Robert Jordan Quotes

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Lan shook his head slightly. "He was better. But he thought I was finished, with only one arm. He never understood. You surrender after you're dead."

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An Aes Sedai never lies, but the truth she speaks, may not be the truth you think you hear.

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"The Amyrlin understands the most complex of creeds and debates," Egwene said, quoting from memory. "Yet in the end, she is the servant of all, even the lowest of laborers."

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Life is a dream from which we all must wake before we can dream again.

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It seems to me that kings — and queens — can be fools when they forget what they are and act like who they are, but they're worse when they only remember what they are and forget who.

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Sevanna wants my head, Taim. Apparently, she thought she could take it today. I mean to let her know her mistake. I told you to make weapons, Taim. Show me just how deadly they are. Disperse the Shaido. Break them.

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If a woman does need a hero, she needs him today, not tomorrow.

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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

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Humankind is made for uncertainty, struggle, choice and change.

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Rand is the one who is supposed to go mad. And here I am, talking to an axe!

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Ravens and crows. Rats. Mists and clouds. Insects and corruption. Strange events and odd occurences The ordinary twisted and strange. Wonders. The dead are beginning to walk and some see them. Others do not, but more and more, we all fear the night. These have been our days. They rain upon us beneath a dead sky, crushing us with their fury, until as one, we beg, "Let it begin."

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Surprising what you can dig out of books if you read long enough, isn't it?

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Often you don't know whether a woman is friend, enemy or lover until it is too late. Sometimes, she is all three.

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Pride fills me. I am sick with the pride that destroyed me.

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I came to bloody rescue you. Burn me if I expected to be greeted as if I had come to steal a pie.

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Break the seals. Break the seals, and end it. Let me die forever.

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Masema. That had been his name. He'd earned his sword on his fifteenth birthday. His father had been so proud. It's over, then, he thought, unable to keep his eyes open. He closed them, falling as if through an endless void. Did I do well, Father, or did I fail?

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The fact that the price must be paid is proof it is worth paying.

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A man who trusts everyone is a fool, and a man who trusts no one is a fool. We are all fools, if we live long enough.

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He is born again! I feel him! The Dragon takes his first breath on the slope of Dragonmount! He is coming! He is coming! Light help us! Light help the world! He lies in the snow and cries like the thunder! He burns like the sun!

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

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Let most men have a finger, and they will have the whole hand before you know. Let a clan chief have a finger, and he will have the entire arm.

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Teach him how you will, a pig will never play the flute.

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The people seemed nearly ostentatious about minding their own business.

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I always get what I want in the end. And I think I want... ornamental ironwork. For the windows of my bedchamber.

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Absently he fingered the neat slice across the shoulder of his coat. Good shooting, at a moving target only half seen through the trees. He could have admired it more had he not been the target.

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For the young, death is an enemy they wish to try their strength against. For those of us a little older, she is an old friend, an old lover, but one we are not eager to meet again soon.

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I always thought the stole weighed about as much as three good men. The Amyrlin has few easy decisions to make, and fewer where she can be sure. Do what you must, and pay the price if you're wrong. Sometimes if you are right, too.

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Weep for Manetheren. Weep for what is lost forever.

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Always plan for the worst, that way all your surprises will be pleasant ones.

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