Quotes from Robert Jordan

You can never know everything," Lan said quietly, "and part of what you know is always wrong. Perhaps even the most important part. A portion of wisdom lies in knowing that. A portion of courage lies in going on anyway.

Actually, I figured out how to lose bloody ages ago. -Mat

Oh, well, Mat said idly, she's just the Dragon Reborn's woman. (about Min)

The innocent died along with the guilty. And if you did nothing, then only the innocent died.

When you ask questions, Lini used to say, then you have to hear the answers whether you want to or not.

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

The Amyrlin Seat has fallen, a nearby Aes Sedai cried amid the crystallized Sharans. The Amyrlin Seat has fallen!

Until you can, remember this. We are always more afraid than we wish to be, but we can always be braver than we expect.

The newest pups always blame the elders of the pack.

I'm only an old gleeeman,' he said from the door. 'Who could I possibly be dangerous to?

How do you know when a woman wants to kill you?" Rand mused. "When she knows your name?" Dobraine did not sound as if he were joking.

Stay and get married, or travel the Ways. Loial grimaced ruefully. Life is very unsettling with ta'veren for friends.

You cannot make the land go against itself. Not for long; the land will rebel. You must shape the vision to the land, not the land to the vision.

The Wheel of Time weaves the Pattern of the Ages, and lives are the threads it weaves. No one can tell how the thread of his own life will be woven into the Pattern, or how the thread of a people will be woven.

Lord Rand, Nynaeve snorted. That young man is growing too big for his breeches. When I get my hand on him, I'll lord him.

That had the irritating sound of an old saying.

Hero! He was no hero! What did a hero get? An Aes Sedai patting you on the head before she sent you out like a hound to do it again. A noblewoman condescending to favor you with a kiss, or laying a flower on your grave.

When you have a wolf by the ears, it's as hard to let go as to hold on.

Life is a dream, and everyone wakes eventually.

Egwene didn't notice someone new entering the tent. Rand did, however, and he spun as the flaps parted and let in light. He frowned at the interloper. His frown died as soon as he saw the person who entered. Moiraine.

But only a fool thought he knew what was in a woman's head just because she had a smile on her face.

Lan shook his head sightly He was better. But he thought I was finished, with only one arm. He never understood. You surrender after you're dead.

The wind blew southwards, through knotted forests, over shimmering plains and toward lands unexplored. This wind, it was not the ending. There are no endings, and never will be endings, to the turning of the Wheel of Time. But it was an ending.

No plan of battle survives first contact