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.

Yes, I'm alive, Mat said. I'm usually pretty good at staying alive. I've only failed one time that I can remember, and it hardly counts.

Kneel and swear to the Lord Dragon, or you will be knelt.

Reading is like breathing. If you take it away, first I become antsy, then violent.

Violence harms the one who does it as much as the one who receives it. You could cut down a tree with an axe. The axe does violence to the tree, and escapes unharmed. Is that how you see it? Wood is soft compared to steel, but the sharp steel is dulled as it chops, and the sap of the tree will rust and pit it. The mighty axe does violence to the helpless tree, and is harmed by it. So it is with men, though the harm is in the spirit.

Read and find out.

Only a battle lost is sadder than a battle won.

Whether the bear beats the wolf or the wolf beats the bear, the rabbit always loses.

I will hate the man you choose because he is not me, and love him if he makes you smile. No woman deserves the sure knowledge of widow's black as her brideprice, you least of all.

Cauthon lives, Arganda said. And that's bloody amazing, considering that someone blew up his command post, set fire to his tenet, killed a bunch of his damane, and chased off his wife. Cauthon crawled out of it somehow. Ha! Abell Cauthon said. That's my boy.

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

A man falling off a cliff to certain death will stretch out a hand even to his worst enemy.

Some men […] choose to seek greatness, while others are forced to it. It is always better to choose than to be forced. A man who is forced is never completely his own master. He must dance on the strings of those who forced him.

An open sack hides nothing, And an open door hides little, but an open man is surely hiding something. lini is quoted by Nynaeve.

Always something new, always something I didn't expect, and sometimes it isn't horrible.

Take what you can have. Rejoice in what you can save, and do not mourn your loses for too long.

If you don't know everything, you must go on with what you do know.

Take what you want, and pay for it.

How do you fight someone smarter than yourself? Rand whispered. The anser is simple. You make her think that you are sitting down across the table from her, ready to play her game. Then you punch her in the face as hard as you can.

By the way, I saved Moiraine. Chew on that as you try to decide which of the two of us is winning. -Mat

I always say, if you must mount the gallows, give a jest to the crowd, a coin to the hangman, and make the drop with a smile on your lips.

What is too absurd to be believed is believed because it is too absurd to be a lie.

Waiting turns men into bears in a barn, and women into cats in a sack.

I don't know. They could put up a warning sign or something. Hello. Welcome to Hindstrap. We will murder you in the night and eat your bloody face if you stay past sunset. Try the pies. Martna Maily makes them fresh daily.