Quotes from Robert Jordan

I do not know. But they did not, either. That is the trick of it; their minds made up worse than I ever could. I

that you should believe nothing you hear, and only half of what you see.

But it did matter. He'd spent his entire life searching. He'd apprenticed to a dozen different professions. He'd fought in revolts, sailed two seas. All the while searching, searching for something he hadn't been able to define. He'd found it when he'd come to the Black Tower.

For that much power, I would praise the Great Lord of the Dark under the Dome of Truth.

Men always seemed to think violence could solve anything. If she had had a stout stick, she would have thumped all three of them about the shoulders until they saw reason.

Las viejas barreras se debilitan. Nuestro tiempo está impregnado de disolución y cambio. Las cosas antiguas vuelven a manifestarse y otras nuevas tienen nacimiento. Tal vez vivamos lo bastante para ver el fin de una era.» Se estremeció.

And I think whoever finds you will ask a great many questions before they remove those collars. I think perhaps you will learn at first hand the life you have given to other women. That is justice," she added, to the others.

You hammered the iron that lay on your anvil instead of daydreaming about working silver.

Por tu expresión, Nynaeve, habría pensado que estás furiosa, pero sé que es tal tu dulzura que la gente te pide que remuevas su té con tus dedos.

smiling a fixed smile that never touched his eyes.

be hostile unless you must, Moiraine had said, but above all never be overly friendly. Never be eager

Yet to achieve greatly, a man must believe something. Belief and knowledge pave the road to greatness. Knowledge is perhaps the most valuable of all. We all seek the coin of knowledge.

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

The male and female halves of the True Source were alike and unalike, attracting and repelling, fighting against each other even as they worked together to drive the Wheel of Time.

Death was terrible. That didn't stop it from being necessary.

His huge, ambitious Wheel of Time series helped redefine the genre." —George R. R. Martin, internationally bestselling author of A Game of Thrones

It could crush you, that despair. But the act of creating something—anything—fought back.

Rain," that word still came clumsily too, "coming from a bowl. There are snares and pitfalls around the bowl. If the right hands pick it up, they will find a treasure perhaps as great as the bowl. If the wrong hands, the world is doomed. The key to finding the bowl is to find the one who is no longer.

You are well muscled for such a short man, Matrim Cauthon.

They were all watching him, all waiting. Death is lighter than a feather, duty heavier than a mountain. He made his decision.

Cities, she thought, they're the problem. Cities were stinking, festering places, like sores that never healed. Some were better than others—Elayne did an admirable job with Caemlyn—but the best of them gathered too many people and taught them to grow comfortable staying in one place.

At my age, if I make it up, it's still an old saying.

Kesabaran adalah kebajikan yang harus dipelajari, tetapi kita semua harus siap untuk perubahan secepat apapun - Sheriam

and I'll be hanged before I let Andor march to the Last Battle without me.