A Crown of Swords by Robert Jordan

What could not be mended must be lived with,.... Loc 102181

Quick words make long troubles. Loc 104115

"Min, I'd say she is as pretty as you, but how can you compare two sunrises?" Loc 105795

Loc refer to the e-reader version of The Complete Wheel of Time

The Sparrow And His Four Children by Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm

Little birds have to encounter great dangers!

Lord of Chaos by Robert Jordan

There was a saying in the Borderlands: "Duty is heavier than a mountain, death lighter than a feather." Once you had that mountain firmly on your shoulders, there was no way to put it down. There was no one else to carry it anyway, and no use whining about it. Loc 82141

"Women do not become exhausted," Haman said, "they only exhaust others. that is a very old saying among us." [Ogier] Loc. 85480

   "When you wish for so long that you could hear something," he said slowly, "and then suddenly, with no warning, you do, it is like a lightening strike and rain on parched ground at the same time. You're stunned, but you cannot hear enough." Loc 86564

 Loc refer to the e-reader version of The Complete Wheel of Time

Wild by Cheryl Strayed

This book made a great book club read and it was a lot more thought provoking than I thought after immediately finishing it. The more I thought about it, the more layers I saw. It made for great discussion. But only a few quotes really stood out, which is not a bad thing. Sometimes it takes only one to make a book. Here are the standouts for me:

Fear, to a great extent, is born of a story we tell ourselves, and so I chose to tell myself a different story from the one women are told. I decided I was safe. I was strong. I was brave. Nothing could vanquish me. Insisting on this story was a form of mind control, but for the most part, it worked. p.51

Alone had always felt like an actual place to me, as if it weren't a state of being, but rather a room where I could retreat to be who I really was. p. 119

"I don't know what's right," I said, though I did. I knew exactly what I had to do. It was what I'd had to do so many times now: choose the best of two horrible things. page 160

I couldn't make them understand why I'd had to smash things up. But you seemed so happy was all they could say. And it was true: we had seemed that way. Just as I'd seemed to be doing okay after my mom died. Grief doesn't have a face. p.212

     There's no way to know what makes one thing happen and not another. What leads to what. What destroys what. What causes what to flourish or die or take a course.   ....He [stepfather] hadn't loved me well in the end, but he'd loved me well when it mattered. p.304