Quotes from The Great Hunt

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

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

“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, quote from The Great Hunt

“Always something new, always something I didn't expect, and sometimes it isn't horrible.”
― Robert Jordan, quote from The Great Hunt

“Some men […] choose to seek greatness, while others are forced to it. It is always better to choose than to be forced.
A man who is forced is never completely his own master. He must dance on the strings of those who forced him.”
― Robert Jordan, quote from The Great Hunt

“I do not like odd things until I can understand them.”
― Robert Jordan, quote from The Great Hunt

“It is every man's right to choose when to Sheathe the Sword."
--- Ingtar Shinowa ---”
― Robert Jordan, quote from The Great Hunt

“There was a wild light in his eyes. "Bring your lightnings, Aes Sedai. I will dance with them.”
― Robert Jordan, quote from The Great Hunt

“A pig painted gold is still a pig.”
― Robert Jordan, quote from The Great Hunt

“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.”
― Robert Jordan, quote from The Great Hunt

“The people seemed nearly ostentatious about minding their own business.”
― Robert Jordan, quote from The Great Hunt

“And it shall come to pass that what man made shall be shattered, and the Shadow shall lie across the Pattern of Age, and the Dark One shall once more lay his hand upon the world of man. Women shall weep and men quail as the nations of the earth are rent like rotting cloth. Neither shall anything stand nor abide...
Yet one shall be born to face the Shadow, born once more as he was born before and shall be born again, time without end. The Dragon shall be Reborn, and there shall be wailing and gnashing of teeth at his rebirth. In sackcloth and ashes shall he clothe the people, and he shall break the world again by his coming, tearing apart all ties that bind. Like the unfettered dawn shall he blind us, and burns us, yet shall the Dragon Reborn confront the Shadow at the Last battle, and his blood shall give us the Light. Let tears flow, O ye people of the world. Weep for your salvation.

-from The Karaethon Cycle: The Prophecies of the Dragon, as translated by Ellaine Marise'idin Alshinn, Chief Librarian at the Court of Arafel, in the Year of Grace 231 of the New Era, the Third Age”
― Robert Jordan, quote from The Great Hunt

“He was a soldier. He was a shepherd. He was a beggar, and a king. He was a farmer, gleeman, sailor, carpenter. He was born, lived, and died Aiel. He died mad, he died rotting, he died of sickness, accident, age. He was executed, and multitudes cheered his death. He proclaimed himself the Dragon Reborn and flung his banner across the sky; he ran from the Power and hid; he lived and died never knowing. He held off the madness and the sickness for years; he succumbed between two winters. Sometimes Moiraine came and took him away from the Two Rivers, alone or with those of his friends who had survived Winternight; sometimes she did not. Sometimes other Aes Sedai came for him. Sometimes Red Ajah. Egwene married him; Egwene, stern-faced in stole of Amyrlin Seat, led Aes Sedai who gentled him; Egwene, with tears in her eyes, plunged a dagger into his heart, and he thanked her as he died. He loved other women, married other women. Elayne, and Min, and a fair-haired farmer's daughter met on the road to Caemlyn, and women he had never seen before he lived those lives. A hundred lives. More. So many he could not count them. And at the end of every life, as he lay dying, as he drew his final breath, a voice whispered in his ear. I have won again, Lews Therin. Flicker.”
― Robert Jordan, quote from The Great Hunt

“Knowing serves no real purpose, but then, neither does not knowing. Myself, I always prefer knowing to not.”
― Robert Jordan, quote from The Great Hunt

“Well, I can admire stubbornness in a man. There is little to a man who's too easily biddable.”
― Robert Jordan, quote from The Great Hunt

“The Light shine on you, and the Creator shelter you. The last embrace of the mother welcome you home.”
― Robert Jordan, quote from The Great Hunt

“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.”
― Robert Jordan, quote from The Great Hunt

“Light, why did the Pattern have to catch me up with you? Why couldn’t I have something safe and simple, like being shipwrecked with no food and a dozen hungry Aielmen?”
― Robert Jordan, quote from The Great Hunt

“Death is lighter than a feather, duty heavier than a mountain. So many duties. Egwene.”
― Robert Jordan, quote from The Great Hunt

“I'm only an old gleeeman,' he said from the door. 'Who could I possibly be dangerous to?”
― Robert Jordan, quote from The Great Hunt

“Lord Rand," Nynaeve snorted. "That young man is growing too big for his breeches. When I get my hand on him, I'll lord him.”
― Robert Jordan, quote from The Great Hunt

“Lan said the time to sound most sure was when you were least certain.”
― Robert Jordan, quote from The Great Hunt

“Soon comes the day all shall be free. Even you, and even me. Soon comes the day all shall die. Surely you, but never I.
Padan Fain”
― Robert Jordan, quote from The Great Hunt

“Elayne", she said softly as they resumed their climb, "if we are caught, I swear that before they kill us, or do whatever they do, I will beg them on bended knees to let me stripe you from top to bottom with the stoutest switch I can find!”
― Robert Jordan, quote from The Great Hunt

“Stay and get married, or travel the Ways." Loial grimaced ruefully. "Life is very unsettling with ta'veren for friends.”
― Robert Jordan, quote from The Great Hunt

“When we Shienarans ride, every man knows who is next in line if the man in command falls. A chain unbroken right down to the last man left, even if he's nothing but a horseholder. That way, you see, even if he is the last man, he is not just a straggler running and trying to stay alive. He has the command,and duty calls him to do what must be done. If I go to the last embrace of the mother, the duty is yours. You will find the Horn, and you will take it where it belongs. You will.”
― Robert Jordan, quote from The Great Hunt

“Well, the sword that could not be broken was shattered in the end, sheepherder, but it fought the Shadow to the last. There is one rule, above all others, for being a man.”
― Robert Jordan, quote from The Great Hunt

“Those intricate curves and patterns your people create are beyond human eyes and hands to make. Perhaps we wished to avoid a poor imitation that would only have been an ever-present reminder to us of what we had lost. There is a different beauty in simplicity, in a single line placed just so, a single flower among the rocks. The harshness of the stone makes the flower more precious. We try not to dwell too much on what is gone. The strongest heart will break under that strain.”
― Robert Jordan, quote from The Great Hunt

“Death is lighter than a feather, duty heavier than a mountain. So many duties.”
― Robert Jordan, quote from The Great Hunt

“WE WILL MEET AGAIN ON TOMAN HEAD. IT IS NEVER OVER, AL’THOR.”
― Robert Jordan, quote from The Great Hunt

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