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"Mandarb’s hooves beat a familiar rhythm on broken ground as Lan Mandragoran rode toward his death."

What a great opening sentence!

Even on a reread, knowing it’s coming.

“By the way, that dress you are wearing is green.”

On a reread and struck by what Sanderson writes about Jordan in the foreword: "Before his passing, he asked Harriet to find someone to complete the series for his fans. He loved you all very much and spent the very last weeks of his life dictating events for the final volume."

The man was long past needing the money, but he gave the last weeks of his life to us. It takes more than talent to make a great human being. Too bad certain other talented fantasy authors don't get it.

"Fireballs and lightning erupted among the riders following Guybon. The woman holding the rod raised her arm again. Even without using the looking glass, Birgitte was sure it was pointed straight at Guybon. He had to see it, but he never swerved a hair."

Has anyone ever created better, more memorable minor characters than Jordan? Even the last chapters of his last book are full of them, and our man Charlz gets one of the best.

I've been mildly annoyed by the misquoting of The Lion in Winter in "H. Con-172" since the first watch, but only now realized that Sorkin was plagiarizing himself again and getting it wrong both times. Jeremy (Josh Molina) delivers another failed attempt at quoting the same line in the last episode of season one of Sports Night (with the sorkinized title"What Kind of Day Has It Been?"). Jeremy's is even worse for saying "A writer once wrote."