Quotes from Robert Jordan

We have made the world dance as we sang for three thousand years. That is difficult habit to break, as I have learned while dancing to your song. You must dance free, and even the best intentioned of my sisters may well try to guide your steps as I once did.

Women were glad when he came into their lives. It was not boasting. Women smiled for him; even when he left them, they smiled as if they would welcome him back. That was all he ever really wanted from women; a smile, a dance, a kiss, and to be remembered foundly.

Only a fool thinks a lion or a woman can truly be tamed.

A thousand stories had painted cities in his mind, the great cities of kings and queens, of thrones and powers and legends, and Caemlyn fit into those mind-deep pictures and water fits into a jug.

A man is the easiest animal to put on a leash, and the hardest to keep leashed. Even when he chooses it himself.

The only people I ever met who were sensible all the time were so boring that watching them could put you to sleep.

May Your Swords Stay Sharp! - Lan Pendragon

The Wheel of Time turns, and ages come and pass, leaving memories that become legend. Legend fades to myth, and even myth is long forgotten when the Age that gave it birth comes again. In one Age, called the Third Age by some, an Age yet to come, an Age long past, a wind rose in the Mountains of Mist. The wind was not the beginning. There are neither beginnings nor endings to the turning of the Wheel of time. But it was a beginning.

He did not own her, and she did not own him. The act of his movement so that they faced the same direction meant far more to her than other gesture could. -Aviendha about Rand

Elayne, she said softly as they resumed their climb, if we are caught, I swear that before they kill us, or do whatever they do, I will beg them on bended knees to let me stripe you from top to bottom with the stoutest switch I can find!

Light, why did the Pattern have to catch me up with you? Why couldn't I have something safe and simple, like being shipwrecked with no food and a dozen hungry Aielmen?

Those intricate curves and patterns your people create are beyond human eyes and hands to make. Perhaps we wished to avoid a poor imitation that would only have been an ever-present reminder to us of what we had lost. There is a different beauty in simplicity, in a single line placed just so, a single flower among the rocks. The harshness of the stone makes the flower more precious. We try not to dwell too much on what is gone. The strongest heart will break under that strain.

They could put up a warning sign or something. Hello. Welcome to Hinderstap. We will murder you in the night and eat your bloody face if you stay past sunset. Try the pies. Martna Baily makes them fresh daily.

Cheer the bull, or cheer the bear; cheer both, and you will be trampled and eaten.

You will do well.

Nothing makes Semirhage weep. She gives tears to others, but she has none herself.

Well, we'll survive, the Light willing. Some grinned and added, And if the Light doesn't will, we'll still survive.

People are people, low or high.

In Shinear, a woman [is] safe anywhere, any time-except from Trollocs and Myrddraal, of course-and any man [will] die to see it so.

People did not respond to anger. They did not respond to demands. Silence and questions, these were far more effective.

Fear will kill you if you don't control it.

Well, if wishes were horses, beggars would ride.

Some people thought scars a sign of toughness. It seemed to Perrin that fewer scars meant that you knew what you were doing.

Facing them (men) with knives and spears was much easier than loving them, much easier.