100 Best The Wheel of Time Quotes

- Why did he call you Dai Shin?
- I hate it when he calls me that.

- When this is all over, we'll find him.
- I promise you that.

- you don't need to go there for her.
- She wouldn't do it for you.
- You are such a prick.
- Go on, then.
- I'll handle this.
- You do whatever you want, like always.

- Thank you.
- You honor us.
- Anyone can do that.
- You find peace in the work.
- That's the honor.

- You'd have never known we were there.
- You don't want to kill us.
- If you did, you'd draw that bow with your fingertips, not your fist.
- And if I wanted to kill you,
- I'd have kept my mouth shut just now.

- We've been heading southwest for three hours now.
- You care to tell me why?
- Moiraine, we need you now.

- It's east.
- We know that.
- Come on, Rand.
- Last thing you ever wanted to do was leave home.
- We both know that.
- It won't be home without them.

- Well, I'm sure your shifts together will pass quickly then.
- Even if we had something in common, I'd never know it.
- It's hard having a conversation with someone who won't say anything.
- Lan is just as bad when he wants to be.
- Can you imagine their dinners?

- Liandrin, you're drawing too much.
- You'll burn out.
- I don't care.
- He killed our sister, and I will cut him... down.
- Stepin!

- Hello.
- Hello. I was just...
- Following me?
- I don't think you could rightly call this tracking.
- Hmm.

- to find her there, but I had to get away, up the mountain into the snow.
- He was crying.
- Dad...
- He was so tiny.
- What are you talking about?

- Hurry!
- Come on!
- -
- I've got you! Keep going!
- Come on! This way!
- Hurry! Hurry! Go.
- -
- I'll hold them off!
- No! Come on!

- I want you to know that the voices in your head...
- ...those are the whispers of madness.
- And as strong as you are, your power is a trickle.
- It's a pinprick of candlelight against the raging sun that will be the Dragon Reborn.

- Because once you do, there's no turning back.
- It was the first vision
- I ever had.
- I was a kid... walking down a damp alleyway in Tar Valon.
- And when I turned a corner,
- I saw a man in armor carrying your heron-marked blade.

- for 3,000 years, not because we do what is expedient but because we do what is right.
- The law applies to us just as much as it does to him.
- And you, a Red, should be the one reminding me of that, not the other way around.

- Jenny.
- That was her name.
- The dog who wasn't your dog.

- But you didn't.
- Yeah.
- My sisters never listen either.
- Where are they?
- Safe at home.
- With your mama and papa?

- Where are we?
- The fortress city of Fal Dara.
- Last bastion against the Blight.
- The Eye of the World is a day's walk beyond the city.
- But rest is close at hand.
- We have friends in these Borderlands.

- -
- Come here.
- Oh-ho!
- Let me see your face.
- Same?
- Ah, same.

- and let us do all the work?
- A gleeman must stay fresh before a performance.
- Yeah, funny how that offer came up when they were handing out pitchforks.
- You all right?
- I need a break.

- Are you really in a position to be making demands?
- It's not a demand, it's a threat.
- She's gonna die without treatment.
- You know that.
- I don't see another Wisdom around here.
- Do you?

Lan: [to Moiraine] Before you, I had nothing to live for... and nothing to die for. You... have given me both.

- This way! Come on!
- Quickly!
- Go!
- Come on!
- The Waygate is up ahead.

- There's more to life than me, this mission.
- Before you,
- I had nothing to live for... and nothing to die for.
- You... have given me both.
- Aren't there goodbyes you need to make in this city before we go?

- And on the night that Malkier was overrun by the Blight, my family was slaughtered.
- They... smuggled me out of the palace.
- And brought you here?

- Logain's army, they're here.
- How many of them are there?
- Don't worry.
- I'll save some for you.

- Hmm, not particularly.
- You saw something for me?
- Don't look at me like that.
- I see the Amyrlin Seat, and she's wearing full regalia, and...
- She's going to be your downfall.

- He's right.
- We're exhausted.
- The three of them don't...?
- I'm feeling a bit tired myself.

- You can take Birgitte back for them.
- She protects me when everyone's asleep.
- I can't take your doll.
- Oh, I have many more.
- Birgitte's always wanted to see the world.

- Nynaeve!
- -
- Nynaeve!
- Nynaeve!

- Maybe Whitecloaks.
- Well, whoever they are...
- ...they've headed east, towards the White Tower.
- The wolves, Perrin.
- It's almost like they, they led us here.
- We should stay well back until we know who we're following.

- Laila?
- Laila?

- Well, have his.
- He's done bugger all.
- Unless you're working.
- Oh.
- If you don't think
- I drink on the job, then you have sorely misjudged me.

- He left us.
- You don't actually believe that, do you?
- Then what are we going to do?
- We can't open the Waygate.
- We can't find our way out of here without them.
- Should we just sit down and die?

