Robert Jordan Quotes

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He strains to hear a whisper who refuses to hear a shout.

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What you want is what you cannot have. What you cannot have is what you want.

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An Aiel, Hal, can hide in a fold in the ground you wouldn't even stumble over.

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Death comes for us all. We can only choose how to face it when it comes.

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I know how to take a man out of his miseries. Give him a swift kick, or else get him drunk and find him a pr-...

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Advice! Nobody tells us how to be men. We just are." "That is probably why you make such a bad job of it.- Perrin and Egwene

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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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Any fool knows men and women think differently at times, but the biggest difference is this. Men forget, but never forgive; women forgive, but never forget.

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Men always seem to refuse to admit they are sick until they're sick enough to make twice as much work for women. Then they claim they're well too soon, with the same result.

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"A bloody hero. Thom, if I ever look like acting the hero again, you kick me."
"And what would you have done differently?"
"Just kick me!"

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It is better to guide people than try to hammer them into a line.

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I thought you saidar-ed it.
At the end of time, when the many become one, the last storm shall gather its angry winds to destroy a land already dying. And at its center, the blind man shall stand upon his own grave. There he shall see again, and weep for what has been wrought.

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The road ahead of you is long, dark, and, I very much fear, bloodstained. I also very much fear that you will take us all down that road. But you must live to reach the end of it.

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There were many good years. Good decades, good centuries. We believed we were living in paradise. Perhaps that was our downfall. We wanted our lives to be perfect, so we ignored imperfections. Problems were magnified through inattention and war might have become inevitable if the Bore hadn't ever made.

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A young wolfhound must meet his first wolf someday, but if the wolf sees him as a puppy, if he acts the puppy, the wolf will surely kill him. The wolfhound must be a wolfhound in the wolf's eyes even more than in his own, if he is to survive.

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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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