Robert Jordan Quotes

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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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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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On the heights, all paths are paved with daggers. -Old Seanchan saying

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I'm a gambler, a farmboy, and I'm here to take command of your bloody army!

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Storms rumble beyond the horizon, and the fires of heaven purge the earth. There is no salvation without destruction, no hope this side of death.

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Rand al'Thor is a mule-headed, stone-willed fool of a... a... a man!

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You could weave silk from pig bristles before you could make a man anything but a man.

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A man falling off a cliff to certain death will stretch out a hand even to his worst enemy.

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And she learned to guard her tongue better. I will wager she did. When we left them, she was still yelping and trying to get those scarlet puffers out of her dress. A scarlet puffer looks much like a red adder if your eye is dull like a wetlander's, but it is not poisonous. It does wriggle when confined, though.

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An arrow may not be a shocklance, yet it can still kill you.

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

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

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

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The Creator made women to please the eye and trouble the mind.

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You are a very lucky man, Dimir Faral. You are going to watch your friends hang. Then you'll be given a horse, and you will go tell Pedron Niall that one day I will hang him too for what happened here.

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The more bosom a woman displayed, the less she wanted you to look. Openly, at least.

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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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