“The Wheel of Time turns, and Ages come and pass, leaving memories that become legend. Legend fades to myth, and even myth is long forgotten when the Age that gave it birth comes again. In one Age, called the Third Age by some, an Age yet to come, an Age long past, a wind rose above the great mountainous island of Tremalking. The wind was not the beginning. There are neither beginnings nor endings to the Wheel of Time. But it was a beginning.”
― Robert Jordan, quote from The Path of Daggers
“On the heights, all paths are paved with daggers.”
― Robert Jordan, quote from The Path of Daggers
“Sometimes six and six make a dozen, and sometimes they make a mess”
― Robert Jordan, quote from The Path of Daggers
“Do you believe a man must be hard?” she asked. She was taking a chance. “Or strong?” By her tone, she left no doubt she saw a difference.
Again Sorilea touched the tray; the smallest of smiles might have quirked her lips for an instant. Or not. “Most men see the two as one and the same, Cadsuane Melaidhrin. Strong endures; hard shatters.”
Cadsuane drew breath. A chance she would have scoured anyone else for taking. But she was not anyone else, and sometimes chances had to be taken. “The boy confuses them,” she said. “He needs to be strong, and makes himself harder. Too hard, already, and he will not stop until he is stopped. He has forgotten how to laugh except in bitterness; there are no tears left in him. Unless he finds laughter and tears again, the world faces disaster. He must learn that even the Dragon Reborn is flesh. If he goes to Tarmon Gai’don as he is, even his victory may be as dark as his defeat.”
― Robert Jordan, quote from The Path of Daggers
“Who would sup with the mighty must climb the path of daggers.
-Anonymous notation found inked in the margin of a manuscript history (believed to date to the time of Arthur Hawkwing) of the last days of the Tovan Conclaves”
― Robert Jordan, quote from The Path of Daggers
“Nothing makes Semirhage weep. She gives tears to others, but she has none herself.”
― Robert Jordan, quote from The Path of Daggers
“Facing them (men) with knives and spears was much easier than loving them, much easier.”
― Robert Jordan, quote from The Path of Daggers
“How do you know when a woman wants to kill you?” Rand mused. “When she knows your name?” Dobraine did not sound as if he were joking.”
― Robert Jordan, quote from The Path of Daggers
“Scuffing her bare feet into slippers, she shrugged into a silk robe, then hesitated, looking down at Perrin. He would be able to see her clearly, if he woke, but to her, he was just a shadowed mound. She wished her mother were there, now, to advise her. She loved Perrin with every fiber of her being, and he confused every fiber. Actually understanding men was impossible, of course, but he was so unlike anyone she had grown up with. He never swaggered, and instead of laughing at himself, he was... modest. She had not believed a man could be modest! He insisted that only chance had made him a leader, claimed he did not know how to lead, when men who met him were ready to follow after an hour. He dismissed his own thinking as slow, when those slow, considering thoughts saw so deeply that she had to dance a merry jig to keep any secrets at all. He was a wonderful man, her curly-haired wolf. So strong. And so gentle.”
― Robert Jordan, quote from The Path of Daggers
“You got further plucking the chicken in front of you than trying to start on one up a tree. Especially when the tree was in another country and there might not even be another chicken.”
― Robert Jordan, quote from The Path of Daggers
“No plan of battle survives first contact,”
― Robert Jordan, quote from The Path of Daggers
“Kittens tangle your yarn, men tangle your wits, and it's simple as breathing for both.”
― Robert Jordan, quote from The Path of Daggers
“what you gain on the swings, you lose on the roundabouts.”
― Robert Jordan, quote from The Path of Daggers
“Quite often, when a woman was agitated, she tried to soothe others whether they required soothing or not.”
― Robert Jordan, quote from The Path of Daggers
“It’s one of the things men are for, taking the blame. They usually deserve it, even if you don’t know exactly how.”
― Robert Jordan, quote from The Path of Daggers
“Perrin suspected Lini was one of those women who saw her “place” as being in charge. Come to think of it, most women did. That was the way of the world, it seemed, not just the Two Rivers.”
― Robert Jordan, quote from The Path of Daggers
“All things change. Until we wake, the dream drifts on the wind.”
― Robert Jordan, quote from The Path of Daggers
“Whether or not what you do has the effect you want, it will have three at least you never expected, and one of those usually unpleasant.”
