Quotes from Robert Jordan

The whole day of Bel Tine would be taken up with singing and dancing and feasting, with time out for footraces, and contests in almost everything. Prizes would be given not only in archery, but for the best with the sling, and the quarterstaff. There would be contests at solving riddles and puzzles, at the rope tug, and lifting and tossing weights, prizes for the best singer, the best dancer and the best fiddle player, for the quickest to shear a sheep, even the best at bowls, and at darts.

Tia mi aven Moridin isainde vadin (The grave is no bar to my call)

Logic is always applicable to the real world," Miyasi said dismissively, "but only a novice would think the real world can be applied to logic. Ideals must be first principles. Not the mundane world.

At the south end of the inn, away from the stream, stretched the remains of a much larger stone foundation, once part of the inn—or so it was said. A huge oak grew in the middle of it now, with a bole thirty paces around and spreading branches as thick as a man. In the summer, Bran al'Vere set tables and benches under those branches, shady with leaves then, where people could enjoy a cup and a cooling breeze while they talked or perhaps set out a board for a game of stones.

I want you to stop thinking you're going to make them do anything. They've decided what they are going to do, and you can't change it. But maybe—just maybe—you can help me keep them alive.

legalább maradj talpon, úgy fogadd el az elkerülhetetlent. (...)

You are more precious to me than life. Never think I have abandoned you. When the sun shines on you, it is my smile. When you hear the breeze stir through the apple blossoms, it is my whisper that I love you. My love is yours forever.

How do you know when a woman wants to kill you?" Rand mused. "When she knows your name?" Dobraine

No one is ever so far in the Shadow, that he can't once again walk in the light.

Which cliff did you choose? Pevara sent him. What? You said that when you were among the Sea Folk, they jumped off cliffs to prove their bravery. The higher the cliff, the braver the jumper. Which cliff did you choose? The highest, he admitted. Why? I figured that once you've decided to jump off a cliff, you might as well pick the highest one. Why accept the risk, if not for the greatest prize?

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.

The sun rose reluctantly, without warmth.

Impatience was a vice when beginning a journey of unknown length.

He had four rules concerning action and information. Never make a plan without knowing as much as you can of the enemy. Never be afraid to change your plans when you receive new information. Never believe you know everything. And never wait to know everything. The man who waited to know everything was still sitting in his tent when the enemy burned it over his head.

He calls upon the mountains to kneel, and the seas to give way, and the very skies to bow. Pray that the heart of stone remembers tears, and the soul of fire, love.

In a cruel land, you either learned to laugh at cruelty or spent your life weeping;

memory expanded what it did not shrink.

there was nothing a woman liked better than finding men who were relaxing, then giving them orders.

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

Life was only a dream, and all dreams had to end. Aiel

The key to leadership is in the rippling waves.

Do you remember when we took that tame sport called swords and learned to kill with it, as the old volumes said men once had?

Quite a story." Elyas nodded. "Yes, quite a story. There's a few things wrong with it, but the main thing is Dapple says it's all a lump of lies. Every last word.

A man's dreams are a maze even he cannot know," Bair had told her once.