Robert Jordan Quotes

I doubt you can understand the magnitude of the stupidity in your statement

You are as eloquent as ever, Mat," Egwene said dryly. "Do you still have your pet fox?" "I do," Mat said. "He's snuggled up nice and warm.

Juilin," she asked hesitantly, "what were you going to do with the salt and cooking oil? Not exactly," she added more quickly. "Just a general idea." He looked at her for a moment. "I do not know. But they did not, either. That is the trick of it; their minds made up worse then I ever could. I have seen a tough man break when I sent for a basket of figs and some mice.

Mat had tried to make her say she saw a hat floating around Mat's head. That would persuade Tuon to stop trying to get rid of his, would it not?

The Light willing, we will see one another again," Rand said. He held out his hand to Perrin. "Watch out for Mat. I'm honestly not sure what he's going to do, but I have a feeling it will be highly dangerous for all involved." "Not like us," Perrin said, clasping Rand's forearm. "You and I, we're much better at keeping to the safe paths.

Never think I have abandoned you. When the sun shines on you, it is my smile. When you hear the breeze stir through the apple blossoms, it is my whisper that I love you. My love is yours forever.

If any of these women had been here instead of Nynaeve, the world would have ended.

Kneel and swear to the Lord Dragon, or you will be knelt.

Care for the living. I'll weep for the dead later. - Perrin Aybara

When you saw me with a dagger in hand - as if to throw at you - you didn't call for your guards. You didn't fear I was here to kill you. You looked over your shoulder to see what I was aiming at. That's the most loving gesture I think a man could receive from a woman. Unless you'd like to sit on my knee for a while.

Tuon's eyes snapped open, and despite the dim light, she focused directly on Mat. She saw the knife in his hand, ready to throw. Then she looked over her shoulder.

As he did so, a wind rose up around him, around the man who had been called lord, Dragon Reborn, king, killer, lover and friend.

Think if you want to stay alive. Fear will kill you if you don't control it.

Death comes to us all; we can only choose how to face it when it comes.

In wars, boy, fools kill other fools for foolish causes

Kill a man who needs killing, and sometimes others pay for it. The question is, was it worth doing it anyway? There's always a balance, you know. Good and evil. Light and Shadow. We would not be human if there wasn't a balance.

May Your Swords Stay Sharp!" - Lan Pendragon

In a cruel land, you either learned to laugh at cruelty or spent your life weeping.

Women often seemed to leave things unsaid, and in his limited experience it was what they did not say that proved the most trouble.

Take what you can have. Rejoice in what you can save, and do not mourn your losses for too long.

He came like the wind, like the wind touched everything, and like the wind was gone. -from The Dragon Reborn. By Loial, son of Arent son of Halan, the Fourth Age.

Even fools say something worthwhile now and again. Even a blind pig finds an acorn sometimes.

When you wish for so long that you could hear something, and then suddenly, with no warning, you do, it is like a lightning strike and rain on parched ground at the same time. You're stunned, but you cannot hear enough.

There is one rule, above all others, for being a man. Whatever comes, face it on your feet.

Why didn't you guess this would happen?" Elayne demanded. He looked at her, expressionless. One side of his mouth twitched up, then he pulled his hat down, shading his eyepatch. "Light," Elayne said. "You knew. You spent this whole week planning with us, and you knew the entire time you'd throw it out with the dishwater.

On the heights, all paths are paved with daggers. -Old Seanchan saying

If you have a sword, and the Aielman has his bare hands, it is an even fight. If you're good.

But it was an ending.

Thus is our treaty written; thus is agreement made. Thought is the arrow of time; memory never fades. What was asked is given; the price is paid.

Any fool knows men and women think differently at times, but the biggest difference is this. Men forget, but never forgive; women forgive, but never forget.

The fact that the price must be paid is proof it is worth paying.

The only way was forward, whatever lay at the end.

Better to have one woman on your side than ten men.

The corpse's hand reached up and grabbed Shaisam by the throat. He gasped, thrashing, as the corpse opened its eye. "There's an odd thing about disease I once heard, Fain," Matrim Cauthon whispered. "Once you catch a disease and survive, you can't get it again.

Waiting turns men into bears in a barn, and women into cats in a sack.

Men," Thom murmured. "Men who shook the pillars of heaven and rocked the world on its foundations." He shook his head. "It doesn't matter. Forget about them. They are dust now.

Surprising what you can dig out of books if you read long enough, isn't it?

I've seen men die because they were sure that what should not happen,would not. -Robert Jordan(The eye of the world,Wheel of time)

The Amyrlin Seat has fallen," a nearby Aes Sedai cried amid the crystallized Sharans. "The Amyrlin Seat has fallen!

The arrogance of men never ceases to amaze me. You all think everything has to do with you, and every woman has to desire you.

We all make our limits, and we set them further out than we have any right.

No. Please do not name either child after me, Elayne. Let them live their own lives. My shadow will be long enough as it is.' -Rand

Always something new, always something I didn't expect, and sometimes it isn't horrible.

If you must mount the gallows, give a jest to the crowd, a coin the hangman, and make the drop with a smile on your lips.

If it's not forbidden, then it's allowed

Two hands. One to destroy, the other to save. Which had he lost?

He is born again! I feel him! The Dragon takes his first breath on the slope of Dragonmount! He is coming! He is coming! Light help us! Light help the world! He lies in the snow and cries like the thunder! He burns like the sun!

hope is like a piece of string when you’re drowning; it just isn’t enough to get you out by itself.