the wheel of time

August 29, 2023 by achrilock

“A pleasant room. Moderately cool.”

— Robert Jordan, ‘Lord of Chaos’

Pages: 1 2

https://achrilock.com/2023/08/5609/

August 20, 2023 by achrilock

“Civility cost nothing, and if this fool did not decide it was cheap at the price soon. . . .”

Robert Jordan, ‘Lord of Chaos’

Pages: 1 2

https://achrilock.com/2023/08/5508/

July 23, 2023 by achrilock

“The wheel of a man’s life, Lews Therin murmured. No mercy. No pity.”

— Robert Jordan, ‘Lord of Chaos’

Pages: 1 2

https://achrilock.com/2023/07/5212/

July 12, 2023 by achrilock

“Sammael had no sense of humor at all, but that great hammer of an army waiting in Tear was the biggest joke the world had ever seen.”

— Robert Jordan, ‘Lord of Chaos’

Pages: 1 2

https://achrilock.com/2023/07/5117/

May 9, 2023 by achrilock

“Only a battle lost is sadder than a battle won.”

— Robert Jordan, ‘The Fires of Heaven’

Pages: 1 2

https://achrilock.com/2023/05/4360/

April 19, 2023 by achrilock

“You must be hard with your enemies, not soft.”

— Robert Jordan, ‘The Fires of Heaven’

Pages: 1 2

https://achrilock.com/2023/04/4062/

April 6, 2023 by achrilock

“There is a saying in Cairhien, though I have heard it as far away as Tarabon and Saldaea. ‘Take what you want, and pay for it.’”

— Robert Jordan, ‘The Fires of Heaven’

Pages: 1 2

https://achrilock.com/2023/04/3875/

March 30, 2023 by achrilock

“It seems to me that kings—and queens—can be fools when they forget what they are and act like who they are, but they’re worse when they only remember what they are and forget who. Most could do with someone whose only job is to remind them that they eat and sweat and cry the same as any farmer.”

— Robert Jordan, ‘The Fires of Heaven’

Pages: 1 2

https://achrilock.com/2023/03/3758/

March 8, 2023 by achrilock

“‘The Wheel weaves as the Wheel wills,’ he told her. ‘I will do what I must. Remember that, Moiraine. I will do what I must.’”

— Robert Jordan, ‘The Shadow Rising’

Pages: 1 2

https://achrilock.com/2023/03/3426/

March 5, 2023 by achrilock

“The Way of the Leaf was a fine belief, like a dream of peace, but like the dream it could not last where there was violence. He did not know of a place without that. A dream for some other man, some other time. Some other Age perhaps.”

— Robert Jordan, ‘The Shadow Rising’

Pages: 1 2

https://achrilock.com/2023/03/3381/

February 24, 2023 by achrilock

“That evening the second rain came, hours of drenching downpour with a sky full of roiling black clouds and stabbing lightning.”

— Robert Jordan, ‘The Shadow Rising’

Pages: 1 2

https://achrilock.com/2023/02/3232/

February 14, 2023 by achrilock

“You’re at the mercy of the Trollocs, the mercy of the Whitecloaks, and the mercy of anybody with a grudge. As long as one has a hold on you, all three do.”

— Robert Jordan, ‘The Shadow Rising’

Pages: 1 2

https://achrilock.com/2023/02/3069/

February 10, 2023 by achrilock

“When you choose the fight, Bain had said, you must take the consequences, win or lose.”

— Robert Jordan, ‘The Shadow Rising’

Pages: 1 2

https://achrilock.com/2023/02/2986/