Robert Jordan Two Quotations

If you pursue two hares, both will escape you.

Fantasy is an area where it is possible to talk about right and wrong, good and evil, with a straight face. In mainstream fiction and even in a good deal of mystery, these things are presented as simply two sides of the same coin. Never really more than a matter of where you happen to be standing.

Duty is heavier than a mountain, Dai Shan.' That time, Lan did flinch. How long had it been since someone had been able to do that to him with mere words? He remembered teaching that same concept to a youth out of the Two Rivers. A sheepherder, innocent of the world, fearful of the fate laid out before him by the Pattern.

If your enemy offers you two targets, strike at a third.

Two hands. One to destroy, the other to save. Which had he lost?

A Warder once told me Trollocs call the Aiel Waste 'the Dying Ground.' I mean to make them give that name to the Two Rivers.

Two days' hunger made a fine sauce for anything.

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