, Robert) Highlight on page 580 | Location 10900-10902 2023-08-05 20:29:32
“I ask myself the same question, Master Cauthon,” Verin said, smiling, her aging Warder
<The Gathering Storm: Book Twelve of the Wheel of Time>(Jordan, Robert) Highlight on page 588 | Location 11059-11060 2023-08-07 20:43:51
“But you can’t hide your light in his shadow, Matrim Cauthon. Not in the presence of any but the blind, at least. In any other time, you’d undoubtedly be the most powerfully ta’veren individual alive. Probably the most powerful to have lived in centuries.”
<The Gathering Storm: Book Twelve of the Wheel of Time>(Jordan, Robert) Highlight on page 589 | Location 11077-11079 2023-08-07 20:50:55
She folded up the picture of him, then took a small leather-bound satchel from her pocket. She opened it, sliding the picture inside, and as she did, he noticed that she had a small stack of folded, sealed pieces of paper inside just like the one he was holding. What was the purpose of those?
<The Gathering Storm: Book Twelve of the Wheel of Time>(Jordan, Robert) Highlight on page 597 | Location 11235-11237 2023-08-08 20:57:58
“I’ve done it before,” he whispered. “I once said that I didn’t kill women, but it was a lie. I murdered a woman long before I faced Semirhage. Her name was Liah. I killed her in Shadar Logoth. I struck her down, and I called it mercy.”
<The Gathering Storm: Book Twelve of the Wheel of Time>(Jordan, Robert) Highlight on page 614 | Location 11553-11555 2023-08-09 19:54:52
“Forgive me,” he said, but it didn’t seem directed at Min, “for calling this mercy as well.”
<The Gathering Storm: Book Twelve of the Wheel of Time>(Jordan, Robert) Highlight on page 614 | Location 11556-11557 2023-08-09 19:55:02
Had he really done what she thought he had? Had he burned away an entire fortress with balefire?
<The Gathering Storm: Book Twelve of the Wheel of Time>(Jordan, Robert) Highlight on page 615 | Location 11576-11577 2023-08-09 19:57:04
Well, three Aes Sedai could hardly gather without two of them making an alliance.
<The Gathering Storm: Book Twelve of the Wheel of Time>(Jordan, Robert) Highlight on page 630 | Location 11860-11860 2023-08-10 23:32:29
She could escape if she wished, but she remained. By remaining she undermined Elaida. By remaining she proved that some would not bow and quietly accept the fall of the White Tower. This imprisonment meant something.
<The Gathering Storm: Book Twelve of the Wheel of Time>(Jordan, Robert) Highlight on page 633 | Location 11927-11928 2023-08-10 23:36:18
“I don’t trust you,” Egwene found herself blurting. “I don’t think I ever have.” “Very wise,” Verin said, sipping her tea. It was not a scent Egwene recognized. “I am, after all, of the Black Ajah.”
<The Gathering Storm: Book Twelve of the Wheel of Time>(Jordan, Robert) Highlight on page 641 | Location 12072-12075 2023-08-10 23:43:40
‘I swear not to betray the Great Lord, to keep my secrets until the hour of my death.’ That was what I promised. Do you see?” Egwene looked down at the steaming cup in Verin’s hands. “Poison?”
<The Gathering Storm: Book Twelve of the Wheel of Time>(Jordan, Robert) Highlight on page 645 | Location 12141-12143 2023-08-12 00:14:56
Please see that they know, although the word Black may brand my name forever, my soul is Brown. Tell them. . . .”
<The Gathering Storm: Book Twelve of the Wheel of Time>(Jordan, Robert) Highlight on page 648 | Location 12214-12215 2023-08-12 00:19:34
It wasn’t Tarmon Gai’don, but it was nearly as bad. The Seanchan had finally attacked the White Tower, just as Egwene had Dreamed.
<The Gathering Storm: Book Twelve of the Wheel of Time>(Jordan, Robert) Highlight on page 662 | Location 12472-12474 2023-08-13 22:56:16
“She doesn’t want help,” Bryne said sternly. “We need to make certain our own force is safe. The Amyrlin is confident that she can care for herself.” “I thought I could care for myself too,” Siuan said. “And look where it got me.”
<The Gathering Storm: Book Twelve of the Wheel of Time>(Jordan, Robert) Highlight on page 666 | Location 12530-12532 2023-08-13 22:58:28
Let the sul’dam try and shield her while she was wielding one of the most powerful sa’angreal that the Aes Sedai possessed. The White Tower would not fall while she was Amyrlin! Not without a fight to rival the Last Battle itself.
<The Gathering Storm: Book Twelve of the Wheel of Time>(Jordan, Robert) Highlight on page 671 | Location 12635-12637 2023-08-13 23:04:01
woman in white stood atop the rubble a short distance away, a massive halo of power surrounding her, her arm outstretched toward the fleeing soldiers, her eyes intense. The woman stood like vengeance itself, the power of saidar like a storm around her. The very air seemed alight, and her brown hair blew from the wind of the open gap in the wall beside them. Egwene al’Vere.
<The Gathering Storm: Book Twelve of the Wheel of Time>(Jordan, Robert) Highlight on page 677 | Location 12761-12764 2023-08-13 23:09:58
Her anger was not out of control. It was cold and distilled.
<The Gathering Storm: Book Twelve of the Wheel of Time>(Jordan, Robert) Highlight on page 688 | Location 12978-12978 2023-08-13 23:21:44
Would the Ogier be willing to return and rebuild this magnificent structure? Would it ever be the same again, or had a seemingly eternal monument fallen this evening? Was he proud or grieved to have witnessed it?
