Quotes from Robert Jordan

I think that quite often you can only find a choice between bad and worse. But I think it's worth making the effort, and I like to expose my characters to that sort of situation.

The only rules he wanted to remember were "never kiss a girl whose brothers have knife scars" and "never gamble without knowning a back way out

I'd run. But maybe you can't run. Think of that, too.' His yellow eyes seemed to look inward, and he sounded tired. 'Sometimes you can't run.

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)

Never think I have abandoned you. When the sun shines on you, it is my smile. When you hear the breeze stir through the apple blossoms, it is my whisper that I love you. My love is yours forever.

A fool puts her hand into a hollow tree without finding out what's inside first.

What is already woven cannot be undone. It will not make the trees grow again for you to bring the building down on our heads.

Trust is as slippery as a basket of eels sometimes.

A man without trust is a man without life.

Better ten days of love than years of regretting.

Love is an odd thing. As odd a thing as there is.

Bound by the Oath against lying, Aes Sedai had carried the halftruth, the quarter-truth and the implication to arts.

What I love I destroy. What I destroy, I love.

She understood his eyes, colder than winter's heart. A man who knew he was dead and couldn't make himself care; you are spared that. Mashiara. His lost love.

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.

If you try putting a woman on a horse when she does not want to go, she may put a knife in your ribs.

The best way to avoid trouble is to make sure no one wants to trouble you.

There are things worth fighting for.

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

There is one rule, above all others, for being a man. Whatever comes, face it on your feet.

The men in my family are strong because the women in my family kill and eat the weak ones.

A man must know when to retreat from a woman, but a wise man knows that sometimes he must stand and face her.

I will hate the man you choose because he is not me, and love him if he makes you smile. No woman deserves the sure knowledge of widow's black as her brideprice, you least of all.

Men always believe they are in control of everything around them. When they find out they are not, they think they have failed, instead of learning a simple truth women already know.