Nynaeve Quotes

“He did not think anyone needed to look after Nynaeve; around Nynaeve, to his mind, other people needed someone to look after them.”
― Robert Jordan, The Dragon Reborn

“Elayne", she said softly as they resumed their climb, "if we are caught, I swear that before they kill us, or do whatever they do, I will beg them on bended knees to let me stripe you from top to bottom with the stoutest switch I can find!”
― Robert Jordan, The Great Hunt

“Lord Rand," Nynaeve snorted. "That young man is growing too big for his breeches. When I get my hand on him, I'll lord him.”
― Robert Jordan, The Great Hunt

“Couldn’t we camp down by the lakes?” Nynaeve asked, patting her face with her kerchief. “It must be cooler down by the water.”

“Light,” Mat said, “I’d just like to stick my head in one of them. I might never take it out.”

Just then something roiled the waters of the nearest lake, the dark water phosphorescing as a huge body rolled beneath the surface. Length on man-thick length sent ripples spreading, rolling on and on until at last a tail rose, waving a point like a wasp’s stinger for an instant in the twilight, at least five spans into the air. All along that length fat tentacles writhed like monstrous worms, as many as a centipede’s legs. It slid slowly beneath the surface and was gone, only the fading ripples to say it had ever been.

Rand closed his mouth and exchanged a look with Perrin. Perrin’s yellow eyes were as disbelieving as he knew his own must be. Nothing that big could live in a lake that size. Those couldn’t have been hands on those tentacles. They couldn’t have been.

“On second thought,” Mat said faintly, “I like it right here just fine.”
― Robert Jordan, The Eye of the World

“You come back here, or I'll hero you! I'll thump you so you think you've had an adventure!”
― Robert Jordan, The Shadow Rising

“He isn't a horse, Elayne. You don't own him.”
― Robert Jordan, The Fires of Heaven

“More than once Nynaeve had been shocked at her own cruelty, even while she was delighted at her inventiveness.”
― Robert Jordan

“Sometimes, it was difficult to tell Nynaeve leading from Nynaeve bullying.”
― Robert Jordan, The Path of Daggers

“I left... to save you," Nynaeve whispered. "I only came along to protect you.”
― Robert Jordan, A Memory of Light