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Quotes from The Shadow Rising — Robert Jordan

1948–2007 United States

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19 quotes

It is better to guide people than try to hammer them into a line.

The Shadow Rising (1992)

There's no time for winking at the men when you're busy bailing the boat.

The Shadow Rising (1992)

You could weave silk from pig bristles before you could make a man anything but a man.

The Shadow Rising (1992)

Surprising what you can dig out of books if you read long enough, isn't it?

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Courage to strengthen, fire to blind, music to daze, iron to bind.

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Humankind is made for uncertainty, struggle, choice and change.

The Shadow Rising (1992)

If you plan for the worst, all surprises are pleasant.

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On the heights, the paths are paved with daggers.

The Shadow Rising (1992)

Do not trouble trouble till trouble troubles you.

The Shadow Rising (1992)

You read too much and understand too little.

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A weeping woman is a bucket with no bottom.

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The Wheel weaves as the Wheel wills, and we are only the thread of the Pattern.

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You have to understand, child. Everyone wants someone in their life, someone who cares for them, someone they can care for. Even a queen.

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I’ll not have you bleeding to death on me. That would be just like you, to die and leave me the work of burying you. You have no consideration.

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Prophecy is most dangerous when you try to make it happen... The Pattern weaves itself around you, but when you try to weave it, even you cannot hold it.

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No wine for me. Strange enough things happen when my head is clear. I want to know the difference.

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As well you try to understand the sun, Perrin. It simply is, and it is not to be understood. You cannot live without it, but it exacts a price. So with women.

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I expect a civil word for a civil word!

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For the young, death is an enemy they wish to try their strength against. For those of us a little older, she is an old friend, an old lover, but one we are not eager to meet again soon.

The Shadow Rising (1992)

Attribution

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