Robert Jordan Quotes

I would burn the world and use my soul for tinder to hear her laugh again.

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

If you try putting a woman on a horse when she does not want to go, she may put a knife in your ribs.

Ravens and crows. Rats. Mists and clouds. Insects and corruption. Strange events and odd occurences. The ordinary twisted and strange. Wonders. The dead are beginning to walk and some see them. Others do not, but more and more, we all fear the night. These have been our days. They rain upon us beneath a dead sky, crushing us with their fury, until as one, we beg, "Let it begin."

For the young, death is an enemy they wish to try their strength against. For those of us a little older, she is an old friend, an old lover, but one we are not eager to meet again soon.

The wheel of a man's life. No mercy. No pity.

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

Men fight when they should run, and fools fight when they should run. But I had no need to say it twice.

It isn't swords or brawn we need now," Nynaeve said, "but brains. Men usually think with the hairs on their chests." She touched her chest absently, as if feeling for something through her coat. "Most of them do.

It is the enemy you underestimate who kills you.

By the look of you, Nynaeve, I could almost think you were angry, but I know you have such a sweet disposition people ask you to dabble your fingers in their tea.

The fox often offers the duck its pond.

I will see you tonight. Or I will see you dead.

I will never shame you. I will hate the man you choose because he is not me, and love him if he makes you smile. No woman deserves the sure knowledge of widow's black as her brideprice, you least of all.

On the heights, the paths are paved with daggers.