The Fires of Heaven: Book Five of 'The Wheel of Time' by Robert Jordan

The Fires of Heaven: Book Five of ‘The Wheel of Time’ by Robert Jordan

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“A flapping tongue can put you in the net instead of the fish.”
<The Fires of Heaven: Book Five of 'The Wheel of Time'>(Jordan, Robert) Your Highlight on page 26 | Location 508-509  2021-11-20 22:48:09



If you must drown or ride a lionfish, you ride and hope for the best. That is all there is to it,
<The Fires of Heaven: Book Five of 'The Wheel of Time'>(Jordan, Robert) Your Highlight on page 40 | Location 761-761  2021-11-21 23:00:55



Only there was so much to learn, and it sometimes seemed a lifetime would be too short to learn it.
<The Fires of Heaven: Book Five of 'The Wheel of Time'>(Jordan, Robert) Your Highlight on page 113 | Location 2048-2048  2021-11-23 23:06:05



Not thinking about a thorn doesn’t make it hurt your foot less.
<The Fires of Heaven: Book Five of 'The Wheel of Time'>(Jordan, Robert) Your Highlight on page 201 | Location 3627-3627  2021-11-28 23:02:00



concern both touched her voice. If Birgitte was right, then somewhere in the world a boychild had been born, a mewling babe with no knowledge of who he was, yet destined for adventures that would make new legends. The Wheel wove the heroes into the Pattern as they were needed, to shape the Pattern, and when they died they returned here to wait again. That was what it meant to be bound to the Wheel.
<The Fires of Heaven: Book Five of 'The Wheel of Time'>(Jordan, Robert) Your Highlight on page 240 | Location 4293-4297  2021-11-29 23:25:41



That was another thing men did; made excuses to do exactly what they wanted.
<The Fires of Heaven: Book Five of 'The Wheel of Time'>(Jordan, Robert) Your Highlight on page 288 | Location 5153-5153  2021-12-02 23:39:51



How long now had he been doing what was necessary instead of what was right? In a fair world, they would be one and the same.
<The Fires of Heaven: Book Five of 'The Wheel of Time'>(Jordan, Robert) Your Highlight on page 335 | Location 5972-5972  2021-12-05 23:14:30



Elayne laughed aloud and gave her another hug. “Oh, Egwene, you will be Amyrlin Seat one day, when I am Queen of Andor.” “If there is a Tower then,” Egwene said soberly, and Elayne’s laughter faded.
<The Fires of Heaven: Book Five of 'The Wheel of Time'>(Jordan, Robert) Your Highlight on page 391 | Location 6930-6933  2021-12-10 23:02:39



The only problem was that Aes Sedai decided for themselves what they had to do, and usually what other people had to do as well.
<The Fires of Heaven: Book Five of 'The Wheel of Time'>(Jordan, Robert) Your Highlight on page 437 | Location 7737-7739  2021-12-13 23:01:19



“I always say, if you must mount the gallows, give a jest to the crowd, a coin to the hangman, and make the drop with a smile on your lips.”
<The Fires of Heaven: Book Five of 'The Wheel of Time'>(Jordan, Robert) Your Highlight on page 526 | Location 9273-9274  2021-12-21 23:35:16



“I’d forget saying goodbye to Egwene, were I you. I am no longer certain how much of what I tell her I might as well be telling Moiraine, or the Wise Ones, or both.” “I reached that conclusion a long time ago. She’s left Emond’s Field further behind than either of us. And regrets it less.”
<The Fires of Heaven: Book Five of 'The Wheel of Time'>(Jordan, Robert) Your Highlight on page 612 | Location 10772-10775  2022-01-01 01:07:38



Did he ever think of anyone now except as to how useful they were?
<The Fires of Heaven: Book Five of 'The Wheel of Time'>(Jordan, Robert) Your Highlight on page 642 | Location 11301-11302  2022-01-03 23:19:02



He wondered what they would say if they found out he was only a gambler following bits of memory from men dead a thousand years and more.
<The Fires of Heaven: Book Five of 'The Wheel of Time'>(Jordan, Robert) Your Highlight on page 649 | Location 11441-11442  2022-01-04 23:27:33



Only a battle lost is sadder than a battle won.
<The Fires of Heaven: Book Five of 'The Wheel of Time'>(Jordan, Robert) Your Highlight on page 655 | Location 11547-11547  2022-01-05 23:11:23



Almost dead yesterday, maybe dead tomorrow, but alive, gloriously alive, today.
<The Fires of Heaven: Book Five of 'The Wheel of Time'>(Jordan, Robert) Your Highlight on page 658 | Location 11587-11587  2022-01-05 23:15:06



He did not understand why those coming before him began to sweat and lick their lips as they knelt and stammered the words of fealty. But then, he could not see the cold light burning in his own eyes.
<The Fires of Heaven: Book Five of 'The Wheel of Time'>(Jordan, Robert) Your Highlight on page 693 | Location 12191-12193  2022-01-07 23:00:05



Thinking up reasons not to worry was easier than not worrying, though.
<The Fires of Heaven: Book Five of 'The Wheel of Time'>(Jordan, Robert) Your Highlight on page 695 | Location 12206-12207  2022-01-07 23:00:48



“An open sack hides nothing, and an open door hides little, but an open man is surely hiding something.”
<The Fires of Heaven: Book Five of 'The Wheel of Time'>(Jordan, Robert) Your Highlight on page 730 | Location 12840-12841  2022-01-10 22:45:23


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