Robert Jordan citations

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“The people seemed nearly ostentatious about minding their own business.”

“Remember that any meal can be your last. You chose to travel with us, so tonight you will eat fish. Tomorrow, you may die.”

“It's not evil, Rand. I know something evil when I smell it. This isn't evil, it's just incredibly stupid.”

“As sure as peaches are poison.”

“You cannot please everyone. You cannot soothe everyone.”

“You could weave silk from pig bristles before you could make a man anything but a man.”

“As well you try to understand the sun, Perrin. It simply is, and it is not to be understood. You cannot live without it, but it exacts a price. So with women.”

“…but who can know the heart of a man? Not even he himself, I suspect. A man is the easiest animal to put on a leash, and the hardest to keep leashed. Even when he chooses it himself.”

“Men always say they didn't mean it that way. You would think they spoke a different language.”

“Men believe the worst easily, and women believe it hides something still darker.”

“A man without trust might as well be dead.”

“If a woman does need a hero, she needs him today, not tomorrow.”

“We hear less, Davram Bashere, but perhaps sometimes we see more.”

“I would burn the world and use my soul for tinder to hear her laugh again.”

“The best way to avoid trouble is to make sure no one wants to trouble you.”

“A cat for a hat, or a hat for a cat. But nothing for nothing.”

“There’s no point letting honey age too long before you eat it.”

“What could not be changed must be endured.”

“Love is an odd thing. As odd a thing as there is.”

“There is some delight in ale and wine
And some in girls with ankles fine
But my delight, yes always mine
Is to dance with Jak O’ the Shadows

We will toss the dice however they fall
And snuggle the girls be they short or tall
Then follow lord Mat whenever he calls
To dance with Jak O’ the Shadows.”

“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.”