Quotes from Robert Jordan

Demandred! Galad yelled. Demandred, you call for the Dragon Reborn! You demand to fight him! He is not here, but his brother is! Will you stand against me?

A woman would do a thing until you were sure she always would, then do something else just to fuddle you.

He never understood. You surrender after you're dead.

Behind him, Birgitte Silverbow stood over her corpse, one foot to either side of the headless body.

I am Birgitte Silverbow, Birgitte announced, as if to dispel doubt. The Horn of Valere has sounded, calling all to the Last Battle. The heroes have returned!

People had a way of folding what they saw into what they knew and what they wanted to believe.

He found what he'd hoped to see, the reason why she'd left so quickly. Just outsidee the tent, Lan held her tightly.

Well perhaps you humans do have short lives but you do so much with them. Always jumping around, always so hasty and you have the whole world to do it in. - Loial

Death came for every man eventually, and seldom where or when he expected.

Oh, kiss a flaming goat if I know what I mean.

I told you to make weapons, Taim. Show me just how deadly they are. Disperse the Shaido. Break them.

I thought you were dead," Bera breathed. Cadsuane sniffed irritably. "I am growing tired of hearing that. The next imbecile I hear it from is going to yelp for a week.

She stood in one smooth motion, surprisingly pale where the sun not touch her, slender and hard-muscled, yet with roundnesses and softnesses that haunted his dreams.

Why? Rand thought with wonder. Because each time we live, we get to love again.

He isn't a horse, Elayne. You don't own him.

You can ask or demand anything of me, but never to let you die without trying to save you. The day you die, I die.

but it be the strangeness you see that pulls you to the next horizon.

The moon by day the sun by night, deaf woman, blind men, jackdaw fool, let the lord of Chaos rule.

It was easier to ask forgiveness, than permission.

The difference between you and Cadsuane is that you actually care about me. She only cares about my place in her plans. She wants me to be part of the Final battle. You want me to live. For that, you have my thanks. Dream on my behalf, Nynaeve. Dream for things I no longer can.

And it was written that no hand but his should wield the Sword held in the Stone, but he did draw it out, like fire in his hand, and his glory did burn the world. Thus did it begin. Thus do we sing his Rebirth. Thus do we sing the beginning.

When an officer runs by with a look like that on his face, you don't ask if he needs help. You just follow!

The fall of the Stone will be one of the major proofs that the Dragon has been reborn. May the Stone stand till I am dust.

It was hard to explain to students that there was a rule that trumped all of the others: Always trust your instincts.