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Quotes from Lord of Chaos — Robert Jordan

1948–2007 United States

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Death rides on my shoulder, death walks in my footsteps. I am death.

Lord of Chaos (1994)

What I love I destroy. What I destroy, I love.

Lord of Chaos (1994)

If you try putting a woman on a horse when she does not want to go, she may put a knife in your ribs.

Lord of Chaos (1994)

We are all fools sometimes, child, yet a wise woman learns to limit how often.

Lord of Chaos (1994)

Break the seals. Break the seals, and end it. Let me die forever.

Lord of Chaos (1994)

An arrow may not be a shocklance, yet it can still kill you.

Lord of Chaos (1994)

The yellowfly is almost too small to see, but if you leave its egg in your skin, you will lose an arm or leg before it hatches - if it does not kill you.

Lord of Chaos (1994)

Pride fills me. I am sick with the pride that destroyed me.

Lord of Chaos (1994)

Nothing ever goes as you expect. Expect nothing, and you will not be surprised. Expect nothing. Hope for nothing. Nothing.

Lord of Chaos (1994)

The only way to live is to die. I must die. I deserve only death.

Lord of Chaos (1994)

The lions sing and the hills take flight.
The moon by day, and the sun by night.
Blind woman, deaf man, jackdaw fool.
Let the Lord of Chaos rule.

Lord of Chaos (1994)

You cannot please everyone. You cannot soothe everyone.

Lord of Chaos (1994)

A woman’s eyes cut deeper than a knife.

Lord of Chaos (1994)

What can’t be changed must be endured.

Lord of Chaos (1994)

If wishes were wings, pigs would fly.

Lord of Chaos (1994)

There are things worth fighting for.

Lord of Chaos (1994)

There was a price to be paid for any decision he made. There was a price for who he was. Other people paid it.

Lord of Chaos (1994)

We hear less, Davram Bashere, but perhaps sometimes we see more.

Lord of Chaos (1994)

When you wish for so long that you could hear something, and then suddenly, with no warning, you do, is like a lightning strike and rain on parched ground at the same time. You're stunned, but you cannot hear enough.

Lord of Chaos (1994)

By the look of you, Nynaeve, I could almost think you were angry, but I know you have such a sweet disposition people ask you to dabble your fingers in their tea.

Lord of Chaos (1994)

Attribution

Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Robert Jordan (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.