Blurbos Rating (3.7)
I thought the prologue might never end! A Crown of Swords started the slog for me, and even though it’s a fairly long read, I think I did the least amount of highlights throughout.
Ebou Dar and the Gholam were all pretty interesting, but they happen towards the end of the novel.
A lot of pretty decent character development, but if you’re looking for plot development, you might need to wait for the next one (or maybe the 11th, if the rumors are true).
Highlights
“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.”
<A Crown of Swords: Book Seven of 'The Wheel of Time'>(Jordan, Robert) Highlight on page 18 | Location 395-397 2022-06-13 23:38:36
There are neither beginnings nor endings to the turning of the Wheel of Time. But it was a beginning.
<A Crown of Swords: Book Seven of 'The Wheel of Time'>(Jordan, Robert) Highlight on page 57 | Location 984-986 2022-06-17 23:11:40
Life is a dream—that knows no shade.
Life is a dream—of pain and woe.
A dream from which—we pray to wake.
A dream from which—we wake and go.
Who would sleep—when the new dawn waits?
Who would sleep—when the sweet winds blow?
A dream must end—when the new day comes.
This dream from which—we wake and go.
<A Crown of Swords: Book Seven of 'The Wheel of Time'>(Jordan, Robert) Highlight on page 76 | Location 1256-1260 2022-06-18 23:07:50
“Young men and fools,” Nandera said suddenly to no one in particular, “sometimes bear pain they do not have to as a badge of their pride. And their foolishness.”
<A Crown of Swords: Book Seven of 'The Wheel of Time'>(Jordan, Robert) Highlight on page 92 | Location 1513-1515 2022-06-20 23:34:24
Secrets find crevices a flea could not slip through, and a secret known by so many has wings.”
<A Crown of Swords: Book Seven of 'The Wheel of Time'>(Jordan, Robert) Highlight on page 112 | Location 1819-1820 2022-06-22 22:44:26
The Ogier’s final attempt at heartening went further than Loial intended. “I am sure Faile can look after herself, Perrin. She is not like Erith. I can hardly wait for Erith to make me her husband so I can tend her; I think I’d die if she changed her mind.”
<A Crown of Swords: Book Seven of 'The Wheel of Time'>(Jordan, Robert) Highlight on page 124 | Location 2012-2014 2022-06-23 23:31:06
Rand understood women, Mat understood women, but Perrin knew he never would.
<A Crown of Swords: Book Seven of 'The Wheel of Time'>(Jordan, Robert) Highlight on page 161 | Location 2574-2575 2022-06-28 00:12:22
Why is it that as a man’s courage goes up, his sense goes down?”
<A Crown of Swords: Book Seven of 'The Wheel of Time'>(Jordan, Robert) Highlight on page 164 | Location 2622-2623 2022-06-28 00:15:25
“Wounds to the pride are remembered long after wounds to the flesh.”
<A Crown of Swords: Book Seven of 'The Wheel of Time'>(Jordan, Robert) Highlight on page 238 | Location 3742-3742 2022-06-30 23:10:58
you shame her?” Bair’s was just as enthusiastic. In a cruel land, you either learned to laugh at cruelty or spent your life weeping; in the Three-fold Land, the Aiel had learned to laugh long since.
<A Crown of Swords: Book Seven of 'The Wheel of Time'>(Jordan, Robert) Highlight on page 238 | Location 3743-3745 2022-06-30 23:10:46
“Without men, no woman would have gray hairs.”
<A Crown of Swords: Book Seven of 'The Wheel of Time'>(Jordan, Robert) Highlight on page 243 | Location 3826-3826 2022-06-30 23:16:37
no one can climb the same hill twice.
<A Crown of Swords: Book Seven of 'The Wheel of Time'>(Jordan, Robert) Highlight on page 248 | Location 3907-3907 2022-07-01 23:13:36
But weak sticks were better than none, when you were fending off a bear.
<A Crown of Swords: Book Seven of 'The Wheel of Time'>(Jordan, Robert) Highlight on page 260 | Location 4076-4077 2022-07-01 23:27:20
Any woman who thinks she has leashed Lan Mandragoran will find she has collared only air.
<A Crown of Swords: Book Seven of 'The Wheel of Time'>(Jordan, Robert) Highlight on page 297 | Location 4656-4658 2022-07-03 23:46:43
A woman would do a thing until you were sure she always would, then do something else just to fuddle you.
<A Crown of Swords: Book Seven of 'The Wheel of Time'>(Jordan, Robert) Highlight on page 343 | Location 5339-5340 2022-07-08 23:58:56
Rand usually knew how to deal with women, but he had jumped into a bear pit letting that pair come together.
<A Crown of Swords: Book Seven of 'The Wheel of Time'>(Jordan, Robert) Highlight on page 344 | Location 5363-5364 2022-07-09 00:01:08
Whichever dance you’re dancing at the moment is always the most fun.
<A Crown of Swords: Book Seven of 'The Wheel of Time'>(Jordan, Robert) Highlight on page 383 | Location 5934-5934 2022-07-11 23:39:13
“I’m not angry,” she laughed. She kicked her feet in delight, and pounded her fists on his chest, laughing, Saidar filled her, not just with life and joy, but this time, with awe. With feathery flows of Air, she stroked his cheeks. “I am not angry, Lan,” she whispered. “Your block is gone.” He grinned, sharing her delight, but the grin put no warmth into his eyes. I will take care of you, Lan Mandragoran, she promised silently. I will not let you die.
<A Crown of Swords: Book Seven of 'The Wheel of Time'>(Jordan, Robert) Highlight on page 634 | Location 9725-9729 2022-07-25 16:00:38
“I think I have just made a bargain with a ta’veren,” she said in that cool, deep voice. The woman could teach Aes Sedai how to pull themselves together quickly. “But one day, Master Cauthon, if it pleases the Light, I think you will walk a rope for me.”
<A Crown of Swords: Book Seven of 'The Wheel of Time'>(Jordan, Robert) Highlight on page 786 | Location 12049-12051 2022-07-29 21:38:49
“Wash the spears, while the sun climbs high.
Wash the spears, while the sun climbs high.
Wash the spears, while the sun falls low.
Wash the spears; who fears to die?
Wash the spears; no one I know!”
<A Crown of Swords: Book Seven of 'The Wheel of Time'>(Jordan, Robert) Highlight on page 818 | Location 12534-12536 2022-08-01 21:26:47
“It’s Cadsuane. She is going to teach you something, you and the Asha’man. All the Asha’man, I mean. It’s something you have to learn, but I don’t know what it is, except that none of you will like learning it from her. You aren’t going to like it at all.”
<A Crown of Swords: Book Seven of 'The Wheel of Time'>(Jordan, Robert) Highlight on page 826 | Location 12664-12667 2022-08-02 12:41:18