Robert Jordan Quotes

Perrin ran a hand through his hair. The more he found out about kings, the less he liked them.

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

How was he to cause war, as the prophecies say he must? How was he to break the nations and bind them to him? How could he 'slay his people with the sword of peace' or 'bind the nine moons to serve him' if he was locked away? Do the prophecies say that he will be 'unfettered'? Do they not speak of the 'chaos of his passing'? How can anything pass at all if he is kept in chains?

A man without trust might as well be dead.

Only the dead could afford oblivion.

There’s no point letting honey age too long before you eat it.

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

I killed the whole world, and you can too, if you try hard.

Whatever can be done, can be undone.

Love is an odd thing. As odd a thing as there is.

Any day you wake up, maybe you die.

Weep for what is lost forever.

As well you try to understand the sun, Perrin. It simply is, and it is not to be understood. You cannot live without it, but it exacts a price. So with women.

Honor? Maybe they're letting him sleep on silk, but a prisoner is still a prisoner.

The end is near," Moridin said. "The Wheel has groaned its final rotation, the clock has lost its spring, the serpent heaves its final gasps. He must know pain of heart. He must know frustration, and he must know anguish. Bring these to him. And you will be rewarded.