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I have reached chapter 51 "Revelations in Tanchico"...

I struggle with this book... Some of me is still captivated by it, but I often wonder about its meaningfulness in the world we live in...

“A Wise One must be in control of her emotions, not they in control of her.”

Is this the way to go?

Being purely driven by one’s emotions seems wrong, but trying to control what one feels seems equally wrong…

I think emotions should be a guide not a commandment...

"A wise one should be guided by her emotions, not slave to them..." could this be a better a better maxim of wisdom?

“Of course. She had not been to Rhuidean; apparently the prohibition against speaking of what happened in Rhuidean with anyone who had not been there applied even between husband and wife.”

“There was still time to tell Aram to put the sword back, to go ask Ila’s pardon. Time to tell him . . . what? That maybe next time he would not be there to watch his loved ones die? That maybe he could just come back to find their graves?”

“He had not really thought since that night, only drifted as events took him, reacting to what presented itself.”

“It was a thought shiveringly close to treason, but it would not go away.”

“He was not mad yet—he did not think he was—but many would think so before he was done.”

"What did he have to do to drive her away? More than he could bring himself to, if he had not managed it already."

"A city without choras would seem bleak as wilderness."

"She clained one of the Forsaken was only partly trapped, or maybe not at all; Ishmael still touched the world, she said. She had to be as mad as the remaining male Aes Sedai."