Robert Jordan, The Fires Of Heaven Quotes

The oak fought the wind and was broken, the willow bent when it must and survived.

Always leave a way out, unless you really want to find out how hard a man can fight when he’s nothing to lose.

In Shinear, a woman [is] safe anywhere, any time-except from Trollocs and Myrddraal, of course-and any man [will] die to see it so.

Waiting turns men into bears in a barn, and women into cats in a sack.

Life is a dream from which we all must wake before we can dream again.

Only a battle lost is sadder than a battle won.

Victory settles a lot of arguments in most men's heads.

I always say, if you must mount the gallows, give a jest to the crowd, a coin to the hangman, and make the drop with a smile on your lips.