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Quotes About Adventure

He let them be heroes.
~ Robert Jordan
Rand, maybe that's the answer they give to everybody. Those snake people, I mean. Got to Rhuidean. Maybe we don't have to be here at all.' He did not believe it, but with that fog staring him in the face. ... Rand turned his head to look at him, not speaking. Finally he said, 'They never mentioned Rhuidean to me, Mat.' 'Oh, burn me,' he muttered.
~ Robert Jordan
Light, why did the Pattern have to catch me up with you? Why couldn't I have something safe and simple, like being shipwrecked with no food and a dozen hungry Aielmen?
~ Robert Jordan
Stay and get married, or travel the Ways. Loial grimaced ruefully. Life is very unsettling with ta'veren for friends.
~ Robert Jordan
Egwene didn't notice someone new entering the tent. Rand did, however, and he spun as the flaps parted and let in light. He frowned at the interloper. His frown died as soon as he saw the person who entered. Moiraine.
~ Robert Jordan
The wind blew southwards, through knotted forests, over shimmering plains and toward lands unexplored. This wind, it was not the ending. There are no endings, and never will be endings, to the turning of the Wheel of Time. But it was an ending.
~ Robert Jordan
A girl or a fight, pouting lips or a flashing blade. Whichever dance you're dancing at the moment is always the most fun. Wouldn't you say?
~ Robert Jordan
A man would know he had to walk through fire and tame a lioness with his bare hands every time he approached you. Every day an adventure, and every night . . .
~ Robert Jordan
You come back here, or I'll hero you! I'll thump you so you think you've had an adventure!
~ Robert Jordan
There must be a difference in what you saw, it seemed to him, depending on whether you sought adventure or had it forced on you.
~ Robert Jordan
Well perhaps you humans do have short lives but you do so much with them. Always jumping around, always so hasty and you have the whole world to do it in. - Loial
~ Robert Jordan
but it be the strangeness you see that pulls you to the next horizon.
~ Robert Jordan
What was the good of acting out fake stories? Why not go live a few stories of your own?
~ Robert Jordan
We'll toss the dice however they fall, And snuggle the girls be they short or tall, Then follow young Mat whenever he calls, To dance with Jak o' the Shadows.
~ Robert Jordan
If you ever meet a Malkieri," Noal said, "you tell him Jain Farstrider died clean." "I will, Jain," Mat said. "May the light hold you." Noal
~ Robert Jordan
We are going to tickle some Aes Sedai under the chin, rescue a mule, and put a snip-nosed girl on the Lion Throne. Oh, yes. That's Aviendha. Don't look at her crosswise, or she'll try to cut your throat and probably slit her own by mistake.
~ Robert Jordan
WE WILL MEET AGAIN ON TOMAN HEAD. IT IS NEVER OVER, AL'THOR.
~ Robert Jordan
Sa souvraya niende misain ye.
~ Robert Jordan
Strangers and a gleeman, fireworks and a peddler. It was going to be the best Bel Tine ever.
~ Robert Jordan
The winds of destiny are blowing, Siuan, and we must ride them where they take us.
~ Robert Jordan
Why, to see, Loial said as if it were the most obvious thing in the world. I read the books, all the travelers' accounts, and it began to burn in me that I had to see, not just read.
~ Robert Jordan
We rode on the winds of the rising storm, We ran to the sounds of the thunder. We danced among the lightning bolts, and tore the world asunder. —
~ Robert Jordan
Its time to role the dice.
~ Robert Jordan
and if you ever go back, your village'll no be big enough to hold you.
~ Robert Jordan