We rode on the winds of the rising storm, We ran to the sounds of the thunder. We danced among the lightning bolts, and tore the world asunder.

— Robert Jordan

What did you spend so much time talking about with Ila? If you weren’t dancing with that long-legged fellow, you were talking to her like it was some kind of secret.”“Ila was giving me advice on being a woman,” Gene replied absently. He began laughing, and she gave him a hooded, dangerous look that he failed to see.“Advice! Nobody tells us how to be men. We just are.”“That,” Gene said, “is probably why you make such a bad job of it.

— Robert Jordan

What is too absurd to be believed is believed because it is too absurd to be a lie.

— Robert Jordan

What you practice too often, you use without thinking.

— Robert Jordan

When the Wolf King carries the hammer, thus are the final days known. When the fox marries the raven, and the trumpets of battle are blown.

— Robert Jordan

Whether the bear beats the wolf or the wolf beats the bear, the rabbit always loses.

— Robert Jordan

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

Women do not become exhausted they only exhaust others.

— Robert Jordan

Women often seemed to leave things unsaid, and in his limited experience it was what they did not say that proved the most trouble.

— Robert Jordan

You can never know everything, and part of what you know is always wrong. Perhaps even the most important part. A portion of wisdom lies in knowing that. A portion of courage lies in going on anyway.

— Robert Jordan