Robert Jordan Quotes

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

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

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

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

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A beautiful battle is one you don't have to fight.

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If you fell head first into a pigsty, you'd try to convince everybody you did it on purpose.

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The best way to avoid trouble is to make sure no one wants to trouble you.

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We can't go back, Mat. The Wheel has turned, for better or worse. And it will keep turning, as lights die and forests dim, storms call and skies break. Turn it will. The Wheel is not hope, and the Wheel does not care, the Wheel simply is. But so long as it turns, folk may hope, folk may care. For with light that fades, another will eventually grow, and each storm that rages must eventually die. As long as the Wheel turns. As long is it turns....

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You break your neck, and I'll see it mended just so I can break it again.

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There is one rule, above all others, for being a man. Whatever comes, face it on your feet.

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Mourn if you must. But mourn on the march to Tarmon Gai'don.

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Never kiss a girl whose brothers have knife scars.

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You can never know everything, and part of what you know is always wrong. Perhaps even the most important part. A portion of wisdom lies in knowing that. A portion of courage lies in going on anyway.

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To fight the raven you may make alliance with the serpent until the battle is done.

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Tuon's eyes snapped open, and despite the dim light, she focused directly on Mat. She saw the knife in his hand, ready to throw. Then she looked over her shoulder.

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He recalled countering Sammael's last move with something particulary nasty, but he could not pull the memory to the surface. Not balefire. "Mustn't use that. Threatens the fabric of the Pattern. Not even for Ilyena? I would burn the world and use my soul for tinder to hear her laugh again."'

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When you leap from a cliff, it is too late for anything but holding to your courage. And hoping there's a haywain at the bottom to land in.

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I am going to defeat them, Taim. All of them. They think they can tear everything down. It's always tearing down, never building up! I'm going to build something, leave something behind. Whatever happens, I will do that! I'll defeat the Dark One. And cleanse saidin, so men don't have to fear going mad, and the world doesn't have to fear men channeling. I'll...

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What happened with the pond? Surely the water is the point of the story.

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There is an old saying here in the Borderlands: "Better to have one woman on your side than ten men."

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

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Thus is our treaty written; thus is agreement made. Thought is the arrow of time; memory never fades. What was asked is given; the price is paid.

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We hear less, Davram Bashere, but perhaps sometimes we see more.

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[Aviendha] didn't trust change. It couldn't be spotted or stabbed; it was more silent than any scout, more deadly than any assassin. No, she'd never trust it, but she would accept it.

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There was a price to be paid for any decision he made. There was a price for who he was. Other people paid it.

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