Quotes from Robert Jordan

May you shelter in the palm of the Creator's hand, and may the last embrace of the mother welcome you home.

Courage to strengthen, fire to blind, music to daze, iron to bind.

The only man completely at peace is a man without a navel.

You are as eloquent as ever, Mat," Egwene said dryly. "Do you still have your pet fox?" "I do," Mat said. "He's snuggled up nice and warm.

Storms rumble beyond the horizon, and the fires of heaven purge the earth. There is no salvation without destruction, no hope this side of death.

hope is like a piece of string when you're drowning; it just isn't enough to get you out by itself.

The Empress will follow where you go," she said. "So she will," Mat said. "As I'll follow where she goes, I suppose. I hope that doesn't lead us in too many circles.

Time to toss the dice

I'm not certain that I draw from any one culture more than others. Many myths and legends of many different cultures are really the same story when you get to the heart of it. They are often cultural cautionary tales about how we should behave and how we should live.

Women often seemed to leave things unsaid, and in his limited experience it was what they did not say that proved the most trouble.

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

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.

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 above the great mountainous island of Tremalking. The wind was not the beginning. There are neither beginnings nor endings to the Wheel of Time. But it was a beginning.

Always plan for the worst, child, that way all your surprises are pleasant ones.

Do not trouble trouble till trouble troubles you.

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

If your enemy offers you two targets, strike at a third.

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

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

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

Dovie'andi se tovya sagain!

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

You didn't listen to me, Lan whispered. One last lesson. The hardest. Demandred struck, and Lan saw his opening. Lan lunged forward placing Demandred's sword point against his own side and ramming himself forward onto it. I did not come here to win, Lan whispered, smiling. I came here to kill you. Death is lighter than a feather. Demandred's eyes opened wide, and he tried to pull back. Too late. Lan's sword took him straight though the throat.