Quotes from Robert Jordan

You have made a place in my heart where I thought there was no room for anything else

Politics is a foggy mire full of snakes.

Yamada might be a good general—Mat did not know—but he had never stood a chance against Riselle and that marvelous bosom.

Take life as it comes. Run when you have to, fight when you must, rest when you can.

All women are Aes Sedai.

I've stayed with you this long, Rand. Why would I stop now?" Loial

Continuity provides stability, and stability brings prosperity

Who we were is lost to all men, and life is bitter.

Light, but a man could drown in those eyes and be happy doing it.

He said the Dark One intended to blind the Eye of the World, and slay the Great Serpent, kill time itself.

I'm no lord. I've more respect for myself than that.

All men are ignorant, Aes Sedai," Androl said. "The topics of our ignorance may change, but the nature of the world is that no man may know everything.

Even the mountains will be worn down with time

Anger made for hasty decisions and rash words that sometimes were hard to take back.

He came like the wind, like the wind touched everything, and like the wind was gone.

At dawn the day was born, just as twilight gave birth to night, but at dawn, night died, and at twilight, day.

Not all options will be good ones. Sometimes you have to make the best of a bad lot and ride the storm.

He expected the other man to be dead—not many could survive a thirty-foot fall to cobblestones with another's weight on top of him—but what he had not expected was to see the fellow's dagger driven to the hilt into his own heart. Such an ordinary-looking man to have tried to kill him. Mat did not think he would even have noticed him in a crowded room.

A sword is dangerous to the man at the point, but not to the man at the hilt. Unless the man holding the sword is a fool, or careless, or unskilled, in which case it i twice as dangerous to him as to anyone else.

Afterwards, we will do as we must. As we do now.

It left a feeling of something not done.

They want to own the world, but it seems you already own a people.

when a dangerous path was your only route to safety, you had to take it.

kneel and swear to the lord dragon, he said softly, or you will be knelt. Lord of Chaos