Robert Jordan (1948 – 2007)
Under which he is best known as the author of the bestselling The Wheel of Time fantasy series.
You'll use it [Perrin's axe], boy, and as long as you hate using it, you would use it more wisely than most men would. Wait. If ever you don't hate it any longer, then will be the time to throw it as far as you can and run the other way.
The only way to live is to die. I must die. I deserve only death.
Tonight you will eat fish. Tomorrow, you may die.
Rand al’Thor is a mule-headed, stone-willed fool of a...a...a man!
Caution once forgotten could be forgotten once too often.
When you wish for so long that you could hear something, and then suddenly, with no warning, you do, is like a lightning strike and rain on parched ground at the same time. You're stunned, but you cannot hear enough.
I don't know. They could put up a warning sign or something. Hello. Welcome to Hindstrap. We will murder you in the night and eat your bloody face if you stay past sunset. Try the pies. Martna Maily makes them fresh daily."
Now. When the poor blind fool they’ve chosen out for their Amyrlin gets here, I will do the talking. She can’t be very bright, or they’d never have been able to shove her into the job. Amyrlin Seat for a bloody village in the middle of bloody nowhere. You keep your mouths shut and curtsy for all you’re worth, and I’ll pull your bacon off the coals again.
Take what you want, and pay for it.
You are a very lucky man, Dimir Faral. You are going to watch your friends hang. Then you'll be given a horse, and you will go tell Pedron Niall that one day I will hang him too for what happened here.
First things first; take care of what can be done now before worrying too long over what might never be.
I am going to defeat them, Taim. All of them. They think they can tear everything down. It’s always tearing down, never building up! I’m going to build something, leave something behind. Whatever happens, I will do that! I’ll defeat the Dark One. And cleanse saidin, so men don’t have to fear going mad, and the world doesn’t have to fear men channeling. I’ll . . .
The best way to apologize to a man is to trip him in a secluded part of the garden.
The best lie is often one too ridiculous to be taken for a lie.
Nothing like a little dance with Trollocs to ready you for sleep. Right Aviendha?
"A bloody hero. Thom, if I ever look like acting the hero again, you kick me."
"And what would you have done differently?"
"Just kick me!"
As well you try to understand the sun, Perrin. It simply is, and it is not to be understood. You cannot live without it, but it exacts a price. So with women.
When a woman says she will obey you, of her own will, it is time to sleep lightly and watch your back.
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.