Quotes from Robert Jordan

You wish me to tell you all of my secrets? I am grateful, but I am not in love.

Why, that's like being told to go up in the hills to find lions, only you do not know whether there are any lions, but if there are, they may be hunting you, and they may be disguised as bushes. Oh, and if you find any lions, try not to let them eat you before you can tell where they are. -Elayne

The wheel of time turns and ages come and go, leaving memories that become legend. Legend fades to myth, and even myth is long forgotten when the age tha gave it birth returns again. In the third age, an age of prophecy the world and time themselves hang in the balance. What was, what will be, and what is, may yet fall under shadow.

There's an old saying in the Two Rivers Rand said dryly. 'The louder a man tells you he's honest, the harder you must hold on to your purse.' Another said, The fox often offers to give the duck its pond.

Some said Delana was sucessful as a mediator because both sides would agree just to make her stop staring at them.

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

No. Please do not name either child after me, Elayne. Let them live their own lives. My shadow will be long enough as it is.' -Rand

The Black Tower stands with the Lion of Andor. -Logain

Great captains earned their reputation not just for laying brilliant plans, but for still being able to find victory after those plans began to fall apart.

The end is near, Moridin said. The Wheel has groaned its final rotation, the clock has lost its spring, the serpent heaves its final gasps.

When the Wolf King carries the hammer, thus are the final days known. When the fox marries the raven, and the trumpets of battle are blown.

And the quickest to harm a stranger are the soonest to think a stranger will harm them.

Maybe there would be a Tinker city someday, too. They would buy up all of the colored dye, and everyone else in the world would ave to wear brown.' -Mat

In war, you say a prayer for your dead and ride on, because there is always another fight over the next horizon. —al'Lan Mandragoran

You will serve the Cyrstal Throne well. It would be a shame to see you assassinated too early. I will make certain that the first I send after you are newly trained, so that you may stop them with ease. -General Galgan to Mat

I surrender to it, and by surrendering, I control it.

Why didn't you guess this would happen? Elayne demanded. He looked at her, expressionless. One side of his mouth twitched up, then he pulled his hat down, shading his eyepatch. Light, Elayne said. You knew. You spent this whole week planning with us, and you knew the entire time you'd throw it out with the dishwater.

How did you ever come to like a common blacksmith? The word is 'love', Perrin Aybara.

You ride to battle? Karede asked. I was thinking more of a saunter, Mat said. He shook his head. I need a feel for what Demandred is doing...I'm going out there, Karede, and putting you fellows between me and the Trollocs sounds delightful. Are you coming?

Hammer the iron that lies on your anvil instead of daydreaming about working silver.

What can't be changed must be endured.

You can't give up. You can't ever give up. If you give up you might as well be dead.

The more power a man held, the more likely he was to be an idiot with it.

I am Rand al'Thor!" he called, so his voice rang through the chamber. "I am the Dragon Reborn!