# The Gathering Storm ## Metadata * Author: [Robert Jordan and Brandon Sanderson](https://www.amazon.comundefined) * ASIN: B003K15O3E * ISBN: 1841492329 * Reference: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B003K15O3E * [Kindle link](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B003K15O3E) ## Highlights You didn’t get mad at the weasel who was sneaking into your yard and eating your hens. You simply laid a trap and disposed of the animal. Anger was pointless. — location: [1424](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B003K15O3E&location=1424) ^ref-799 --- understand, Egwene thought. I didn’t realize what the Aiel did. I assumed that I just had to be harder, and that was what would teach me to laugh at pain. But it’s not hardness at all. It’s not strength that makes me laugh. It’s understanding. — location: [1481](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B003K15O3E&location=1481) ^ref-50879 --- Honor didn’t come from being punished, but accepting a punishment and bearing it restored honor. That was the soul of toh—the willing lowering of oneself in order to recover that which had been lost. It was strange to her that wetlanders couldn’t see this; indeed, it was strange that they didn’t follow ji’e’toh instinctively. What was life without honor? Amys, — location: [1682](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B003K15O3E&location=1682) ^ref-46932 --- Being in control wasn’t so much about the power you had, but the power you implied that you had. — location: [2204](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B003K15O3E&location=2204) ^ref-5018 --- People did not respond to anger. They did not respond to demands. Silence and questions, these were far more effective. — location: [8970](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B003K15O3E&location=8970) ^ref-8339 --- He didn’t seem blinded yet, so that had yet to happen. The Essanik Cycle said that he would stand on his own grave and weep. — location: [10927](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B003K15O3E&location=10927) ^ref-24288 --- “The choice isn’t always about what you do, son, but why you do — location: [14978](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B003K15O3E&location=14978) ^ref-4616 ---