Robert Jordan Quotes

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In the Borderlands, sheepherder, if a man has the raising of a child, that child is his, and none can say different.

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The only man completely at peace is a man without a navel.

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But she was a fount of Power, drawn from deep within the fluted rod in her hands, channeled through a group of novices and Accepted hiding in the room behind, bound to her in circle. Egwene was part of the fires that burned in the Tower, bloodying the sky with their flames, painting the air with their smoke. She almost seemed not a being of flesh, but one of pure Power, sending judgment to those who had dared bring war to the Tower itself. Blasts of lightning stormed from the sky, the clouds churning above. Fire sprouted from her hands.

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Almost dead yesterday, maybe dead tomorrow, but alive, gloriously alive, today. — Mat Cauthon

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Before I knew what was happening, I had a fistful of spears around my neck like a collar. I could have shaved myself with one sneeze.

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May you shelter in the palm of the Creator's hand, and may the last embrace of the mother welcome you home.

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Waiting turns men into bears in a barn, and women into cats in a sack.

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I trust you like a brother. Until the day you betray me. You have a parole for what you've done, in return for your teaching, and a better bargain than you deserve, but the day you turn against me, I will tear it up and bury it with you.

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What is too absurd to believe is believed because it is too absurd to be a lie.

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Lan told me once that Malkier lives so long as one man wears the hadori in pledge that he will fight the Shadow, so long as one woman wears the ki'sain in pledge that she will send her sons to fight the shadow. I wear the ki'sain, Master Aldragoran. My husband wears the hadori. So do you. Will Lan Mandragoran ride to the last battle alone?

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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.

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All was shattered, and all but memory lost, and one memory above all others, of him who brought the Shadow and the Breaking of the World. And him they named Dragon.

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I have never known anyone else," Egwene said to him, "who will work so hard to avoid hard work, Matrim Cauthon.

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Not thinking about a thorn doesn't make it hurt your foot less.

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He came like the wind, like the wind touched everything, and like the wind was gone. -from The Dragon Reborn. By Loial, son of Arent son of Halan, the Fourth Age.

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Caution once forgotten could be forgotten once too often.

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"What a strange thing to say," Egwene said. "Why do they use it like that? Peace."
"When you have never known a thing except to dream," Lan replied, heeling Mandarb forward, "it becomes more than a talisman."

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When a woman plays the fool, look for the man. That was one of Lini's favorites. Another was, Kittens tangle your yarn, men tangle your wits, and it's simple as breathing for both.

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We are alike in many ways, you and I. There is a 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.

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In wars, boy, fools kill other fools for foolish causes.

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Young men and fools sometimes bear pain they do not have to as a badge of their pride. Or their foolishness.

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I don't know. They could put up a warning sign or something. Hello. Welcome to Hindstrap. We will murder you in the night and eat your bloody face if you stay past sunset. Try the pies. Martna Maily makes them fresh daily.

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I have made up my mind, young Tallanvor, and I do not expect you to question me when I have done so.

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Bring your lightnings, Aes Sedai. I will dance with them.

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You cannot please everyone. You cannot soothe everyone.

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The leaf lives its appointed time, and does not struggle against the wind that carries it away. The leaf does no harm, and finally falls to nourish new leaves. So it should be with all men. And women.

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The more tragic things get, the more I feel like laughing.

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All men dream. But I know dreams for dreams. This is reality.

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Dovie'andi se tovya sagain (It's time to roll the dice) - Matrim Cauthon

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I am the Dragon Reborn. Denying won't change it. Wishing won't change it. I'm not the man you knew back in Emond's Field. Do you understand now? Do you?

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