Quotes from Robert Jordan

The Wheel of Time turns, and Ages come and pass, leaving memories that become legend.

He's a little plump for my taste, but I always say a man can't be too fat if enough gold comes with it.

three, and while he breathed, he could not abandon Elayne or Egwene.

Aemon had sent out messengers. Aid was promised if they could hold for but three days at the Tarendrelle. Hold for three days against odds that should overwhelm them in the first hour. Yet somehow, through bloody assault and desperate defense, they held through an hour, and the second hour, and the third. For three days they fought, and though the land became a butcher's yard, no crossing of the Tarendrelle did they yield.

But I defied you!" "A Wise One cannot allow others to step upon her," Amys said. "If she comes into the shade of our sisterhood thinking like an apprentice, then she will never see herself as one of us.

Perrin laid a finger across her lips just as she opened her mouth. She bit him—hard—but she did not say anything.

A good thing the taste of that tea made me suspicious. Imagine trying to feed forkroot to someone who knows herbs as well as I do." "Schemes within schemes," Melaine murmured. "The Great Serpent is a good sign for you Aes Sedai, I think. Someday you may swallow yourselves by accident.

It often seemed strange that evil had left no outward mark.

A weeping woman is a bucket with no bottom." Lini had been full of sayings like that.

Oh, very well. The best of men are not much better than housebroken." Nynaeve paused, and added half to herself, "But then, the best of them are worth the trouble of housebreaking.

Do we fight? If we do, then know that in battle there is only winning and losing. Rules against hurting are for games.

The roof the muscular youth traveled came to an end, and he peered down into the blackness hiding the paving stones of the street, four stories below. His eyes were frozen sapphires, and his face, a square-cut lion's mane of black held back from it by a leather cord, showed several ordinary lifetimes' experience despite its youth.

Perhaps I also dwell too much on what is gone. And yet, the groves were beautiful.

Some of us have more honor than others, earned by wisdom, actions and experience." Melaine held up a finger. "But it is important—vital, even—that each Wise One be willing to defend her own well. If she believes that she is right, she cannot let herself be shoved aside, even by other Wise Ones, no matter how aged or wise.

Muad'drin tia dar allende caba'drin rhadiem!

Lan had begun an intense study of the contents of his pipe's bowl.

And so he did. He wished he could protect them better, but he would simply have to carry that burden. 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.

These days, only the heat of anger gave him the strength to keep moving.

Los Valdar Cuebiyari! Los! Carai an Caldazar! Al Caldazar!

Taim will have to wait

The Dark One," Lan said, "cannot be defeated without chancing risks. But we are alive at this moment, and before us is the hope of remaining alive. Do not surrender before you are beaten.

We must look and see Light, not Shadow, or we'll all be pulled under.

You can't hold a man to blame for what he does when he's crazy, can you?" "You were always crazy," Perrin said, and for a moment he, too, sounded as of old. "No," Nynaeve said. Tears made her eyes bright, but she was smiling. "None of us blames you.

A wise ruler, Elayne thought, knows when to speak and when not.