Frases de Robert Jordan

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“No soy un señor, milady. Soy un pastor, y toco la flauta en las posadas”

“La Rueda del Tiempo gira y las eras pasan y dejan tras de sí recuerdos que se convierten en leyenda. La leyenda se difumina, deviene en mito, e incluso el mito se ha olvidado mucho antes de que la era que lo vio nacer retorne de nuevo. En una era llamada la tercera por algunos, una era que ja de venir, una era transcurrida hace mucho, comenzó a soplar un viento…”

“Tonight you will eat fish. Tomorrow, you may die.”

“We are going to tickle some Aes Sedai under the chin, rescue a mule, and put a snip-nosed girl on the Lion Throne. Oh, yes. That's Aviendha. Don't look at her crosswise, or she'll try to cut your throat and probably slit her own by mistake.”

“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.”

“Anger narrowed the vision and made for foolish choices.”

“It is better to be the hammer than the nail.”

“Better ten days of love than years of regretting.”

“The weak must be bold cautiously.”

“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.”

“Better to try understanding the sun than a woman.”

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

“What woman could I hate enough to marry her to the Dragon Reborn?”

“The pike does not ask the frog’s permission before dining.”

“You cannot tell a man he has the power to make the earth shake, then expect him to walk small.”

“The more tragic things get, the more I feel like laughing.”

“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.”

“A man is a man, on a throne or in a pigsty.”

“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.”

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

“A man must know when to retreat from a woman, but a wise man knows that sometimes he must stand and face her.”

“Men! Too blind to see what a stone could see, and too stubborn to be trusted to think for themselves.”

“Men always seem to refuse to admit they are sick until they’re sick enough to make twice as much work for women. Then they claim they’re well too soon, with the same result.”

“Wounds to the pride are remembered long after wounds to the flesh.”

“Cheer the bull, or cheer the bear; cheer both, and you will be trampled and eaten.”

“Caution once forgotten could be forgotten once too often.”

“I trust you like a brother. Until the day you betray me. You have a parole for what you’ve done, in return for your teaching, and a better bargain than you deserve, but the day you turn against me, I will tear it up and bury it with you.”

“The Wheel of Time and the wheel of a man's life turn alike without pity or mercy.”

“When a young woman's cheeks redden for no apparent reason, there is usually a man involved.”

“I may be a fool, but I intend to be a live fool.”

“The best lie is often one too ridiculous to be taken for a lie.”