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“Read and find out.”
― Robert Jordan

“We are always more afraid than we wish to be, but we can always be braver than we expect.”
― Robert Jordan, Lord of Chaos

“The oak fought the wind and was broken, the willow bent when it must and survived.”
― Robert Jordan, The Fires of Heaven

“If you don't know everything, you must go on with what you do know.”
― Robert Jordan, A Crown of Swords

“Any fool knows men and women think differently at times, but the biggest difference is this. Men forget, but never forgive; women forgive, but never forget.”
― Robert Jordan

“The Creator made women to please the eye, and to boggle the mind.”
― Robert Jordan, The Wheel of Time: Boxed Set

“Almost dead yesterday, maybe dead tomorrow, but alive, gloriously alive, today.”
― Robert Jordan

“A man who trusts everyone is a fool and a man who trusts no one is a fool. We are all fools if we live long enough.”
― Robert Jordan, Winter's Heart

“In wars, boy, fools kill other fools for foolish causes”
― Robert Jordan, To the Blight

“The men in my family are strong because the women in my family kill and eat the weak ones.”
― Robert Jordan

“Surprising what you can dig out of books if you read long enough, isn't it?”
― Robert Jordan

“Duty is heavy as a mountain, death is light as a feather.”
― Robert Jordan

“Run when you have to, fight when you must, rest when you can.”
― Robert Jordan, The Eye of the World

“Better to have one woman on your side than ten men.”
― Robert Jordan, The Great Hunt

“Til shade is gone,
til water is gone
Into the shadow with teeth bared
Screaming defiance with the last breath
To spit in Sightblinder’s eye on the Last Day.”
― Robert Jordan, The Dragon Reborn

“Hardness shatters; strength endures.”
― Robert Jordan

“A beautiful battle is one you don't have to fight”
― Robert Jordan, Knife of Dreams

“The only way was forward, whatever lay at the end.”
― Robert Jordan, New Spring

“A wise ruler takes advice, but should never be seen to take it. Let them think you know more than you do. It will not harm them, and it will help you.”
― Robert Jordan, The Shadow Rising

“If the world is ending, a woman will want to fix her hair. If the world's ending, a woman will take the time to tell a man something he's done wrong. -Matrim Cauthon”
― Robert Jordan, The Wheel of time series by Robert Jordan

“The Golden Crane flies for Tarmon Gai'don!”
― Robert Jordan, Knife of Dreams

“I grew up around strong women; weak men were pickled and salted. The women wouldn't waste time raising a weak boy.”
― Robert Jordan