<The Gathering Storm: Book Twelve of the Wheel of Time>(Jordan, Robert) Highlight on page 695 | Location 13105-13107 2023-08-13 23:28:16
“Now, now,” the voice said, patient, like a woman speaking to a very young child. “You must learn. Your name is Suffa. And Suffa will be a good damane. Yes she will. A very, very good damane.” Elaida screamed again, and this time, she didn’t stop when the pain came. She just kept screaming out into the uncaring night.
<The Gathering Storm: Book Twelve of the Wheel of Time>(Jordan, Robert) Highlight on page 701 | Location 13230-13233 2023-08-13 23:34:42
Life was a tempest, whether you were a milkmaid or a queen. The queens were simply better at projecting control in the middle of that storm.
<The Gathering Storm: Book Twelve of the Wheel of Time>(Jordan, Robert) Highlight on page 715 | Location 13472-13473 2023-08-15 23:24:50
She had to be as logical as a White, as thoughtful as a Brown, as passionate as a Blue, as decisive as a Green, as merciful as a Yellow, as diplomatic as a Gray. And yes, as vengeful as a Red, when necessary.
<The Gathering Storm: Book Twelve of the Wheel of Time>(Jordan, Robert) Highlight on page 715 | Location 13476-13478 2023-08-15 23:25:12
The other Aes Sedai spoke of being in control of their emotions, but obviously they didn’t have to deal with Rand al’Thor. Nynaeve could be calm too, if she weren’t expected to manage the most bullheaded fool of a man who had ever put on a pair of boots.
<The Gathering Storm: Book Twelve of the Wheel of Time>(Jordan, Robert) Highlight on page 740 | Location 13964-13966 2023-08-15 23:51:00
“I bear it already, Saerin.” Egwene’s reply was almost a whisper. “Elaida cast it aside when she tried to slice it and divide it as she wished. I took it up and have carried it since. I would bear it to my death. And will.” Saerin nodded. “I think that might be why you deserve it,” she said.
<The Gathering Storm: Book Twelve of the Wheel of Time>(Jordan, Robert) Highlight on page 774 | Location 14599-14602 2023-08-16 22:55:00
“You are raised to the Amyrlin Seat!” she declared, the voices of the other Sitters joining in, “In the glory of the Light, that the White Tower may endure forever. Egwene al’Vere, the Watcher of the Seals, the Flame of Tar Valon, the Amyrlin Seat!”
<The Gathering Storm: Book Twelve of the Wheel of Time>(Jordan, Robert) Highlight on page 774 | Location 14606-14608 2023-08-16 22:55:17
Rand felt the same way. He had the form of a human. Indeed, he had the mannerisms and history of one. But he was a thing that no human—not even he himself—could understand. A figure of legend, a creation of the One Power, as unnatural as a ter’angreal or a fragment of cuendillar.
<The Gathering Storm: Book Twelve of the Wheel of Time>(Jordan, Robert) Highlight on page 783 | Location 14763-14765 2023-08-16 23:04:40
Two hands. One to destroy, the other to save. Which had he lost?
<The Gathering Storm: Book Twelve of the Wheel of Time>(Jordan, Robert) Highlight on page 784 | Location 14770-14771 2023-08-16 23:05:09
“The darkness won’t matter; I shall create light enough.” He fingered the access key, feeling a thrill and a horror at the same time. He had driven the Seanchan back into the ocean once. He would do so again. Alone.
<The Gathering Storm: Book Twelve of the Wheel of Time>(Jordan, Robert) Highlight on page 789 | Location 14867-14869 2023-08-16 23:10:56
“The choice isn’t always about what you do, son, but why you do it. When I was a soldier, there were some men who fought simply for the money. There were others who fought for loyalty—loyalty to their comrades, or to the crown, or to whatever. The soldier who dies for money and the soldier who dies for loyalty are both dead, but there’s a difference between them. One death meant something. The other didn’t.
<The Gathering Storm: Book Twelve of the Wheel of Time>(Jordan, Robert) Highlight on page 794 | Location 14980-14983 2023-08-16 23:16:28
What am I DOING? Rand thought again. No more than I’ve done before, Lews Therin whispered.
<The Gathering Storm: Book Twelve of the Wheel of Time>(Jordan, Robert) Highlight on page 796 | Location 15027-15029 2023-08-16 23:19:16
He shall hold a blade of light in his hands, and the three shall be one. The commentators felt it was too vague compared with other passages, like Rand taking the Stone or Rand’s blood being spilled on the rocks of Shayol Ghul.
<The Gathering Storm: Book Twelve of the Wheel of Time>(Jordan, Robert) Highlight on page 799 | Location 15048-15051 2023-08-16 23:20:06
They would not know Rand until he destroyed them. It will be a mercy, Lews Therin whispered. Death is always a mercy. The madman didn’t sound as crazy as he once had. In fact, his voice had started to sound an awful lot like Rand’s own voice.
<The Gathering Storm: Book Twelve of the Wheel of Time>(Jordan, Robert) Highlight on page 809 | Location 15245-15247 2023-08-16 23:30:15
“And what if I don’t want the Pattern to continue?” he bellowed. He stepped forward, right to the edge of the rock, clutching the access key to his chest. “We live the same lives!” he yelled at them. “Over and over and over. We make the same mistakes. Kingdoms do the same stupid things. Rulers fail their people time and time again. Men continue to hurt and hate and die and kill!”
<The Gathering Storm: Book Twelve of the Wheel of Time>(Jordan, Robert) Highlight on page 815 | Location 15329-15333 2023-08-16 23:35:44
Why? Rand thought with wonder. Because each time we live, we get to love again.
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He knew—somehow—that he would never again hear Lews Therin’s voice in his head. For they were not two men, and never had been.
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I will find you, Alviarin, Egwene thought, tapping the sheet with her finger. I will find you all. You were a rot within the Tower itself. The worst kind of rot. I will not let you spread it.
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