Quotes from Robert Jordan

There is some delight in ale and wine And some in girls with ankles fine But my delight, yes always mine Is to dance with Jak O' the Shadows We will toss the dice however they fall And snuggle the girls be they short or tall Then follow Lord Mat whenever he calls To dance with Jak O' the Shadows.

Loial, son of Arent, son of Halen, had secretly always wanted to be hasty.

Two days' hunger made a fine sauce for anything.

A beautiful battle is one you don't have to fight

It was easier to be brave when someone needed your protection.

Burn you, Nerim, that's a leg not a bloody side of beef! As my lord says, Nerim murmured. My lord's leg is not a side of beef. Thank you, my lord, for instructing me.

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.

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

As the Wheel of Time turns, places wear many names. Men wear many names, many faces. Different faces, but always the same man. Yet no one knows the Great Pattern the Wheel weaves, or even the Pattern of an Age. We can only watch, and study, and hope.

One pretty woman means fun at the dance. Two pretty women means trouble in the house. Three pretty women means run at the hills.

Demandred blocked Lan's attack but he breathed hoarsely. Who are you? Demandred whispered again. No one of this Age has such skill. Asmodean? No, no. He couldn't have fought me like this. Lews Therin? It is you behind that face, isn't it? I am just a man, Lan whispered. That is all I have ever been.

You read too much and understand too little.

I have never known anyone else, Egwene said to him, who will work so hard to avoid hard work, Matrim Cauthon.

Come to think of it, an Aes Sedai would probably follow a man off a cliff, too, if only to explain to him - in detail - all the things he was doing incorrectly in the way he went about killing himself.

Lan told me once that Malkier lives so long as one man wears the hadori in pledge that he will fight the Shadow, so long as one woman wears the ki'sain in pledge that she will send her sons to fight the Shadow. I wear the ki'sain , Master Aldragoran. My husband wears the hadori . So do you. Will Lan Mandragoran ride to the Last Battle alone?

If you watch the wolf too hard, a mouse will bite you on the ankle

You break your neck, and I'll see it mended just so I can break it again. ~ Nynaeve

The lions sing and the hills take flight. The moon by day, and the sun by night. Blind woman, deaf man, jackdaw fool. Let the Lord of Chaos rule. -chant from a children's game heard in Great Arvalon, the Fourth Age

The Golden Crane flies for Tarmon Gai'don!

I do not like odd things until I can understand them.

the wolf may fight the bear but the rabbit always looses

The rose petal floats on water. The kingfisher flashes above the pond. Life and beauty swirl in the midst of death.

Women do not become exhausted they only exhaust others.

If wishes had wings, sheep would fly.