Quotes from Robert Jordan

He strains to hear a whisper who refuses to hear a shout.

Being a soldier is about keeping your terror in check.

The secret, it turned out, had not been to harden himself to the point of breaking. It had not been to become numb. It had been to walk in pain, like the pain of the wounds at his side, and accept that pain as part of him.

Verin gave herself a shake and looked at him. "Does it surprise you that your life might go differently if you made different choices, or different things happened to you? Though I never thought I—Well. The important thing is, we are here. Though not as we hoped.

A man who thinks all day about the catch he missed because of stormy weather ends up wasting time when the sky is clear.

hope is like a piece of string when you're drowning; it just isn't enough to get you out by itself." Egwene

once was happenstance, twice might be coincidence, but thrice or more indicated the actions of your enemies.

Even a queen must obey the law she makes, or there is no law.

If you do not learn from your losses, you will be ruled by them.

Why, Perrin, you must know that I love you." She stood there, watching his mouth work, then spoke slowly and carefully. "Like a brother, you great wooden-headed lummox! The arrogance of men never ceases to amaze me. You all think everything has to do with you, and every woman has to desire you.

Conan stared at the hand holding the pendant. The grim god of his Cimmerian northcountry, Crom, Lord of the Mound, gave a man only life and will. What he did with them, or failed to do, was up to him alone. Life and will.

A man's ring of heavy gold floated above Nynaeve's head, and above Elayne's, a red-hot iron and an axe.

Asha'man, kill! -Mazrim Taim

So this is Verin's Tel'aran'rhiod," she said. "Corianin Nedeal's World of Dreams. It does not look dangerous to me." But Verin had said it was. Black Ajah or not, Egwene did not see how any Aes Sedai could tell a lie right out. She could be mistaken. But she did not believe Verin was.

El hombre es el animal que se somete más fácilmente a un yugo, y el más difícil de mantener sujeto a él. Incluso cuando él lo escoge libremente.

No, lad, it no be the treasure that makes for seeing the world. If you find yourself a fistful of gold, or some dead king's jewels, all well and good, but it be the strangeness you see that pulls you to the next horizon.

A slow horse does not always reach the end of the journey

We must be back in Shadizar by tomorrow night, and we have matters to settle, you and I, when this is done." "I will look forward to it," Bombatta snarled. "And I," Conan said, starting forward again, "will look back upon it.

A man must seek duty, not glory.

Por el nombre de mi madre, desenvainaré cuando me digáis que lo haga y enfundaré cuando me digáis que enfunde. Por el nombre de mi madre, acudiré cuando me llaméis y me iré cuando me digáis que me marche. —Besó la hoja y alzó la mirada hacia ella, expectante.

The Warder seldom let himself get far from the Aes Sedai's side.

If you plan for the worst, all surprises are pleasant." "I

What you want is what you cannot have. What you cannot have is what you want. Lews Therin laughed maniacally. It

The only man completely at peace is a man without a navel.