Robert Jordan Quotes page 2

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

Source: Lord of Chaos

“You break your neck, and I’ll see it mended just so I can break it again.”

Source: Lord of Chaos

“I have never known anyone else," Egwene said to him, "who will work so hard to avoid hard work, Matrim Cauthon.”

Nynaeve al'Meara
(15 November 1990)

“the wolf may fight the bear but the rabbit always looses”

Source: A Memory of Light

“Loial, son of Arent, son of Halen, had secretly always wanted to be hasty.”

“Two days' hunger made a fine sauce for anything.”

Source: A Memory of Light

“Women do not become exhausted, they only exhaust others.”

Source: The Eye of the World

“Whether the bear beats the wolf or the wolf beats the bear, the rabbit always loses.”

Ogier saying
(15 October 1994)
Source: Lord of Chaos

“A beautiful battle is one you don't have to fight.”

Source: The Eye of the World

“You read too much and understand too little.”

Mat Cauthon
(11 October 2005)
Source: Knife of Dreams

“A woman’s eyes cut deeper than a knife.”

Moiraine Damodred
(15 September 1992)
Source: The Shadow Rising

“She’s not for you, nor you for her; at least, not in the way you both want.”

Two Rivers saying
(15 October 1994)

“I do not like odd things until I can understand them.”

Source: The Eye of the World

“My mother says men are different from us. She says we want to be in love, but only with the one we want; a man needs to be in love, but he will love the first woman to tie a string to his heart. - Egwene, speaking to Elayne”

Source: The Great Hunt

“The Empress will follow where you go," she said.
"So she will," Mat said. "As I'll follow where she goes, I suppose. I hope that doesn't lead us in too many circles.”

“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

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

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

“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

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

“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

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

Source: The Great Hunt

“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

“At my age, if I make it up, it’s still an old saying.”

Old saying in Randland
(15 October 1994)
Source: The Eye of the World

Robert Jordan The Fires of Heaven

Lini
(15 October 1993)
Source: The Fires of Heaven

“As the Wheel of Time turns, places wear many names. Men wear many names, many faces. Different faces, but always the same man. Yet no one knows the Great Pattern the Wheel weaves, or even the Pattern of an Age. We can only watch, and study, and hope.”

“All was shattered, and all but memory lost, and one memory above all others, of him who brought the Shadow and the Breaking of the World. And him they named Dragon.”

Source: The Eye of the World

“There was a wild light in his eyes. "Bring your lightnings, Aes Sedai. I will dance with them.”

“Hardness shatters; strength endures.”

Source: The Great Hunt

“A pig painted gold is still a pig.”

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

Matrim Cauthon
(15 November 1990)
Source: The Great Hunt

“A young wolfhound must meet his first wolf someday, but if the wolf sees him as a puppy, if he acts the puppy, the wolf will surely kill him. The wolfhound must be a wolfhound in the wolf's eyes even more than in his own, if he is to survive.”

“A secret spoken finds wings.”

Source: The Great Hunt

Robert Jordan The Path of Daggers

Source: The Path of Daggers

“It was easier to be brave when someone needed your protection.”

“On the heights, the paths are paved with daggers.”

Source: The Eye of the World

Robert Jordan The Path of Daggers

Seanchan saying
(15 September 1992)
Source: The Path of Daggers

“You're not asking me to guess the mind of Matrim Cauthon, are you?" Elayne asked. "I'm convinced that Mat only acts simple so that people will let him get away with more.”

“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.”

Source: A Memory of Light

“If you ask the lion to protect from from wolves, you have only chosen to end in one belly instead of another.”

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

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

Source: The Shadow Rising

“Does it make you brave to stick your hand in a bear's mouth? Would you do it again just because you didn't die?”

Source: New Spring

Robert Jordan The Dragon Reborn

Source: The Dragon Reborn

“She understood his eyes, colder than winter's heart. A man who knew he was dead and couldn't make himself care; you are spared that. Mashiara. His lost love.”