Quotes from Robert Jordan

Even fools say something worthwhile now and again. Even a blind pig finds an acorn sometimes.

On the heights, all paths are paved with daggers.

But it was an ending.

A secret spoken finds wings.

The only way was forward, whatever lay at the end.

There was a wild light in his eyes. Bring your lightnings, Aes Sedai. I will dance with them.

Hardness shatters; strength endures.

Remember that any meal can be your last. You chose to travel with us, so tonight you will eat fish. Tomorrow, you may die.

Should and would build no bridges. -Lini

hope is like a piece of string when you're drowning; it just isn't enough to get you out by itself.

No man can walk so long in the Shadow that he cannot come again to the Light.

Juilin, she asked hesitantly, what were you going to do with the salt and cooking oil? Not exactly, she added more quickly. Just a general idea. He looked at her for a moment. I do not know. But they did not, either. That is the trick of it; their minds made up worse then I ever could. I have seen a tough man break when I sent for a basket of figs and some mice.

All men are ignorant, Aes Sedai. The topics of our ignorance may change, but the nature of the world is that no man may know everything.

Both of them? Mat spluttered. Light! Two! Oh, burn me! He's the luckiest man in the world or the biggest fool since creation!

The Light shine on you, and the Creator shelter you. The last embrace of the mother welcome you home.

Does it make you brave to stick your hand in a bear's mouth? Would you do it again just because you didn't die?

If you wish, you may call me Rand Sedai.

If it's not forbidden, then it's allowed

When a woman says she will obey you, of her own will, it is time to sleep lightly and watch your back.

What did you spend so much time talking about with Ila? If you weren't dancing with that long-legged fellow, you were talking to her like it was some kind of secret." "Ila was giving me advice on being a woman," Egwene replied absently. He began laughing, and she gave him a hooded, dangerous look that he failed to see. "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.

Nobody walks a difficult path without stumbling now and again. It didn't break you when you fell. That's the important part.

Remember the flame, lad, and the void." It was an odd thing Tam had taught him. Concentrate on a single flame and feed all your passions into it—fear, hate, anger—until your mind became empty. Become one with the void, Tam said, and you could do anything.

Life is a dream—that knows no shade. Life is a dream—of pain and woe. A dream from which—we pray to wake. A dream from which—we wake and go. Who would sleep—when the new dawn waits? Who would sleep—when the sweet winds blow? A dream must end—when the new day comes. This dream from which—we wake and go.

You're not asking me to guess the mind of Matrim Cauthon, are you? Elayne asked. I'm convinced that Mat only acts simple so that people will let him get away with more.