Robert Jordan
Robert Jordan
James Oliver Rigney, Jr., better known by his pen name Robert Jordan, was an American author of epic fantasy. He is best known for the Wheel of Time series, which comprises 14 books and a prequel novel. He is one of the several writers who have written seven original Conan the Barbarian novels that are highly acclaimed to this day. Rigney also wrote historical fiction under his pseudonym Reagan O'Neal, a western as Jackson O'Reilly, and dance criticism as Chang...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth17 October 1948
CityCharleston, SC
CountryUnited States of America
On a day of fire and blood, a tattered banner waved above Dumai's wells, bearing the ancient symbol of Aes Sedai. On a day of fire and blood and the one power, as prophecy had suggested, the unstained tower, broken, bent knee to the forgotten sign. The first nine Aes Sedai swore fealty to the Dragon Reborn, and the world was changed forever.
Wounds to the pride are remembered long after wounds to the flesh.
It is the enemy you underestimate who kills you.
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.
Sleep well and wake, Rand al'Thor.
A gnarled old branch dulls the blade that severs a sapling.
Better to try understanding the sun than a woman.
A man must know when to retreat from a woman, but a wise man knows that sometimes he must stand and face her.
You never escape the traps you spin yourself. Only a greater power can break a power, and then you're trapped again. Trapped forever so you cannot die.
You cannot please everyone. You cannot soothe everyone.
Young men and fools sometimes bear pain they do not have to as a badge of their pride. Or their foolishness.
The more bosom a woman displayed, the less she wanted you to look. Openly, at least.
The best way to avoid trouble is to make sure no one wants to trouble you.
The road ahead of you is long, dark, and, I very much fear, bloodstained. I also very much fear that you will take us all down that road. But you must live to reach the end of it.