Robert Jordan (1948 – 2007)
Under which he is best known as the author of the bestselling The Wheel of Time fantasy series.
I’ll not have you bleeding to death on me. That would be just like you, to die and leave me the work of burying you. You have no consideration.
Are you so eager to destroy us?
It was a gelding, and it would not have hurt me. Horses like me. I am not a little boy: I am nine. And my name is Olver, not boy.
The more tragic things get, the more I feel like laughing.
And she learned to guard her tongue better. I will wager she did. When we left them, she was still yelping and trying to get those scarlet puffers out of her dress. A scarlet puffer looks much like a red adder if your eye is dull like a wetlander’s, but it is not poisonous. It does wriggle when confined, though.
Never prod at a woman unless you must. She will kill you faster than a man and for less reason, even if she weeps over it after.
I thought you saidar-ed it.
If you plan for the worst, all surprises are pleasant.
We all have our limits. And we set them further out than we have any right.
Bring your lightnings, Aes Sedai. I will dance with them.
I will never shame you. I will hate the man you choose because he is not me, and love him if he makes you smile. No woman deserves the sure knowledge of widow's black as her brideprice, you least of all.
A flapping tongue can put you in the net instead of the fish."
A slow horse does not always reach the end of the journey.
Loial, didn't you say there was no wind in the Ways?
Only a fool thinks his enemies stand still when he isn't looking, my Lord Dragon.
It was easier to trip a fool than to knock him down.
Fall in love with a man, and you end up doing laundry, even if it does belong to another man.
You have made a place in my heart where I thought there was no room for anything else. You have made flowers grow where I cultivated dust and stones. Remember this, on this journey you insist on making. If you die, I will not survive you long.
If I could find a way to escape my destiny, do I deserve to?
A ship is alive, and he is like a man, with a true man’s heart. Treat him well and care for him properly, and he will fight for you against the worst sea. He will fight to keep you alive even after the sea has long since given him his own deathstroke. Neglect him, though, ignore the small warnings he gives of danger, and he will drown you in a flat sea beneath a cloudless sky.