Youth
Perrin begins the series as a broad-shouldered, shaggy-haired apprentice to a blacksmith who is chased from Emond's Field with his friends, Rand al'Thor, Matrim Cauthon, and Egwene al'Vere. The group is led away from home by two outsiders, Moiraine Damodred Sedai and her Warder, al'Lan Mandragoran, and followed by their Wisdom, Nynaeve al'Meara.
Unbeknownst to anyone except Moiraine Sedai, the three boys are ta'veren, and under the Dark One's eye. Moiraine Sedai intended to bring them to the White Tower for safekeeping. Perrin, for his part, was hardly interested in adventure; a methodical, placid man of great strength and equal gentleness, he would have been happy living out his days in the Two Rivers as a blacksmith.
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Famous quotes containing the word youth:
“It is hard living down the tempers we are born with. We
all begin well, for in our youth there is nothing we
are more intolerant of than our own sins writ large in
others and we fight them fiercely in ourselves; but we
grow old and we see that these our sins are of all sins
the really harmless ones to own, nay that they give a
charm to any character, and so our struggle with them
dies away.”
—Gertrude Stein (1874–1946)
“Sprung from the West,
He drank the valorous youth of a new world.
The strength of virgin forests braced his mind,
The hush of spacious prairies stilled his soul.
His words were oaks in acorns; and his thoughts
Were roots that firmly gript the granite truth.”
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“From you have I been absent in the spring,
When proud pied April, dressed in all his trim,
Hath put a spirit of youth in every thing,
That heavy Saturn laughed and leaped with him.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)