Quotes from Robert Jordan

p.s. In case you don't know what Do what needs to be done means, it means that I want you to go bloody slaughter as many of the Sharan channelers as you can. I'll bet you a full Tar Valon mark-it's only been shaved on the sides a little-that you can't kill twenty.-MC missive from Mat to Galad

He is born again! I feel him! The Dragon takes his first breath on the slope of Dragonmount! He is coming! He is coming! Light help us! Light help the world! He lies in the snow and cries like the thunder! He burns like the sun!

When you saw me with a dagger in hand - as if to throw at you - you didn't call for your guards. You didn't fear I was here to kill you. You looked over your shoulder to see what I was aiming at. That's the most loving gesture I think a man could receive from a woman. Unless you'd like to sit on my knee for a while...

Two hands. One to destroy, the other to save. Which had he lost?

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.

There is a different beauty in simplicity, in a single line placed just so, a single flower among the rocks. The harshness of the stone makes the flower more precious.

And yet many of us do it without families, Nynaeve said. Without love, without passion beyond our own particular interests. So even while we try to guide the world, we separate ourselves from it.We risk arrogance, Egwene. We always assume we know best, but risk making ourselves unable to fathom the people we claim to serve.

If you ask the lion to protect from from wolves, you have only chosen to end in one belly instead of another.

Good morrow, High Lord Weiramon, and all you other High Lords and Ladies. I'm a gambler, a farmboy, and I'm here to take command of your bloody army! The bloody lord Dragon Reborn will be with us as soon as he flaming takes care of one bloody little matter!

Women, Mat declared as he rode Pips down the dusty, little-used road, are like mules. He frowned. Wait. No. Goats. Women are like goats. Except every flaming one thinks she's a horse instead, and a prize racing mare to boot. Do you understand me, Talmanes? Pure poetry, Mat, Talmanes said, tamping the tabac down into his pipe.

It's not evil, Rand. I know something evil when I smell it. This isn't evil, it's just incredibly stupid.

That man,' Elayne said, 'is never where he needs to be.' 'And yet,' Perrin said, 'he always arrives there eventually.

Death is light as a feather; duty, heavy as a mountain

Change what you can if it needs changing, but learn to live with what you can't change.

The way back will come but once. Be steadfast.

Sene sovya caba'donde ain dovienya

Anything can be a weapon, if the man or woman who holds it has the nerve and will to make it so.

The Light willing, we will see one another again, Rand said. He held out his hand to Perrin. Watch out for Mat. I'm honestly not sure what he's going to do, but I have a feeling it will be highly dangerous for all involved. Not like us, Perrin said, clasping Rand's forearm. You and I, we're much better at keeping to the safe paths.

I, Perrin Aybara, do pledge you my love, Faile Bashere, for as long as I live For as long as I live and after. What I possess in this world I give to you. A horse, an axe, a bow. A hammer. Not much to gift a bride. I give you life, my love. It's all I have. I will keep you and hold you, succor and tend you, protect and shelter you, for all the days of my life. I can't keep you; the only way I can protect you is to send you away. I am yours, always and forever.

Moiraine: It seems Ryne was wrong as well as a Darkfriend. You were better than he. Lan: He was better. But he thought I was finished, with only one arm. He never understood. You surrender after you're dead.

From the time an Aiel boy becomes a man he will not sing anything but battle chants, or their dirge for the slain. I have heard them singing over their dead, and over those they have killed. That song is one to make the stones weep.

Men, Thom murmured. Men who shook the pillars of heaven and rocked the world on its foundations. He shook his head. It doesn't matter. Forget about them. They are dust now.

The people seemed nearly ostentatious about minding their own business.

It has been quite a weight, hasn't it? Tam asked. What weight? Rand replied. That lost hand you've been carrying. Rand looked down at his stump. Yes. I believe it has been at that.