There was a wild light in his eyes. "Bring your lightnings, Aes Sedai. I will dance with them.
Interpretation
This quote expresses a fearless attitude towards challenges and struggles.
In this quote by Robert Jordan, the character demonstrates an unyielding spirit and a willingness to confront danger head-on. The phrase 'Bring your lightnings' signifies a challenge to external forces, embracing them rather than shying away, illustrating a courageous heart that seeks to engage with life's trials directly and with enthusiasm.
In practice
During a motivational speech about facing fears and overcoming obstacles.
Fantasy is an area where it is possible to talk about right and wrong, good and evil, with a straight face. In mainstream fiction and even in a good deal of mystery, these things are presented as simply two sides of the same coin. Never really more than a matter of where you happen to be standing.
The Wheel of Time turns, and Ages come and pass, leaving memories that become legend. Legend fades to myth, and even myth is long forgotten when the Age that gave it birth comes again. In one Age, called the Third Age by some, an Age yet to come, an Age long past, a wind rose in the Mountains of Mist. The wind was not the beginning. There are neither beginnings nor endings to the turning of the Wheel of Time. But it was a beginning.
Til shade is gone, til water is gone Into the shadow with teeth bared Screaming defiance with the last breath To spit in Sightblinder’s eye on the Last Day.
He came like the wind, like the wind touched everything, and like the wind was gone. -from The Dragon Reborn. By Loial, son of Arent son of Halan, the Fourth Age.
The oak fought the wind and was broken, the willow bent when it must and survived.
Duty is heavier than a mountain, Dai Shan.' That time, Lan did flinch. How long had it been since someone had been able to do that to him with mere words? He remembered teaching that same concept to a youth out of the Two Rivers. A sheepherder, innocent of the world, fearful of the fate laid out before him by the Pattern.
I don't believe in killing whatever the reason!
Losing my father at a tender age was extremely important in being able to accept what happened to me later when I became a quadriplegic.
All right, Watson. Don’t look so scared,” he muttered in a very weak voice. “It’s not as bad as it seems.” “Thank God for that!” “I’m a bit of a single-stick expert, as you know. I took most of them on my guard. It was the second man that was too much for me.” “What can I do, Holmes? Of course, it was that damned fellow who set them on. I’ll go and thrash the hide off him if you give the word.” “Good old Watson!(...)
It's one thing to be groped and harassed by passers-by, but when the state gropes you, it gives a green light that you are fair game.
I think that little by little I'll be able to solve my problems and survive.
Coraline shivered. She preferred her other mother to have a location: if she were nowhere, then she could be anywhere. And, after all, it is always easier to be afraid of something you cannot see.
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