Quotes from Robert Jordan

It is every man's right to choose when to Sheathe the Sword. --- Ingtar Shinowa ---

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

Knowing serves no real purpose, but then, neither does not knowing. Myself, I always prefer knowing to not.

I'll never forget the first time Davram took me by the scruff of my neck and showed me he was the stronger of us. It was magnificent! If a woman is stronger than her husband, she comes to despise him. She has the choice of either tyrannizing him or else making herself less in order not to make him less. If the husband is strong enough, though, she can be as strong as she is, as strong as she can grow to be.

How would you feel, Elayne said softly, if you saw your queen trying to kill a Trolloc with a sword as you ran away? I'd feel like I needed to bloody move to another country, Birgitte snapped, loosing another arrow, one where the monarchs don't have pudding for brains.

Thank you, the young mother said again. Thank you. The Black Tower protects, Logain heard himself say. Always. I will send him to you to be tested when he is of age, the woman promised, holding her son. I would have him join you, if he has the talent. The talent. Not the curse. The talent.

I had long wondered, Lan said to Tam. About the man who had given Rand that heron-marked blade. I wondered if he had truly earned it. Now I know. Lan raised his own sword in salute.

You can never know everything, and part of what you know is always wrong. Perhaps even the most important part. A portion of wisdom lies in knowing that. A portion of courage lies in going on anyway.

Listen sharp, think deep, and guard your tongue- Tam al'Thor

She's not for you, nor you for her; at least, not in the way you both want.

The Empress will follow where you go, she said. So she will, Mat said. As I'll follow where she goes, I suppose. I hope that doesn't lead us in too many circles.

Care for the living. I'll weep for the dead later. - Perrin Aybara

You'll use it, boy, and as long as you hate using it, you will use it more wisely than most men would. Wait. If ever you don't hate it any longer, then will be the time to throw it as far as you can and run the other way.

My mother says men are different from us. She says we want to be in love, but only with the one we want; a man needs to be in love, but he will love the first woman to tie a string to his heart. - Egwene, speaking to Elayne

My name is Nynaeve ti al'Meara Mandragoran. The message I want sent is this. My husband rides from World's End toward Tarwin's Gap, toward Tarmon Gai'don. Will he ride alone?

Most of those we call heroes only did what they had to do.

I've seen men die because they were sure that what should not happen,would not. -Robert Jordan(The eye of the world,Wheel of time)

All was shattered, and all but memory lost, and one memory above all others, of him who brought the Shadow and the Breaking of the World. And him they named Dragon.

A wise ruler takes advice, but should never be seen to take it. Let them think you know more than you do. It will not harm them, and it will help you.

A young wolfhound must meet his first wolf someday, but if the wolf sees him as a puppy, if he acts the puppy, the wolf will surely kill him. The wolfhound must be a wolfhound in the wolf's eyes even more than in his own, if he is to survive.

Storms rumble beyond the horizon, and the fires of heaven purge the earth. There is no salvation without destruction, no hope this side of death.

If the world is ending, a woman will want to fix her hair. If the world's ending, a woman will take the time to tell a man something he's done wrong. -Matrim Cauthon

How long had he been doing what was necessary instead of what was right? In a fair world they would be one and the same.

In wars, boy, fools kill other fools for foolish causes. That's enough for anyone to know.