Robert Jordan citations

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“In a cruel land, you either learned to laugh at cruelty or spent your life weeping.”

“Death comes for us all. We can only choose how to face it when it comes.”

“Sometimes, pain is all that lets you know you're alive.”

“He came like the wind, like the wind touched everything, and like the wind was gone.

-from The Dragon Reborn. By Loial, son of Arent son of Halan, the Fourth Age.”

“We are always more afraid than we wish to be, but we can always be braver than we expect.”

“Pessimism, she is a fond friend of yours, yes?" -
That's uncalled for. I barely know her. Mere acquaintances, at best.”

“Dance with her, and she will forgive much; dance well, and she will forgive anything.”

“Advice! Nobody tells us how to be men. We just are." "That is probably why you make such a bad job of it.- Perrin and Egwene”

“Do not trouble trouble till trouble troubles you.”

“Always leave a way out, unless you really want to find out how hard a man can fight when he’s nothing to lose.”

“The Wheel of Time turns, and Ages come and pass. What was, what will be, and what is, may yet fall under the Shadow.”

“Life is a dream from which we all must wake before we can dream again.”

“I'm a gambler, a farmboy, and I'm here to take command of your bloody army!

--Mat Cauthon”

“By the Creator at the moment of creation. May we shelter safe beneath the Light, in the Creator’s hand.”

“Anyone who claimed that old age had brought them patience was either lying or senile.”

“Bloody flaming ashes”

“Read and find out.”

“An open sack hides nothing, And an open door hides little, but an open man is surely hiding something.
lini is quoted by Nynaeve.”

“Reading is like breathing. If you take it away, first I become antsy, then violent.”

“Yes, I'm alive," Mat said. "I'm usually pretty good at staying alive. I've only failed one time that I can remember, and it hardly counts.”

“Waiting turns men into bears in a barn, and women into cats in a sack.”

“Take what you can have. Rejoice in what you can save, and do not mourn your losses too long.”

“Take what you want, and pay for it.”

“How do you fight someone smarter than yourself?" Rand whispered. "The anser is simple. You make her think that you are sitting down across the table from her, ready to play her game. Then you punch her in the face as hard as you can.”

“If you don't know everything, you must go on with what you do know.”

“One pretty woman means fun at the dance. Two pretty women mean trouble in the house. Three pretty women mean run for the hills.”

“By the way, I saved Moiraine. Chew on that as you try to decide which of the two of us is winning."
-Mat”

“Always something new, always something I didn't expect, and sometimes it isn't horrible.”

“A man falling off a cliff to certain death will stretch out a hand even to his worst enemy.”