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

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

“Life is a dream, and everyone wakes eventually.”
― 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

“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

“If you tried to solve every problem yourself, you ended by solving none.”
― 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

“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

“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

“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

“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

“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

“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

“Sometimes you had to laugh if only to keep from crying.”
― 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

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

“memory expanded what it did not shrink.”
― Robert Jordan, Crossroads of Twilight

“Impatience was a vice when beginning a journey of unknown length.”
― 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. Nothing”
― Robert Jordan, Crossroads of Twilight

“Tumad aveva il comando della scorta, come accadeva la maggior parte dei giorni in cui Bashere non aveva mansioni più importanti da affidare al giovane tenente. Bashere lo stava istruendo.
Riusciva a pensare con chiarezza e vedere al di là di ciò che gli stava di fronte: era destinato a un rango elevato, se fosse vissuto abbastanza. Un uomo alto, anche se più basso di un paio di palmi rispetto a Bael, oggi il malumore campeggiava sul suo volto come un secondo naso.
«Cosa ti turba, Tumad?»
«L'Aiel aveva ragione, mio signore.» Tumad diede un rabbioso strattone alla sua spessa barba nera con un pugno guantato. «Questi Andorani sputano ai nostri piedi. Non mi piace dovermi allontanare mentre ci fanno le boccacce.» Be', era ancora giovane.
«Trovi la nostra situazione noiosa, forse?» rise Bashere. «Hai bisogno di più eccitazione? Tenobia è solo cinquanta leghe a nord di qui, e se si può fare affidamento sulle dicerie, ha portato con sé Ethenielle di Kandor e Paitar di Arafel, e perfino quello Shienarese, Easar. Tutta la potenza delle Marche di Confine viene a cercarci, Tumad. Neanche a quegli Andorani giù nel Murandy piace che noi ci troviamo nell'Andor, stando a quanto ho udito, e se quell'esercito di Aes Sedai che stanno affrontando non li riduce in pezzi, o se non l'ha già fatto, potrebbero venire a cercarci. E se è per questo porrebbero farlo anche le Aes Sedai, presto o tardi. Abbiamo cavalcato per il Drago Rinato, e non riesco a immaginare nessuna Sorella che possa dimenticarsene. E poi ci sono i Seanchan, Tumad. Pensi davvero che non li incontreremo più? Verranno da noi, o noi dovremo andare da loro; o l'uno o l'altro, è sicuro. Voi giovani non riconoscete l'eccitazione nemmeno quando vi striscia tra i baffi!»”
― Robert Jordan, Crossroads of Twilight