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“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

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

“If you must mount the gallows, give a jest to the crowd, a coin the hangman, and make the drop with a smile on your lips.”
― Robert Jordan

“You have made a place in my heart where I thought there was no room for anything else. You have made flowers grow where I cultivated dust and stones. Remember this, on this journey you insist on making. If you die, I will not survive you long.”
― Robert Jordan, The Shadow Rising

“The fact that the price must be paid is proof it is worth paying.”
― Robert Jordan, The Eye of the World

“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

“Time to toss the dice”
― robert jordan

“The wheel weaves as the wheel wills”
― Robert Jordan, The Wheel of Time: Boxed Set #3

“Women often seemed to leave things unsaid, and in his limited experience it was what they did not say that proved the most trouble.”
― Robert Jordan, The Great Hunt

“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.”
― Robert Jordan, The Dragon Reborn

“But men often mistake killing and revenge for justice. They seldom have the stomach for justice.”
― Robert Jordan

“Bloody flaming ashes”
― Robert Jordan

“Advice!Nobody tells us how to be men. We just are." "That is probably why you make such a bad job of it.- Perrin and Egwene”
― Robert Jordan, The Eye of the World

“There is one rule, above all others, for being a man. Whatever comes, face it on your feet.”
― Robert Jordan, The Great Hunt

“Read and find out.”
― Robert Jordan

“May you shelter in the palm of the Creator's hand, and may the last embrace of the mother welcome you home.”
― Robert Jordan

“Take what you can have. Rejoice in what you can save, and do not mourn your loses for too long.”
― Robert Jordan

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

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

“Sometimes, pain is all that lets you know you're alive.”
― Robert Jordan, Crossroads of Twilight

“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.”
― Robert Jordan

“The Wheel of Time turns, and Ages come and pass. What was, what will be, and what is, may yet fall under the Shadow.”
― Robert Jordan, The Eye of the World

“Burn you, Nerim, that's a leg not a bloody side of beef!"
"As my lord says," Nerim murmured. "My lord's leg is not a side of beef. Thank you, my lord, for instructing me.”
― Robert Jordan, Lord of Chaos

“Death comes to us all; we can only choose how to face it when it comes.”
― Robert Jordan, The Dragon Reborn

“If your enemy offers you two targets, strike at a third.”
― Robert Jordan, Crossroads of Twilight

“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.”
― Robert Jordan, Knife of Dreams

“I'm a gambler, a farmboy, and I'm here to take command of your bloody army!

--Mat Cauthon”
― Robert Jordan, The Fires of Heaven

“Kneel and swear to the Lord Dragon, or you will be knelt.”
― Robert Jordan, Lord of Chaos

“Do not trouble trouble till trouble troubles you.”
― Robert Jordan, The Shadow Rising

“Reading is like breathing. If you take it away, first I become antsy, then violent.”
― Robert Jordan