Quotes by Robert Jordan

“Bloody ashes, woman. This isn't a metaphor for anything! It's just boots.”

“The old blood is indeed still strong in the Two Rivers.”

“Browns seek knowledge, Blues meddle in causes, and Whites consider the questions of truth with implacable logic. We all do some of it all, of course. But to be Green means to stand ready. In the Tr...”

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

“When the Wolf King carries the hammer, thus are the final days known. When the fox marries the raven, and the trumpets of battle are blown.”

“What you practice too often, you use without thinking.”

“I've seen men die because they were sure that what should not happen,would not.-Robert Jordan(The eye of the world,Wheel of time)”

“Heroes in the stories never had to sleep in haystacks, or under hedges. But it was not easy to pretend, anymore, that he was a hero in a story.”

“Whether the bear beats the wolf or the wolf beats the bear, the rabbit always loses.”

“Do you know how to unite people behind you, Child Carridin? The quickest way? No? Loose a lion - a rabid lion - in the streets. And when panic grips the people, once it has turned their bowels to w...”

“Death is lighter than a feather. Duty, heavier than a mountain.”

“Larine had a bright future ahead of her, but she had to learn to obey the rules before she could begin learning which could be broken and when.”

“Bound by the Oath against lying, Aes Sedai [carry] the half-truth, the quarter-truth and the implication to arts.”

“In a cruel land, you either learned to laugh at cruelty or spent your life weeping.”

“Couldnt we camp down by the lakes? Nynaeve asked, patting her face with her kerchief. It must be cooler down by the water.Light, Mat said, Id just like to stick my head in one of them. I might neve...”

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

“One more dance along the razor's edge finished. Almost dead yesterday, maybe dead tomorrow, but alive, gloriously alive, today.”

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

“Small hopes can grow surprising fruit.”

“There is some delight in ale and wineAnd some in girls with ankles fineBut my delight, yes always mineIs to dance with Jak O’ the ShadowsWe will toss the dice however they fallAnd snuggle the girls...”