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
Surprising what you can dig out of books if you read long enough, isn't it?
I had long wondered," Lan said to Tam. "About the man who had given Rand that heron-marked blade. I wondered if he had truly earned it. Now I know." Lan raised his own sword in salute.
No. Please do not name either child after me, Elayne. Let them live their own lives. My shadow will be long enough as it is.' -Rand
A man who trusts everyone is a fool and a man who trusts no one is a fool. We are all fools if we live long enough.
Wounds to the pride are remembered long after wounds to the flesh.
First things first; take care of what can be done now before worrying too long over what might never be.
How long had he been doing what was necessary instead of what was right? In a fair world they would be one and the same.
Take what you can have. Rejoice in what you can save, and do not mourn your loses for too long.
When you wish for so long that you could hear something, and then suddenly, with no warning, you do, it is like a lightning strike and rain on parched ground at the same time. You're stunned, but you cannot hear enough.
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.
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.
During the week we just told him to throw the ball up to us, and we would catch it for him.
If you pursue two hares, both will escape you.
There are people who want me to teach them how to channel,