Robert Jordan: Trending quotes (page 8)

“To fight the raven you may make alliance with the serpent until the battle is done.”

“It’s too late to change your mind after you’ve jumped off the cliff.”

“Never gamble without knowing a back way out.”

“Weep for what is lost forever.”

“You always had to pay the butcher.”

“Ravens and crows. Rats. Mists and clouds. Insects and corruption. Strange events and odd occurences. The ordinary twisted and strange. Wonders. The dead are beginning to walk and some see them. Others do not, but more and more, we all fear the night. These have been our days. They rain upon us beneath a dead sky, crushing us with their fury, until as one, we beg, "Let it begin."”

“Trust is as slippery as a basket of eels sometimes.”

“I’m no lord. I’ve more respect for myself than that.”

“Nobody tells us how to be men. We just are.”

“Young men can be impetuous, young men can be rush, young men can be fools, but the Car'a'carn cannot let himself be a young man.”

“Tonight you will eat fish. Tomorrow, you may die.”

“We are going to tickle some Aes Sedai under the chin, rescue a mule, and put a snip-nosed girl on the Lion Throne. Oh, yes. That's Aviendha. Don't look at her crosswise, or she'll try to cut your throat and probably slit her own by mistake.”

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

“Anger narrowed the vision and made for foolish choices.”

“It is better to be the hammer than the nail.”

“Better ten days of love than years of regretting.”

“The weak must be bold cautiously.”

“Prophecy is most dangerous when you try to make it happen… The Pattern weaves itself around you, but when you try to weave it, even you cannot hold it.”

“Better to try understanding the sun than a woman.”