Quotes from Robert Jordan

I ran from you as hard as I could to shield my honor. And you followed me even here. The rings do not lie, and I can run no more. Her tone firmed decisively. I will run no more.

There's always something new from you,' Perrin growled. 'Can't you tell us what to expect once in a while, instead of explaining after it happens?

Of course, we believe. The Wheel of Time weaves the Pattern of the Ages, and lives are the threads it weaves. No one can tell how the thread of his own life will be woven into the Pattern, or how the thread of a people will be woven.

Funny how being scared takes you. You think strange things.

We'll talk about it," she murmured, the bond filling with stubborn resolve. The most dire words a woman can say short of "I'm going to kill you," Rand thought.

Men forget, but never forgive; women forgive, but never forget. Morgase

When you were secure with what you were, there was no cause to resent being shown your place.

I am a student of history," she said at last, "a collector of old stories.

a general can take care of the living or weep for the dead, but he cannot do both.

La Rueda teje según sus designios y en su momento. La paciencia es una virtud que debe aprenderse, pero todos debemos estar dispuestos a aceptar el cambio en un instante.

A plan revealed is a plan doomed to fail.

He seemed composed now, too much so, a boiling teakettle with the lid strapped down and the spout plugged.

Things are never as bad as they appear, Dai

There was a saying in the Borderlands: "Duty is heavier than a mountain, death lighter than a feather." Once you had that mountain firmly on your shoulders, there was no way to put it down. There was no one else to carry it anyway, and no use whining about

Also, I was beginning to tire of waiting for the lightning. If it was going to strike, let it strike.

We all make our limits. The thought slid up surprisingly from somewhere. And we set them further out than we have any right.

yet not a quarter so well as you display yourself, for night-blooming dara lilies would weep with envy to see you stroll beside the moonlit water, as I would do, and make myself a bard to sing your praises by this very moon.

the Law of Unintended Consequences, stronger than any written law. Whether or not what you do has the effect you want, it will have three at least you never expected, and one of those usually unpleasant.

Courage to strengthen," Noal whispered, stepping forward, holding up a lantern with a flickering flame. "Fire to blind. Music to dazzle. Iron to bind." "And Matrim Cauthon," Mat added. "To bloody even the odds." He stepped through the doorway.

Advice! Nobody tells us how to be men. We just are." "That," Egwene said, "is probably why you make such a bad job of it.

This audience is at an end," Rand said. "I will forget every face that departs now.

Women just purely enjoyed planting needles in a man.

The White Tower will be whole again, except for remnants cast out and scorned, whole and stronger than ever. Rand al'Thor will face the Amyrlin Seat and know her anger. The Black Tower will be rent in blood and fire, and sisters will walk its grounds. This I Foretell.

The blood of the Dragon Reborn on the rocks of Shayol Ghul will free mankind from the Shadow.