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Robert Jordan Quotes
“Courage to strengthen, fire to blind, music to daze, iron to bind.”
Snakes and Foxes Game
(15 September 1992)
“Once you decide to gut a fish, there’s no use waiting till it rots.”
Siuan Sanche
(15 October 1991)
“A flapping tongue has killed more men than sudden storms ever did.”
Siuan Sanche
(15 October 1991)
“An arrow may not be a shocklance, yet it can still kill you.”
Sammael to Graendal
(15 October 1994)
“Jump in a hole without looking, and there’ll be a snake in it every time.”
Hurin
(15 November 1990)
“Not thinking about a thorn doesn’t make it hurt your foot less.”
Lini
(15 October 1993)
“Even a queen stubs her toe, but a wise woman watches the path.”
Lini
(15 October 1993)
“I expect a civil word for a civil word!”
Matrim Cauthon to Berelain
(15 September 1992)
How can anything pass at all if he is kept in chains?
Egwene al'Vere, addressing Elaida do Avriny a'Roihan, Amyrlin Seat of the White Tower
The Gathering Storm (27 October 2009)
“A man’s word must be as good as an oath sworn beneath the Light or it was no good at all.”
Source: (January 2004), Chapter 1: The Hook. p. 6
“Break the seals. Break the seals, and end it. Let me die forever.”
Lews Therin Telamon
(15 October 1994)
“Only a fool thinks his enemies stand still when he isn't looking, my Lord Dragon.”
Robert Jordan A Crown of Swords
Damer Flinn
A Crown of Swords (15 May 1996)
“Men! When you cannot win an argument, you either run away or resort to force.”
Egwene al'Vere
(15 November 1990)
“An Aes Sedai never lies, but the truth she speaks, may not be the truth you think you hear.”
Tam al'Thor
(15 January 1990)
“There's no time for winking at the men when you're busy bailing the boat.”
Siuan Sanche
(15 September 1992)
“All men dream. But I know dreams for dreams. This is reality.”
al'Lan Mandragoran
(15 November 1990)
Moiraine Damodred to Loial
(15 January 1990)
“I would not mind you in my head, if you were not so clearly mad.”
Robert Jordan The Path of Daggers
Lews Therin, to Rand
The Path of Daggers (20 October 1998)
Robert Jordan The Path of Daggers
Lews Therin
The Path of Daggers (20 October 1998)
“We are dead men. Dead men should be quiet in their graves, but they never are.”
Lews Therin Telamon
Winter's Heart (9 November 2000)
“Any day you wake up, maybe you die.”
Deni
Winter's Heart (9 November 2000)
