Quotes from Robert Jordan

He doesn't know what to make of me, Mat said softly. How very uncommon. I can't think of anyone else who has reacted that way to you, Mat.

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

We are alike in many ways, you and I. There is darkness in us. Darkness, pain, death. They radiate from us. If ever you love a woman, Rand, leave her and let her find another. It will be the best gift you can give her.

Victory settles a lot of arguments in most men's heads.

The sweetness of victory and the bitterness of defeat are alike a knife of dreams. -From Fog and Steel by Madoc Comadrin

He did not think anyone needed to look after Nynaeve; around Nynaeve, to his mind, other people needed someone to look after them.

Kill a man who needs killing, and sometimes others pay for it. The question is, was it worth doing it anyway? There's always a balance, you know. Good and evil. Light and Shadow. We would not be human if there wasn't a balance.

Bloody ashes, woman. This isn't a metaphor for anything! It's just boots.

Sometimes six and six make a dozen, and sometimes they make a mess

Taren Ferry folk had a reputation for slyness and trickery. If you shook hands with a Taren Ferry man, people said, you counted your fingers afterwards.

Well, I can admire stubbornness in a man. There is little to a man who's too easily biddable.

i can't understand her well son, you might as well try to understand the sun

For the young, death is an enemy they wish to try their strength against. For those of us a little older, she is an old friend, an old lover, but one we are not eager to meet again soon.

Taking responsibility takes all the joy out of life, and drains a man to dust.

Sandar came to stand beside him, frowning down at the crumpled High Lord. He does not look so mighty lying there, he said wonderingly. He does not look so much greater than me.

Perrin, my father says a general can take care of the living or weep for the dead, but he cannot do both.

She was a soldier, a warrior in her way as much as I. This could have happened two hundred times these past twenty years. She knew it, and so did I. It was a good day to die.

Till Shade is gone, till water is gone, into the Shadow with teeth bared, screaming defiance with the last breath, to spit in Sightblinder's eye on the Last Day. By my honor and the Light, my life will be a dagger for Sightblinder's heart. Until the Last Day, To Shayol Ghul itself.

To stand against the Shadow so long as iron is hard and stone abides. To defend the Malkieri while one drop of blood remains. To avenge what cannot be defended.

If any of these women had been here instead of Nynaeve, the world would have ended.

Let the Dragon ride again on the winds of time.

Death is lighter than a feather, duty heavier than a mountain. So many duties. Egwene.

Your body is only clothing. Your flesh will wither, but you are your heart and mind, and they do not change except to grow stronger.

A spoonful of hope and a cup of despair