- That door is made of ironwood.
- Three men your size couldn't break it down.
- That mountain,
- I think I've seen it before.

- S...
- I found what we're looking for.
- Can she ride?
- The poultice will give her energy for a few hours, maybe more.
- But after that...
- -

- Suit yourself, if you think the
- Fade will be better for company.
- Where are you going?
- East.
- And fast.
- Are you coming?
- East is good. East is good.

- What happened to watching my every move?
- You'll keep her safe.
- You need to.
- Don't be so sure.
- Hah.
- Hyah! Hyah!

- And what exactly is the Black Wind?
- Machin Shin will speak to you.
- Do not listen.
- We'll never make it to our Waygate.
- How far are we from the Gate to Fal Dara?
- It's closer, but I don't...
- Take us there.
- Go!
- Quickly!

- We have some money or we can work for it.
- Save your money.
- Light knows I need the help.
- Come on.
- Start by splitting all that.
- I'm sure two strong lads like you can manage.

- All right?
- It's not your fault... what happened.
- It is.
- It's not.
- It's not your fault.

- Mat!
- Rand.
- Rand.
- No.
- -
- -
- It's all right. I got you.
- I got you.
- Where's Mat?

- "Then we seek still.
- As it was, so shall it be, if we but remember, seek and find."
- I'm Ila.
- This is Raen.
- You both look awful.

- Why have they stopped?
- We have to keep moving. Come on.
- Egwene.

The: The world... it all feels so stable. The truth is it's not. Everything that means anything can be gone in an instant.

- So, what did you decide?
- I want to go.
- Where's Rand?
- I assumed he was with you.

- It's a ritual of my people.
- Seven times for the Seven Towers of Malkier...
- ...for the home we lost... the home we shall find again.
- In this life or the next.
- You pray often?
- When I need to.

- What in Light's name?
- Go! I'll find you.
- No, we-we can't leave without them.
- Pretty sure we can.
- Rand!
- Mat!
- If you don't take me to them right now,
- I'll slit your throat.

- when they hid me in the cellar during an attack on our village.
- I used to say it whenever I was scared.
- Why did you stop?
- People don't go to Wisdoms for ignorance.
- I don't even know what the words mean.
- Do you want to?

- The man raised him in a wooden house beside fields of sheep, in a sleepy village surrounded by two rivers.
- And that baby...
- ...that baby was something impossible.

- You funny now?
- That's a new wrinkle.
- Let's at least start going downhill instead of up, eh?
- Eh?
- What's that, then?
- Downhill.

- I know.
- Perrin! Perrin!
- -
- The wolves, they're close.
- Quick, run.
- This way!

- She doesn't own me.
- Doesn't she?
- Only in the way those kids own you. Hmm?
- "A Wisdom never weds."
- Hey.
- Stay.

- I'm here.
- You know that, right?
- No matter what happens,
- I'm here.

- I didn't mean...
- Just...

- I need a message delivered to the Tower.
- There is a man that they must find.
- A boy, really.
- Mat Cauthon.
- And to whom should I send this message?
- The Red Ajah.

- What if it's him?
- Then I can't let him within a hundred leagues of the Dark One.
- I already know what choice he'd make.
- And the one thing that we cannot afford is for the Dragon to turn to the Shadow.

- I'm sorry.
- I've got sisters who need me.
- I'm done.

Ila: What greater revenge against violence than peace? What greater revenge against death than life?

- He'll betray you.
- Just like your parents.
- Just like your sister.
- None of them understand who you are, what you're going to be.

- Go!
- Run!
- What?
- Come on.
- Come on.
- Run. Run.
- Run.
- Run.

- Well, you are exactly what I thought you were,
- Wisdom al'Meara.
- And what is that?
- Wait.
- What is it?
- My wards.
- Looks like his army didn't run home to their mothers after all.

- I've regained enough strength.
- Let me share the burden.
- That's Moiraine for you, selfless to a fault.
- Hmm.
- We can't afford any gaps in the shield.
- Liandrin will wait to drop hers until yours is in place.

- More problems.
- Fewer Aes Sedai to handle them.
- And the Amyrlin Seat?
- Still seated.
- Not any fonder of Moiraine, though.
- I heard her threaten to fetch you two home personally.

- How are you? You good?
- Yes, please.
- You ready?
- Thank you so much.
- Ah.

- I could've sworn I just saw
- Padan Fain walk past us.
- The peddler?
- Perrin...
- Padan Fain is dead.
- He was there on Bel Tine when the Trollocs came.
- Seems like a different life, doesn't it? Bel Tine.

- Help!
- Why do you think I brought you here? That door is made of ironwood. Three men your size couldn't break it down.
- And like I said, no one can hear a thing outside.
- Rand, come on!

- Some even take up arms, I hear.
- How many come home?
- Most.
- But not all.
- Leaf doesn't fight the wind.
- And sometimes the wind blows away from the tree.

