“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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“The Edge...There is no honest way to explain it because the only people who really know where it is are the ones who have gone over. The others-the living-are those who pushed their control as far as they felt they could handle it, and then pulled back, or slowed down, or did whatever they had to when it came time to choose between Now and Later. But the edge is still Out there.”
― Hunter S. Thompson, quote from Hell's Angels: A Strange and Terrible Saga
“Eve: Shut up, we have zero time for you and your bullshit dramatics
Monica: Or what, you'll bleed on me, Emo Princess of Freakdomonia?
Claire: Fine. You come with us. If you get in my way, I'll kill you.”
― Rachel Caine, quote from Black Dawn
“There’s no accounting for the mysteries of the human heart”
― Susan Elizabeth Phillips, quote from Heaven, Texas
“In spite of this universal plunge toward matrimony, I still haven’t lost my senses. If worse comes to worse, I still know how to run.”
― David Eddings, quote from Enchanters' End Game
“Yes it sometimes happens and will sometimes happen again that I forget who I am and strut before my eyes, like a stranger. Then I see the sky different from what it is and the earth too takes on false colours. It looks like rest, it is not, I vanish happy in that alien light, which must have once been mine, I am willing to believe it, then the anguish of return, I won’t say where, I can’t, to absence perhaps, you must return, that’s all I know, it’s misery to stay, misery to go. The”
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