Robert Jordan on Time

"If the world is ending, a woman will want time to fix her hair. If the world's ending, a woman will take time to to tell a man something he's done wrong."

"Jump in a hole without looking, and there’ll be a snake in it every time."

"Young men and fools sometimes bear pain they do not have to as a badge of their pride. Or their foolishness."

"By the Creator at the moment of creation. May we shelter safe beneath the Light, in the Creator’s hand."

"When a woman says she will obey you, of her own will, it is time to sleep lightly and watch your back."

"Sometimes, a wife must do what her husband cannot."

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

"Once you decide to gut a fish, there’s no use waiting till it rots."

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

"The Wheel of Time turns, and Ages come and pass, leaving memories that become legend. Legend fades to myth, and even myth is long forgotten when the Age that gave it birth comes again."

"Trust is as slippery as a basket of eels sometimes."

"Better ten days of love than years of regretting."

"Weep for what is lost forever."

"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."

"I always thought the stole weighed about as much as three good men. The Amyrlin has few easy decisions to make, and fewer where she can be sure. Do what you must, and pay the price if you’re wrong. Sometimes if you are right, too."