Robert Jordan Quotes
“You break your neck, and I’ll see it mended just so I can break it again.”
Nynaeve al'Meara
(15 November 1990)
“Loial, son of Arent, son of Halen, had secretly always wanted to be hasty.”
Source: A Memory of Light
“Two days' hunger made a fine sauce for anything.”
Source: The Eye of the World
“Women do not become exhausted, they only exhaust others.”
Ogier saying
(15 October 1994)
Source: Lord of Chaos
“Whether the bear beats the wolf or the wolf beats the bear, the rabbit always loses.”
Source: The Eye of the World
“A beautiful battle is one you don't have to fight.”
Mat Cauthon
(11 October 2005)
Source: Knife of Dreams
“You read too much and understand too little.”
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.”
Source: The Eye of the World
“I do not like odd things until I can understand them.”
Source: The Great Hunt
al'Lan Mandragoran to Nynaeve al'Meara
(15 January 1990)
Source: The Eye of the World
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.”
Gaul
(15 September 1992)
Variant: Always plan for the worst, that way all your surprises will be pleasant ones.
Source: The Shadow Rising
“Care for the living. I'll weep for the dead later. - Perrin Aybara”
Source: The Shadow Rising
Matrim Cauthon
(15 October 1994)
Source: The Wheel of time series by Robert Jordan
al'Lan Mandragoran
(15 January 1990)
Source: The Eye of the World
“If you watch the wolf too hard, a mouse will bite you on the ankle”
Source: The Eye of the World
“If wishes were wings, pigs would fly.”
Old saying in Randland
(15 October 1994)
Source: The Eye of the World
“At my age, if I make it up, it’s still an old saying.”
Lini
(15 October 1993)
Source: The Fires of Heaven
Source: The Eye of the World
“A pig painted gold is still a pig.”
Matrim Cauthon
(15 November 1990)
Source: The Great Hunt
Source: The Great Hunt
“On the heights, the paths are paved with daggers.”
Seanchan saying
(15 September 1992)
Source: The Path of Daggers
Elyas Machera
(15 January 1990)
Source: The Eye of the World
“The only way was forward, whatever lay at the end.”
Source: New Spring
“i can't understand her"
well son, you might as well try to understand the sun”
Source: The Fires of Heaven