Robert Jordan Quotes

Sometimes, pain is all that lets you know you're alive.

You cannot please everyone. You cannot soothe everyone.

Dance well with a woman, and she’s halfway yours.

A man should never give promises in bed.

Most of those we call heroes only did what they had to do.

It was easier to trip a fool than to knock him down.

In the Borderlands, sheepherder, if a man has the raising of a child, that child is his, and none can say different.

You have to understand, child. Everyone wants someone in their life, someone who cares for them, someone they can care for. Even a queen.

[Aviendha] didn't trust change. It couldn't be spotted or stabbed; it was more silent than any scout, more deadly than any assassin. No, she'd never trust it, but she would accept it.

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.

On the heights, all paths are paved with daggers.

Only the dead could afford oblivion.

The more women there are about, the softer a wise man steps.

You read too much and understand too little.

It’s too late to change your mind after you’ve jumped off the cliff.