Robert Jordan Quotes

Let the lord of chaos rule.

A jealous wife is like a hornets’ nest in your mattress.

The boy was dead eager, which could soon lead to plain dead.

Young men and fools sometimes bear pain they do not have to as a badge of their pride. Or their foolishness.

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

On the heights, the paths are paved with daggers.

You always had to pay the butcher.

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

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.

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

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?

Trust is as slippery as a basket of eels sometimes.

There's no time for winking at the men when you're busy bailing the boat.

Always plan for the worst, child; that way, all your surprises will be pleasant ones.

We are dead men. Dead men should be quiet in their graves, but they never are.