The Great Hunt Quotes

“If you have a sword, and the Aielman has his bare hands, it is an even fight. If you're good.”
― Robert Jordan

“He had gone right through fear and come out the other side in some place cold. Anger was all that kept him warm. They could gentle him, or burn him to a crisp where he stood, and he no longer cared.”
― Robert Jordan

“I cannot tell you now;
When the wind's drive and whirl
Blow me along no longer,
And the wind's a whisper at last -
Maybe I'll tell you then
some other time.”
― Carl Sandburg, Chicago Poems

“When the rose’s flash to the sunset
Reels to the wrack and the twist,
And the rose is a red bygone,
When the face I love is going
And the gate to the end shall clang,
And it’s no use to beckon or say, “So long”—
Maybe I’ll tell you then—
some other time.”
― Carl Sandburg, The Complete Poems

“I'd run. But maybe you can't run. Think of that, too.' His yellow eyes seemed to look inward, and he sounded tired. 'Sometimes you can't run.”
― Robert Jordan

“...and what we called evil but ten years ago seems almost caprice compared with what is now done every day.”
― Robert Jordan, The Great Hunt

“You humans never take time for thought. Only decisions reached in calm can be sure.”
― Robert Jordan, The Great Hunt

“The Pattern has a great deal to answer for. I don't know that any man is worth this.”
― Robert Jordan, The Great Hunt