Quotes from Robert Jordan

He handed Mandarb off to a groom, holding up a finger to the horse and meeting his dark, liquid eyes. "No more biting grooms," he growled at the stallion.

he had been raised to believe it was a man's place to die if necessary before a woman had to.

Perhaps a mustache, like that thing infesting the gleeman's face.

For him to be in this condition almost robbed Rand of what courage he had managed to gather. But he had to keep on. That was all that kept him moving. He had to.

Dance with her, and she will forgive much; dance well, and she will forgive anything.

My mother, she said firmly, always told me the best way to learn to deal with a man was to learn to ride a mule. She said they have about equal brains most of the time. Sometimes the mule is smarter.

Asl?nda insanlar asla deÄŸiÅŸmiyordu, ama dünya rahats?z edici ölçüde düzenli bir biçimde deÄŸiÅŸiyordu. Bu gerçekle yaÅŸamay? öÄŸrenmek zorundayd?n?z ya da en az?ndan o gerçeÄŸin içinde canl? kalmay?. Zaman zaman, ÅŸans?n?z varsa, deÄŸiÅŸimlerin yönünü etkileyebilirdiniz, ama bir tanesini durdursan?z bile bir baÅŸkas?n? harekete geçirmiÅŸ olurdunuz.

I did not come to Tarwin's Gap to retreat, Agelmar." "Dai Shan, I'm led to believe you came here to die.

Moiraine, Perrin said, the man is dangerous. All men are dangerous, she replied in a cool voice.

Your humility, Lan Gaidin, has always been more arrogance than most kings could manage with their armies at their backs.

Ride on if you wish, you say. Once, there was a soldier loved a queen from afar, knowing it was hopeless, knowing he could never dare speak. Now the queen is gone, and only a woman remains, and I hope. I burn with hope! If

The Stone of Tear will never fall till the People of the Dragon come.

I mean to deal with the world as I find the world, for as long as I can.

The whole world rides on your shoulders. Remember you're a man, and do what needs to be done.

Sometimes"— he gave a meaningful look at Tam—"you have to take a chance, even if it's a poor one.

And men cried out to the Creator, saying, O Light of the Heavens, Light of the World, let the Promised One be born of the mountain, according to the Prophecies, as he was in Ages past and will be in Ages to come. Let the Prince of the Morning sing to the land that green things will grow and the valleys give forth lambs. Let the arm of the Lord of the Dawn shelter us from the Dark, and the great sword of justice defend us. Let the Dragon ride again on the winds of time.

People who claimed they were collecting money to help others often had a way of letting a good bit stick in their own pockets, or else they liked the power that spreading it about gave them, liked it far too much.

Beware the fox that makes the ravens fly, for he will marry you and carry you away. Beware the man who remembers Hawkwing's face, for he will marry you and set you free. Beware the man of the red hand, for him you will marry and none other

sky, and fleecy white clouds billowed across it.

He shall spill out the blood of those who call themselves Aiel as water on sand, and he shall break them as dried twigs, yet the remnant of a remnant shall he save, and they shall live.

When you knew you were going to hang, the only thing to do was grin at the noose

One might have thought that the years would also have taught her patience, but it had done the opposite. The older she grew, the less inclined she was to wait, for she knew she didn't have many years left. Anyone who claimed that old age had brought them patience was either lying or senile.

Perrin murmured, "Sung wood, my left foot. Those Aiel are searching for He Who Comes With the Dawn." And Mat added dryly, "They're looking for you, Rand.

We all wake from the dream one day," Gaul said gently, "but if she still dreams, we will find her. But if Aiel took her, we must go. They will move quickly. Even in . . . this." He put considerable disgust in the word, kicking at a clod of snow.