Robert Jordan Quotes

Take life as it comes. Run when you have to, fight when you must, rest when you can.

When you leap from a cliff, it is too late for anything but holding to your courage. And hoping there's a haywain at the bottom to land in.

Courage to strengthen, fire to blind, music to daze, iron to bind.

A man must know when to retreat from a woman, but a wise man knows that sometimes he must stand and face her.

We all have our limits. And we set them further out than we have any right.

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.

If you fell head first into a pigsty, you'd try to convince everybody you did it on purpose.

Nimble finger and nimble wits will take you a good deal further than a sword and muscles. Sharp eyes help as well, but fortunately, I have these things.

You'll use it [Perrin's axe], boy, and as long as you hate using it, you would use it more wisely than most men would. Wait. If ever you don't hate it any longer, then will be the time to throw it as far as you can and run the other way.

By the Creator at the moment of creation. May we shelter safe beneath the Light, in the Creator’s hand.

To fight the raven you may make alliance with the serpent until the battle is done.

I will use anybody I must. You said it yourself; I am who I am. And I'm using myself up, Perrin, because I have to. Just like I'll use anybody I have to. We don't have a choice anymore. Not me, not you, not anybody!

Should and would build no bridges.

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.

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