Quotes from Robert Jordan

Some women," Dyelin murmured into her wine, "can make a fish bite by crooking a finger, Lady Birgitte. Other women have to drag their bait all over the pond.

Death is lighter than a feather, duty heavier than a mountain.

Better ten days of love than years of regretting

I've been thinking." Her eyebrows rose, but he was used to surprise whenever he claimed an idea. Even when his ideas were as good as theirs, they always remembered how deliberate he was in thinking of them.

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.

I kept telling them I didn't know anything about it, but half of them seemed to think that I was lying, and the other half that I was hinting at something.

Small things were important. Seconds were small things, and if you heaped enough of those on top of one another, they became a man's life.

Why do they use it like that? Peace." "When you have never known a thing except to dream," Lan replied, heeling Mandarb forward, "it becomes more than a talisman.

The topics of our ignorance may change, but the nature of the world is that no man may know everything.

What they did not see, they could ignore; what they did not see was not really there.

Strong endures; hard shatters." Cadsuane

Who would rule a nation when he could have easier work, such as carrying water uphill in a sieve?

The fact that the price must be paid is proof that it is worth paying.

Leaders in stories never had to put up with this sort of thing.

In wars, boy, fools kill other fools for foolish causes.

Sometimes you had to laugh if only to keep from crying.

What was irritating was that they sat there with their heads together as though he had ceased to exist. Neither looked around until he cleared his throat again, loud enough that he wondered whether he had strained something.

Why, to see, Loial said as if it were the most obvious thing in the world. I read the books, all the travelers' accounts, and it began to burn in me that I had to see, not just read.

The weak must be bold cautiously.

Women lied to get a man into bed, and they lied worse once they had him there.

MEN WHO THINK THEY ARE OPPRESSED WILL SOMEDAY FIGHT. I WILL REMOVE FROM THEM NOT JUST THEIR WILL TO RESIST, BUT THE VERY SUSPICION THAT SOMETHING IS WRONG.

Most people were more willing to talk about fighting than to do it, especially against soldiers.

We rode on the winds of the rising storm, We ran to the sounds of the thunder. We danced among the lightning bolts, and tore the world asunder. —

Lan Mandragoran, you bloody wonderful man! You did it! -Mat