Robert Jordan
Two days' hunger made a fine sauce for anything.Collection: Two
At my age, if I make it up, it's still an old saying.Collection: Age
You break your neck, and I’ll see it mended just so I can break it again.Collection: Necks
You're welcome in my house when this is over. We'll open a cask of Master al'Vere's best brandy. We'll remember those who fell, and we'll tell our children how we stood when the clouds turned black and the world started to die. We'll tell them we stood shoulder to shoulder, and there was just no space for the Shadow to squeeze through.Collection: Children
It's not evil, Rand. I know something evil when I smell it. This isn't evil, it's just incredibly stupid.Collection: Stupid
The Wheel of Time and the wheel of a man's life turn alike without pity or mercy.Collection: Time
When a woman says she will obey you, of her own will, it is time to sleep lightly and watch your back.Collection: Time
As he did so, a wind rose up around him, around the man who had been called lord, Dragon Reborn, king, killer, lover and friend.Collection: Kings
The Amyrlin Seat has fallen," a nearby Aes Sedai cried amid the crystallized Sharans. "The Amyrlin Seat has fallen!Collection: Fallen
You are as eloquent as ever, Mat," Egwene said dryly. "Do you still have your pet fox?" "I do," Mat said. "He's snuggled up nice and warm.Collection: Nice
A Warder once told me Trollocs call the Aiel Waste 'the Dying Ground.' I mean to make them give that name to the Two Rivers.Collection: Mean
It has been quite a weight, hasn't it?" Tam asked. "What weight?" Rand replied. "That lost hand you've been carrying." Rand looked down at his stump. "Yes. I believe it has been at that.Collection: Believe
Maybe there would be a Tinker city someday, too. They would buy up all of the colored dye, and everyone else in the world would ave to wear brown.' -MatCollection: Cities
If any of these women had been here instead of Nynaeve, the world would have ended.Collection: World
I can rest when I'm dead.Collection: I Can
No. Please do not name either child after me, Elayne. Let them live their own lives. My shadow will be long enough as it is.' -RandCollection: Children
That man,' Elayne said, 'is never where he needs to be.' 'And yet,' Perrin said, 'he always arrives there eventually.Collection: Men
The Wheel weaves as the Wheel wills, Perrin. We've become what we needed to become."- Rand Al'ThorCollection: Als
And his paths shall be many, and who shall know his name, for he shall be beorn among us many times, in many guises, as he has been and ever will be, time without end. His coming shall be like the sharp edge of the plow, turning our lives in furrows form out of the places where we lie in our silence. The breaker of binds; the forger of chains. The maker of futures; the unshaper of destiny. -from Commentaries on the Prophecies of the Dragon, by Jurith Dorine, Right Hand to the Queen of Almoren, 742 AB, the Third AgeCollection: Queens
A young wolfhound must meet his first wolf someday, but if the wolf sees him as a puppy, if he acts the puppy, the wolf will surely kill him. The wolfhound must be a wolfhound in the wolf's eyes even more than in his own, if he is to survive.Collection: Eye
What woman could I hate enough to marry her to the Dragon Reborn?Collection: Hate
The nobles and the noble Houses maneuver for advantage. They do things they think will help them, or hurt and enemy, or both. Usually, it's all done in secrecy, or if not, they try to make it seem as if they're doing something other than what they are.Collection: Hurt
In the Borderlands, sheepherder, if a man has the raising of a child, that child is his, and none can say different.Collection: Children
There were many good years. Good decades, good centuries. We believed we were living in paradise. Perhaps that was our downfall. We wanted our lives to be perfect, so we ignored imperfections. Problems were magnified through inattention and war might have become inevitable if the Bore hadn't ever made.Collection: War
My mother always told me the best way to learn to deal with a man was to learn to ride a mule. She said they have about equal brains most of the time. Sometimes the mule is smarter.Collection: Mother
Tuon's eyes snapped open, and despite the dim light, she focused directly on Mat. She saw the knife in his hand, ready to throw. Then she looked over her shoulder.Collection: Eye
These?" Mat said, gesturing to his coat and shirt. "I really have no idea. They were just down there. I'm completely baffled." He had been very pleased to learn that Seanchan guards-for all their stoic expressions and too-straight backs-responded to bribes like other people.Collection: Expression
The Black Tower stands with the Lion of Andor." -LogainCollection: Black
He doesn't know what to make of me," Mat said softly. "How very uncommon. I can't think of anyone else who has reacted that way to you, Mat.Collection: Thinking
By the way, I saved Moiraine. Chew on that as you try to decide which of the two of us is winning." -MatCollection: Winning
Mat had tried to make her say she saw a hat floating around Mat's head. That would persuade Tuon to stop trying to get rid of his, would it not?Collection: Trying
Whatever can be done, can be undone.Collection: Done
The leaf lives its appointed time, and does not struggle against the wind that carries it away. The leaf does no harm, and finally falls to nourish new leaves. So it should be with all men and women.Collection: Struggle
Thank you," the young mother said again. "Thank you." "The Black Tower protects," Logain heard himself say. "Always." "I will send him to you to be tested when he is of age," the woman promised, holding her son. "I would have him join you, if he has the talent." The talent. Not the curse. The talent.Collection: Mother
Whether the bear beats the wolf or the wolf beats the bear, the rabbit always loses.Collection: Rabbits
The Wheel of Time turns, and Ages come and pass. What was, what will be, and what is, may yet fall under the Shadow.Collection: Fall
Dovie'andi se tovya sagain (It's time to roll the dice) - Matrim CauthonCollection: Dice
Women," Mat declared as he rode Pips down the dusty, little-used road, "are like mules." He frowned. "Wait. No. Goats. Women are like goats. Except every flaming one thinks she's a horse instead, and a prize racing mare to boot. Do you understand me, Talmanes?" "Pure poetry, Mat," Talmanes said, tamping the tabac down into his pipe.Collection: Horse
There is some delight in ale and wine And some in girls with ankles fine But my delight, yes always mine Is to dance with Jak O’ the Shadows We will toss the dice however they fall And snuggle the girls be they short or tall Then follow Lord Mat whenever he calls To dance with Jak O’ the Shadows.Collection: Girl
Any day you wake up, maybe you die.Collection: Wake Up
We rode on the winds of the rising storm, We ran to the sounds of the thunder. We danced among the lightning bolts, and tore the world asunder.Collection: Wind
May you shelter in the palm of the Creator's hand, and may the last embrace of the mother welcome you home.Collection: Mother
It is every man's right to choose when to Sheathe the Sword." --- Ingtar Shinowa ---Collection: Men
Storms rumble beyond the horizon, and the fires of heaven purge the earth. There is no salvation without destruction, no hope this side of death.Collection: Fire
What is already woven cannot be undone. It will not make the trees grow again for you to bring the building down on our heads.Collection: Tree
I'll never forget the first time Davram took me by the scruff of my neck and showed me he was the stronger of us. It was magnificent! If a woman is stronger than her husband, she comes to despise him. She has the choice of either tyrannizing him or else making herself less in order not to make him less. If the husband is strong enough, though, she can be as strong as she is, as strong as she can grow to be.Collection: Strong
A cat for a hat, or a hat for a cat. But nothing for nothing.Collection: Cat
You didn't listen to me," Lan whispered. One last lesson. The hardest. Demandred struck, and Lan saw his opening. Lan lunged forward placing Demandred's sword point against his own side and ramming himself forward onto it. "I did not come here to win," Lan whispered, smiling. "I came here to kill you. Death is lighter than a feather." Demandred's eyes opened wide, and he tried to pull back. Too late. Lan's sword took him straight though the throat.Collection: Eye