Robert Jordan Trying Quotations

No, I never feel that it's getting away from me, ... I certainly am telling it in more detail, in which case, I think it's good that I'm telling it in more books than five. Trying to compress it into five would have made it not as readable or enjoyable.

Why, that's like being told to go up in the hills to find lions, only you do not know whether there are any lions, but if there are, they may be hunting you, and they may be disguised as bushes. Oh, and if you find any lions, try not to let them eat you before you can tell where they are. -Elayne

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

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.

A shoat squealing under a fence just attracts the fox, when it should be trying to run.

If you fell head first into a pigsty, you'd try to convince everybody you did it on purpose.

I killed the whole world, and you can too, if you try hard.

Better to try understanding the sun than a woman.

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.

Mat had tried to make her say she saw a hat floating around Mat's head. That would persuade Tuon to stop trying to get rid of his, would it not?

By the way, I saved Moiraine. Chew on that as you try to decide which of the two of us is winning." -Mat