Crossroads of Twilight Quotes

“Sometimes, pain is all that lets you know you're alive.”
― Robert Jordan, Crossroads of Twilight

“If your enemy offers you two targets, strike at a third.”
― Robert Jordan, Crossroads of Twilight

“And it shall come to pass, in the days when the Dark Hunt rides, when the right hand falters and the left hand strays, that mankind shall come to the Crossroads of Twilight and all that is, all that was, and all that will be shall balance on the point of a sword, while the winds of the Shadow grow.

-From The Prophecies of the Dragon translation believed done by Jain Charin, known as Jain Farstrider, sheortly before his disapperance”
― Robert Jordan, Crossroads of Twilight

“The innocent died along with the guilty. And if you did nothing, then only the innocent died.”
― Robert Jordan, Crossroads of Twilight

“When you knew you were going to hang, the only thing to do was grin at the noose.”
― Robert Jordan, Crossroads of Twilight

“Life is a dream, and everyone wakes eventually.”
― Robert Jordan, Crossroads of Twilight

“If you tried to solve every problem yourself, you ended by solving none.”
― Robert Jordan, Crossroads of Twilight

“Always plan ahead, Lini used to say, but worry too hard over next year, and you can trip over tomorrow.”
― Robert Jordan, Crossroads of Twilight

“When you ask questions, Lini used to say, then you have to hear the answers whether you want to or not.”
― Robert Jordan, Crossroads of Twilight

“Change came so slowly you never noticed it creeping up on you, or far too fast for comfort, but it came.”
― Robert Jordan, Crossroads of Twilight

“A useful maxim: two rarities combined call for close attention.”
― Robert Jordan, Crossroads of Twilight

“When the fishmongers are all buying at the same price, you can bet they were all drinking at the same inn last night.”
― Robert Jordan, Crossroads of Twilight

“A wise man tried to avoid battles he would not only lose, but look foolish losing.”
― Robert Jordan, Crossroads of Twilight

“Confidence was one key to victory. The other side believing you were confident was sometimes almost as good as actually being confident.”
― Robert Jordan, Crossroads of Twilight

“Truth almost always did come out in the end, but by the end, truth was often so wrapped around with rumors and speculation and absolute lies that most people never did believe it.”
― Robert Jordan, Crossroads of Twilight

“Domon would learn; even when a woman needed help, if she did not want it, she made you pay for giving it.”
― Robert Jordan, Crossroads of Twilight

“The surface of the water may be still, but the fish never stop swimming.”
― Robert Jordan, Crossroads of Twilight

“People never really changed, yet the world did, with disturbing regularity. You just had to live with it, or at least live through it. Now and then, with luck, you could affect the direction of the changes, but even if you stopped one, you only set another in motion.”
― Robert Jordan, Crossroads of Twilight

“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, Crossroads of Twilight

“Sometimes you had to laugh if only to keep from crying.”
― Robert Jordan, Crossroads of Twilight

“Light, how the horror of yesterday became merely the uneasiness of today, once you grew accustomed.”
― Robert Jordan, Crossroads of Twilight

“The Creator had made the world and then left humankind to make of it what they would, a heaven or the Pit of Doom by their choosing. The Creator had made many worlds, watched each flower or die, and gone on to make endless worlds beyond. A gardener did not weep for each blossom that fell.”
― Robert Jordan, Crossroads of Twilight

“Everyone knew that, and not many stopped to think that anything that “everyone knew” deserved close examination. Being”
― Robert Jordan, Crossroads of Twilight

“Some women,” Dyelin murmured into her wine, “can make a fish bite by crooking a finger, Lady Birgitte. Other women have to drag their bait all over the pond.”
― Robert Jordan, Crossroads of Twilight

“Anger made for hasty decisions and rash words that sometimes were hard to take back.”
― Robert Jordan, Crossroads of Twilight

“When the fishmongers are all buying at the same price”
― Robert Jordan, Crossroads of Twilight

“Değişim ağır ağır geliyordu, asla fark etmiyordunuz. Ya da rahatsız edici ölçüde hızlı geliyordu ama her durumda, geliyordu. Siz aynı kaldığını düşünseniz, aynı kaldığını umsanız bile, hiçbir şey aynı kalmıyordu.”
― Robert Jordan, Crossroads of Twilight

“I will help you as far as I can because it is not right for the Shaido to hold you. You do not follow ji’e’toh. I do. If I cast aside my honor and my obligations just because the Shaido have, then I allow them to decide how I will act. I will wear white for a year and a day and then they will release me, or I will walk away, but I will not throw away who I am.” Without”
― Robert Jordan, Crossroads of Twilight

“Remember, you can find a way out of any difficulty if you keep your eyes and wits sharp, but if you don’t, you’ll trip over your own feet.”
― Robert Jordan, Crossroads of Twilight

“«Así me condene, hice todo cuanto pude», pensó amargamente. No servía de nada sentirse culpable porque eso fuera todo lo que podía hacer. ¡De nada! Tenía que concentrarse en la gente que había escapado.”
― Robert Jordan, Encrucijada en el crepúsculo