Robert Jordan: Trending quotes

“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.”

Source: A Memory of Light

“I will never shame you. I will hate the man you choose because he is not me, and love him if he makes you smile. No woman deserves the sure knowledge of widow's black as her brideprice, you least of all.”

Source: The Shadow Rising

“The lions sing and the hills take flight.
The moon by day, and the sun by night.
Blind woman, deaf man, jackdaw fool.
Let the Lord of Chaos rule.”

al'Lan Mandragoran to Nynaeve al'Meara
(15 January 1990)
Source: The Eye of the World

Robert Jordan Lord of Chaos

Chant from a children’s game heard in Great Arvalon, the Fourth Age
(15 October 1994)
Source: Lord of Chaos

“If you plan for the worst, all surprises are pleasant.”

“Storms rumble beyond the horizon, and the fires of heaven purge the earth. There is no salvation without destruction, no hope this side of death.”

Gaul
(15 September 1992)
Variant: Always plan for the worst, that way all your surprises will be pleasant ones.
Source: The Shadow Rising

Robert Jordan The Fires of Heaven

Source: The Fires of Heaven

“A wise ruler takes advice, but should never be seen to take it. Let them think you know more than you do. It will not harm them, and it will help you.”

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

Source: The Shadow Rising

“If the world is ending, a woman will want time to fix her hair. If the world's ending, a woman will take time to to tell a man something he's done wrong.”

Source: The Shadow Rising

“The rose petal floats on water. The kingfisher flashes above the pond. Life and beauty swirl in the midst of death.”

Matrim Cauthon
(15 October 1994)
Source: The Wheel of time series by Robert Jordan

“Most of those we call heroes only did what they had to do.”

al'Lan Mandragoran
(15 January 1990)
Source: The Eye of the World

Siuan Sanche
(15 October 1991)

“But it was an ending.”

“It is every man's right to choose when to Sheathe the Sword."
--- Ingtar Shinowa ---”

Source: A Memory of Light

Robert Jordan The Great Hunt

Source: The Great Hunt

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

“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 Golden Crane flies for Tarmon Gai'don!”

“I had long wondered," Lan said to Tam. "About the man who had given Rand that heron-marked blade. I wondered if he had truly earned it. Now I know." Lan raised his own sword in salute.”

Source: Knife of Dreams

“If you watch the wolf too hard, a mouse will bite you on the ankle”

Source: A Memory of Light

“If wishes were wings, pigs would fly.”

Source: The Eye of the World