- at the Last Battle...
- ...I'm glad we'll have your strength on our side.
- I know the last one broke this world, and we can't let that happen again, but what if the Dragon is supposed to be there with us, but we've let the Reds gentle him?

- Do you see... the Eye of the World?
- Wish I didn't.
- Why?
- Well, you seem like a decent person.
- Do I make it back?
- I didn't think so.

- No army can get past seven full sisters.
- Logain.
- We need to get to the cave.
- To the Dragon!
- Let's go.
- Move.
- There.

- I tracked him.
- I like her.
- You Warders are more fun than you look.
- Except me, of course.
- I look fun.
- Uh, don't encourage him.

- I see you denied me the opportunity.
- Take care, lad.
- Don't let me find you hanging in a cage someday, huh?

- Those wolves,
- I think they're following us!
- There.
- Keep going! Come on.
- Let's light a fire.
- It'll keep them back.

- I never quite understood why you bonded yourself to Moiraine.
- And now you do?
- You are a king without a kingdom.
- A boy without a family.
- And now you finally belong.
- To her.

- it wasn't in your room.
- I couldn't sleep.
- Hmm.
- I owe you an apology.
- I spoke out of turn.
- I didn't mean to stir anything up.

- I've heard about the bond between an Aes Sedai and her Warder, that you feel what she feels.
- So get ready, because this is going to hurt.

- How long has it been since you last walked through this gate?
- Dai Shan.
- On behalf of Lord Agelmar,
- I welcome you back to Fal Dara.
- Welcome home... you bloody great bastard.

- keep you safe.
- But whatever we do, we have to keep Mat away from those women.
- You know a lot for a simple gleeman.
- We call ourselves gleemen because a silly name makes us less frightening.
- Nothing is more dangerous than a man who knows the past.

- Aram.
- Surely you've heard of the Tinkers?
- Our fires are open to all, for as long as you need them.
- And you two, you look like you need them.

- Need money... to get home.
- Thought he might have some.
- Not like he needs it.
- We've all had desperate moments.
- Tell me when you're finished.

- Come on.
- Let's go.

- You and your companions are welcome here as long as you wish.
- The Borderlands have a long history of mutual support with the White Tower, and that will not change while the Black Hawk still flies.
- Thank you, my Lord.

- No.
- No.
- No...!

- You don't have to stand there like that.
- I'm not gonna run off.
- Fine.

- Twenty years we hunted, and we lost them.
- I lost them.
- Your losses are mine.
- And mine yours.
- I shouldn't have had a drink.
- You always get emotional when I drink.

- And how do you know?
- Because I know Rand.
- He'll go where he thinks you're going.
- -
- Come here.
- I'll keep watch.
- You get warm, get some rest.

- You're the only one who's ever really left me.
- Don't speak to her like that!
- Stop it!
- Excuse me?
- You owe her an apology.
- For what? The truth?
- Stop.
- Just stop. I am so tired of you two fighting over her like she's something you can win.

- I'm sorry. I'll get it.
- Don't worry. I'll get it.
- Come on. Come on. Come on.
- Come on!

- It's what the last king of
- Manetheren said to his wife...
- ...before the battle they knew they'd lose.
- "We shall go into the land..."
- "...so our children can always hold us..."
- "...and will never be alone."

- I couldn't protect my girl in this turn of the Wheel, but one day, long after I'm gone, after Aram and his grandchildren's grandchildren, the Wheel will turn out my daughter's soul again.
- I do what I can to forge a better world for her then, where she can enjoy the life she should have had with me.

- I like her, you know.
- The Wisdom.

- And when I looked at him...
- -
- ...I saw snow and blood.
- I saw a baby born on the slopes of Dragonmount.

- then moved on to the next thing and tried to do right again.
- But now...
- ...I don't know.
- I don't know what's right.
- I don't know what to do.
- I don't know shit, really.

- Take them all.
- We'd be sentencing the other four to certain death.
- We've all heard of the Ways in stories, but none of us know what they are.
- The fastest road to the Eye of the World.
- Mat!
- -

- It's quite invasive, this.
- Do they know what I am?
- No, no one does, thanks to the Aes Sedai.
- I mean, if we revealed what you were, you'd be hounded every minute of the day.
- Or worse.

- Was that me or you?
- If you wouldn't mind channeling us some food or water...

- It's a day's journey, at least, to reach our Waygate, so... take some comfort while you can.
- How did you see that?
- I don't know.
- Do you know what did that to the Guiding?
- There's something following us.

- and shade.
- What's your name, lad?
- Mat Cauthon.
- Thom Merrilin.
- Now that we're, uh... acquaintances, are you gonna give me my money back?

- as break it.
- You don't need to convince this man of anything.
- He's beneath you.
- Kill him.
- You would like that.
- You've gone mad already.