Two Rivers, craftsmen were revered. And their marksmen were the best the world knew. An elite group of Two Rivers men, armed with the new firing sticks men were calling rifles, served with the Aiel in their peacekeeping campaigns in Shara. It was the only place war was known in.

— Robert Jordan

Robert Jordan Quotes

Continuity provides stability, and stability brings prosperity.

— Robert Jordan

At the end of time, when the many become one, the last storm shall gather its angry winds to destroy a land already dying. And at its center, the blind man shall stand upon his own grave. There he shall see again, and weep for what has been wrought.

— Robert Jordan

Do you remember when we took that tame sport called swords and learned to kill with it, as the old volumes said men once had?

— Robert Jordan

Some men,” she said, not raising her eyes from his hand, “choose to seek greatness, while others are forced to it. It is always better to choose than to be forced. A man who’s forced is never completely his own master. He must dance on the strings of those who forced him.

— Robert Jordan

The bed was narrow, the woman’s elbows sharp and her feet icy despite thick blankets trapping the warmth of the small, tiled stove built in beneath the bed.

— Robert Jordan

You tossed him aside for the White Tower. Why should you care if I pick him up?

— Robert Jordan

It was always a mistake to choose a pillow-friend who did not wear the shawl. Especially if you were fool enough to let her take the lead.

— Robert Jordan

You break your neck and I’ll see it mended just so I can break it again.

— Robert Jordan

Across the nations the stories spread like spiderweb laid upon spiderweb, and men and women planned the future, believing they knew truth. They planned, and the Pattern absorbed their plans, weaving toward the future foretold.

— Robert Jordan

Who are you? What do you want?” The black-clad man drew himself up arrogantly. “Once I was called Elan Morin Tedronai, but now – ” “Betrayer of Hope.

— Robert Jordan

Mat, a very wise woman once told me that time would heal my wounds, that time smoothed everything over. I didn’t believe her. Only.

— Robert Jordan

If you shook hands with a Taren Ferry man, people said, you counted your fingers afterwards.

— Robert Jordan

As sure as peaches are poison.

— Robert Jordan

He has forgotten how to laugh except in bitterness; there are no tears left in him.

— Robert Jordan

Mat walked stiffly to the hatch. Behind him, he heard Mallia. “He’s a cold one. I never heard that Andor employed assassins, but burn my soul, he is a cold one.

— Robert Jordan

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

A man who thinks all day about the catch he missed because of stormy weather ends up wasting time when the sky is clear.

— Robert Jordan

If you do not learn from your losses, you will be ruled by them.

— Robert Jordan

Why, Perrin, you must know that I love you.” She stood there, watching his mouth work, then spoke slowly and carefully. “Like a brother, you great wooden-headed lummox! The arrogance of men never ceases to amaze me. You all think everything has to do with you, and every woman has to desire you.

— Robert Jordan

Conan stared at the hand holding the pendant. The grim god of his Cimmerian northcountry, Crom, Lord of the Mound, gave a man only life and will. What he did with them, or failed to do, was up to him alone. Life and will.

— Robert Jordan
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