Quotes from Robert Jordan

The spine that refused to bend at all was often the most malleable once it gave way.

There are neither beginnings nor endings to the turning of the Wheel of Time. But it was a beginning.

Do not cut off your ears because you do not like your earrings.

Small courtesies were the lubricant of daily life.

You'll use it, boy, and as long as you hate using it, you will use it more wisely than most men would.

As far as he was concerned, a man who decided to rob and kill deserved what he got when he lost the game. He did not dwell on them, but neither did he jerk his eyes away if they fell on one of the robbers.

In the last, lorn fight 'gainst the fall of long night, the mountains stand guard, and the dead shall be ward, for the grave is no bar to my call.

The worst sin a general can commit, worse than blundering, worse than losing, worse than anything, is to desert the men who depend on him.

Its time to role the dice.

Perhaps, knowing what Rand is, knowing how strongly ta'veren he is, I have paid too little attention to the other two ta'veren I found with him. Three ta'veren in the same village, all born within weeks of one another? That is unheard of. Perhaps you—and Mat—have larger purposes in the Pattern than you, or I, thought.

It is better to be the hammer than the nail.

Only a Darkfriend would betray an oath such as that one. Of course, every Seanchan was close to being a Darkfriend.

You never escape the traps you spin yourself.

When a woman plays the fool, look for the man.

Most libraries held treasures even the librarians did not suspect.

The determination of a man set upon justice is a thing not lightly ignored.

Pain was as much a part of life as breathing.

A young man chases shadows and runs from moonlight, and in the end he stabs himself in the foot with his own spear.

The woman never wanted much. Just her own way. Like just about every other woman he had ever known.

Change came so slowly you never noticed it creeping up on you, or far too fast for comfort, but it came. Nothing

As Tam had taught him long ago, he formed a single flame in his mind and fed his fears into it, seeking emptiness, the stillness of the void. The flame seemed to grow until it enveloped everything, until it was too large to contain or imagine any longer. With that it was gone, leaving in its place a sense of peace. At its edges, emotions still flickered, fear and anger like black blotches, but the void held. Thought skimmed across its surface like pebbles across ice.

Perrin suspected Lini was one of those women who saw her "place" as being in charge. Come to think of it, most women did. That was the way of the world, it seemed, not just the Two Rivers.

The Light shine on you, Lord Ingtar of House Shinowa, and may you shelter in the palm of the Creator's hand." He touched Ingtar's shoulder. "The last embrace of the mother welcome you home.

there was a solidness to him, as though a flood could wash around him without uprooting his feet.