Knife of Dreams Quotes

“There is some delight in ale and wine
And some in girls with ankles fine
But my delight, yes always mine
Is to dance with Jak O’ the Shadows

We will toss the dice however they fall
And snuggle the girls be they short or tall
Then follow Lord Mat whenever he calls
To dance with Jak O’ the Shadows.”
― Robert Jordan, Knife of Dreams

“A beautiful battle is one you don't have to fight”
― Robert Jordan, Knife of Dreams

“Lan told me once that Malkier lives so long as one man wears the hadori in pledge that he will fight the Shadow, so long as one woman wears the ki'sain in pledge that she will send her sons to fight the Shadow. I wear the ki'sain, Master Aldragoran. My husband wears the hadori. So do you. Will Lan Mandragoran ride to the Last Battle alone?”
― Robert Jordan, Knife of Dreams

“The Golden Crane flies for Tarmon Gai'don!”
― Robert Jordan, Knife of Dreams

“My name is Nynaeve ti al’Meara Mandragoran. The message I want sent is this. My husband rides from World’s End toward Tarwin’s Gap, toward Tarmon Gai’don. Will he ride alone?”
― Robert Jordan, Knife of Dreams

“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, Knife of Dreams

“The sweetness of victory and the bitterness of defeat are alike a knife of dreams.

-From Fog and Steel by Madoc Comadrin”
― Robert Jordan, Knife of Dreams

“Some people thought scars a sign of toughness. It seemed to Perrin that fewer scars meant that you knew what you were doing.”
― Robert Jordan, Knife of Dreams

“That had the irritating sound of an old saying.”
― Robert Jordan, Knife of Dreams

“But only a fool thought he knew what was in a woman’s head just because she had a smile on her face.”
― Robert Jordan, Knife of Dreams

“A woman's love can be violent.
Sometimes they hurt a man worse than they think they have, worse than they mean to.
Sometimes, they're even sorry afterwards.”
― Robert Jordan, Knife of Dreams

“Beware the fox that makes the ravens fly.”
― Robert Jordan, Knife of Dreams

“Small hopes can grow surprising fruit.”
― Robert Jordan, Knife of Dreams

“You're not my enemy, but your Empire is.”
― Robert Jordan, Knife of Dreams

“It looks a good plan to me. As good as any till the arrows start flying.”
― Robert Jordan, Knife of Dreams

“Thieves are always the most careful of their purses.”
― Robert Jordan, Knife of Dreams

“she knew that showing nerves could infect others with them.”
― Robert Jordan, Knife of Dreams

“Light’s truth, if you got a woman to feed you on a regular basis, she was halfway won.”
― Robert Jordan, Knife of Dreams

“In any trade, you needed to make the other fellow think he was getting something extra,”
― Robert Jordan, Knife of Dreams

“Small courtesies were the lubricant of daily life.”
― Robert Jordan, Knife of Dreams

“Beware the fox that makes the ravens fly, for he will marry you and carry you away. Beware the man who remembers Hawkwing’s face, for he will marry you and set you free. Beware the man of the red hand, for him you will marry and none other”
― Robert Jordan, Knife of Dreams

“Continuity provides stability, and stability brings prosperity”
― Robert Jordan, Knife of Dreams

“If someone offers him enough gold, it becomes a toss of the dice, and not even Mat Cauthon could say how they’ll land.”
― Robert Jordan, Knife of Dreams

“The woman never wanted much. Just her own way. Like just about every other woman he had ever known.”
― Robert Jordan, Knife of Dreams

“People frequently continued to go on as they had been after all purpose in it had been lost.”
― Robert Jordan, Knife of Dreams

“The mighty tell the lesser to dig in the mud and keep their own hands clean.”
― Robert Jordan, Knife of Dreams

“when a dangerous path was your only route to safety, you had to take it.”
― Robert Jordan, Knife of Dreams

“Women could compress a great deal into one look.”
― Robert Jordan, Knife of Dreams

“Mourn if you must,” he said, “but mourn on the march for Tarmon Gai’don.”
― Robert Jordan, Knife of Dreams

“Well, heroes got patted on the head, then pushed out of the way until the next time a hero was needed, if they survived being a hero in the first place. Very often, heroes did not.”
― Robert Jordan, Knife of Dreams