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Quotes from Robert Jordan

Halt here! Now! By order of the Lord Dragon! Else he'll channel your head into your belly and feed you your own feet for breakfast!
~ Robert Jordan
Lord Luc, of course, was brother to Tigraine, then the Daughter-Heir of Andor, and he vanished in the Blight. Who Isam is, or what he has to do with Luc, I do not know, however." "We
~ Robert Jordan
He could almost hear the growling chuckles stifled in their throats while they waited for him.
~ Robert Jordan
Only a few of the wounded would be here, of course. They would have been coming as they could throughout the day, leaving as and when they could. If they could. None of the dead would be here. Only a battle lost is sadder than a battle won. He seemed to remember saying that before, long ago. Perhaps he had read it.
~ Robert Jordan
Eldrith Jhondar, seated at a lapis-inlaid table beneath a hanging on one white-plastered wall, was making careful notes from a tattered manuscript; sometimes she absently cleaned the nib of her pen on the sleeve of her dark wool dress. Marillin
~ Robert Jordan
too many Sitters who
~ Robert Jordan
A light breeze caught the scent of roses and ruffled tall calma bushes with their big red or white blossoms.
~ Robert Jordan
What fate?" The three were on their feet atop the pedestals, and he could not tell which shrieked which answer. "To marry the Daughter of the Nine Moons!" "To die and live again, and live once more a part of what was!" "To give up half the light of the world to save the world!" Together they howled like steam escaping under pressure. "Go to Rhuidean, son of battles! Go to Rhuidean, trickster! Go, gambler! Go!
~ Robert Jordan
My people live with a grave misconception of the world, Bayle. In doing so, they create injustice.
~ Robert Jordan
We can't go back, Mat. The Wheel has turned, for better or worse. And it will keep on turning, as lights die and forests dim, storms call and skies break. Turn it will. The Wheel is not hope, and the Wheel does not care, the Wheel simply is. But so long as it turns, folk may hope, folk may care. For with light that fades, another will eventually grow, and each storm that rages must eventually die. As long as the Wheel turns. As long as it turns. . . .
~ Robert Jordan
A man is more than one drive, one goal. No woman wants that in a man. It seems to me that men who spend time making something of themselves—rather than professing their devotion—are the ones who get somewhere. Both with women, and with life itself.
~ Robert Jordan
I won't shout at you! Nyanaeve shouted.
~ Robert Jordan
Old age was a frustration when there was so much to do.
~ Robert Jordan
The bed was narrow, the woman's elbows sharp and her feet icy despite thick blankets trapping the warmth of the small, tiled stove built in beneath the bed.
~ Robert Jordan
gallop could not take him away from his own thoughts. Death is lighter than a feather, duty heavier than a mountain. So many duties. Egwene. The Horn. Fain. Mat and his dagger. Why can't there just be one at a time? I have to take care of all of them. Oh, Light, Egwene!
~ Robert Jordan
En kötü olas?l?klar için plan yapmak iyidir, ama onlar?n a??rl??? alt?nda ezilmemen gerek. Sabit fikir haline getirmemelisin. Bir kraliçe, her ÅŸeyden önce, umut sahibi olmal?d?r.
~ Robert Jordan
The best plan lasts until the first arrow leaves the bow.
~ Robert Jordan
Ladies! A woman is a woman, Rand al'Thor. Unless she is a Wise One," she
~ Robert Jordan
been a Sitter before
~ Robert Jordan
Who are you that addresses me so? Hide your face from me, stranger. I had a son, once, with a face like that. I do not wish to see it on a killer.
~ Robert Jordan
Usually when a woman was in the wrong, she could find so many things to blame on the nearest man that he wound up thinking maybe he really was at fault. In
~ Robert Jordan
Leafblighter means to blind the Eye of the World, Lost One. He means to slay the Great Serpent. Warn the People, Lost One. Sightburner comes. Tell them to stand ready for He Who Comes With the Dawn. Tell them. . . .
~ Robert Jordan
It was who he was. He had not changed, he had not transformed. He had merely accepted.
~ Robert Jordan
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 anyways." —The Eye of the World
~ Robert Jordan