― Robert Jordan, quote from The Path of Daggers
“You can ask or demand anything of me, but never to let you die without trying to save you. The day you die, I die.”
― Robert Jordan, quote from The Path of Daggers
“He has forgotten how to laugh except in bitterness; there are no tears left in him. Unless he finds laughter and tears again, the world faces disaster. He”
― Robert Jordan, quote from The Path of Daggers
“Peel the apple in your hand, girl, not the one on the tree, Lini’s thin voice seemed to whisper in her ear. Tears are for after; they just waste time before.”
― Robert Jordan, quote from The Path of Daggers
“When a woman plays the fool, look for the man.”
― Robert Jordan, quote from The Path of Daggers
“Sometimes, it was difficult to tell Nynaeve leading from Nynaeve bullying.”
― Robert Jordan, quote from The Path of Daggers
“people with devious minds saw calculation in his honesty.”
― Robert Jordan, quote from The Path of Daggers
“She saw some boulders she would have wagered had once been toes on a statue, though why anyone would make a statue that large with bare feet she could not imagine, and another time the way led through a forest of thick fluted stones among the trees, the weathered stumps of columns, many toppled and all long since mined almost to the ground for their stone by local farmers. A pleasant”
― Robert Jordan, quote from The Path of Daggers
“He's not a total idiot. In fact, he has a good head on his shoulders. He thinks like a woman, most of the time.”
― Robert Jordan, quote from The Path of Daggers
“Who knows a woman's heart? Most women will shrug off what a man would kill you for, and kill you for what a man would shrug off.”
― Robert Jordan, quote from The Path of Daggers
“a man needed all of his wits dealing with a woman. Too often even that was not enough;”
― Robert Jordan, quote from The Path of Daggers
Robert Jordan
Born place: in Charleston, South Carolina, The United States
Born date October 17, 1948
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― Fran Wilde, quote from Updraft
“I will ride horses like wind I will warm my hands at fires I will savor darkened wines I will not think of the road’s end.”
― Ilana C. Myer, quote from Last Song Before Night
“Oh? I thought you were a soldier. Is it not your purpose, to make endings? Is it not your duty to make these”—she taps the corpse—“from the soldiers of the enemy?” “That’s a gross perversion of the idea of soldiering,” says Mulaghesh. “Then please,” says Rada, looking up. “Enlighten me.” She is not being sarcastic or combative, Mulaghesh realizes. Rather, she is willing to follow any string of conversation down the path it leads, much like she’s willing to follow a damaged vein through a desiccated corpse. The surgery room is quiet as Mulaghesh thinks, the silence broken only by the tinkle of Rada’s utensils and the soft hush of the rain. “The word everyone forgets,” says Mulaghesh, “is ‘serve.’ ” “Serve?” “Yes. Serve. This is the service, and we soldiers are servants. Sure, when people think of a soldier, they think of soldiers taking. They think of us taking territory, taking the enemy, taking a city or a country, taking treasure, or blood. This grand, abstract idea of ‘taking,’ as if we were pirates, swaggering and brandishing our weapons, bullying and intimidating people. But a soldier, a true soldier, I think, does not take. A soldier gives.” “Gives what?” “Anything,” says Mulaghesh. “Everything, if asked of us. We’re servants, as I said. A soldier serves not to take, they don’t strive to have something, but rather they strive so that others might one day have something. And a blade isn’t a happy friend to a soldier, but a burden, a heavy one, to be used scrupulously and carefully. A good soldier does everything they can so they do not have to kill. That’s what training is for. But if we have to, we will. And when we do that we give up some part of ourselves, as we’re asked to do.” “What part do you give up, do you think?” asks Rada. “Peace, maybe. Killing echoes inside you. It never goes away. Maybe some who have killed don’t know that they’ve lost something, but they have.” “That is so,” says Rada quietly. “Deaths of all kinds echo on. And sometimes, it seems, they drown out all of life.”
― Robert Jackson Bennett, quote from City of Blades
“I don't know what justice is," she said.
"That's because it isn't the sort of thing you discover. It's a thing you make." She looked at him, and he shrugged. "There are things you find out in the world. Rocks and streams and trees. And there are things you make. Like a house, or a song. It's not that houses and songs aren't real, but you don't just find them in a field someplace and haul them back home with you. They have to be worked at. Made.”
― Daniel Abraham, quote from The Spider's War
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