Quotes About Legacy

If you ever meet a Malkieri," Noal said, "you tell him Jain Farstrider died clean.

Boy, the Creator never made the Houses. Some forget it, but go far enough back in any House, and you'll find a commoner who showed uncommon courage or kept his head and took charge when everybody else was running around like plucked geese. Mind you, another thing some like to forget is the road down can be just as sudden.

They don't even know what the song is; they claim they'll know it when they find it. They don't know how it's supposed to bring paradise, either, but they've been looking near to three thousand years, ever since the Breaking. I expect they'll be looking until the Wheel stops turning.

Blood of our blood mixed with the old blood, raised by an ancient blood not ours.

Mia dovienya nesodhin soende.

Tia mi aven Moridin isainde vadin (The grave is no bar to my call)

Twice and twice shall he be marked, twice to live, and twice to die. Once the heron, to set his path. Twice the heron, to name him true. Once the Dragon, for remembrance lost. Twice the Dragon, for the price he must pay.

He was a soldier. He was a shepherd. He was a beggar, and a king. He was a farmer, gleeman, sailor, carpenter. He was born, lived, and died Aiel. He died mad, he died rotting, he died of sickness, accident, age. He was executed, and multitudes cheered his death. He proclaimed himself the Dragon Reborn and flung his banner across the sky; he ran from the Power and hid; he lived and died never knowing.

La sangre alimenta a la sangre. La sangre llama a la sangre. La sangre es, fue y será por los siglos de los siglos.

You're welcome in my home when this is over. We'll open a cask or two of Master al'Vere's best brandy. We'll remember those who fell, and we'll tell our children how we stood when the clouds turned black and the world started to die. We'll tell them we stood shoulder to shoulder, and there was just no space for the Shadow to squeeze through.

Si ello no basta para refrenarte, te prometo que haré que maldigas el primer beso que intercambiaron tu padre y tu madre.

I just want my father to be proud of me.

The Wheel of Time turns, and Ages come and pass, leaving memories that become legend.

Royal line of Andor would be the key to defeating the Dark One in the Last Battle.

Death rides on my shoulder, Lews Therin muttered. Death walks in my footsteps. I am death.

Aan'allein morirá el día que sepa que habéis muerto.

Men who tried to stand on their forebears' shoulders rather than their own feet often found themselves shorter by a head.

The stone that never falls will fall to announce his coming. Of the blood, but not raised by the blood, he will come from Rhuidean at dawn, and tie you together with bonds you cannot break. He will take you back, and he will destroy you.

Well, heroes got patted on the head, then pushed out of the way until the next time a hero was needed, if they survived being a hero in the first place. Very often, heroes did not.

Jophil," Lan called. "Raise my banner high! Malkier lives on this day!

For as long as I live and after.

They said Janduin claimed this man looked like Shaiel, and he would not raise his spear when the man ran him through.

Callandor. Who wields me wields destiny. Take me, and begin the final journey.

His huge, ambitious Wheel of Time series helped redefine the genre." —George R. R. Martin, internationally bestselling author of A Game of Thrones