“You'll use it [Perrin's axe], boy, and as long as you hate using it, you would use it more wisely than most men would. Wait. If ever you don't hate it any longer, then will be the time to throw it as far as you can and run the other way.”

— Robert Jordan , book The Eye of the World

Elyas Machera
(15 January 1990)
Source: The Eye of the World

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