100 Best The Wheel of Time Quotes

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

- 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.

- 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.

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

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

- Nynaeve!
- -
- Nynaeve!
- Nynaeve!

- You want to ask, so just ask.
- You said you tracked me.
- All the way from the Two Rivers to Shadar Logoth.
- How?
- Said you could ask, not that I'd answer.
- All right, I'm ready.

- 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.

- 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.

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

- 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?

- Drink! Drink! Drink!
- Welcome, gents.
- -

- I'm still waiting.
- -
- Have you ever been in battle?
- Picked up a weapon?
- A sword? Bow and arrow?
- An ax?
- And, tell me, has your life been better or worse since you picked up that ax?

- 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?

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

- 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?

- 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.

- 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.

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

- 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!

- 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!

- 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.

- And what does that make you?
- Proud.
- And tired.
- Especially Lan.
- How he keeps up with Moiraine.
- You should talk.

- 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.

- 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.

- 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.

- 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.

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

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

- This.
- It's been right in front of me this whole time.
- I never even noticed.
- The day you proposed to Laila, that was the day
- Egwene and I got together.
- The only woman I've ever loved was my wife.

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

- 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?

- 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.

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

- 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?

- 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.

- 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.

- 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.

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

- You get used to it.
- He looks like he's just sitting there.
- I mean, I always knew women couldn't see men's weaves, but the experience itself, it's...
- It's like holding a cat in the bath.
- Yeah.

- Our age.
- A woman with a braid or a big man.
- A blacksmith.
- No, the only other fresh one in town's a gleeman.
- Best quiet down.
- He's about to do another song.
- Shh, quiet.

- And she likes you a lot.
- It's because
- I always bring gifts.
- Always.
- -
- Well...
- Thank you for including me tonight.
- You didn't give me much of a choice.

- 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.

- 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."

- 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.

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

- Whatever it was you heard in the wind...
- ...put it out of your minds.

- 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.

- 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.

- 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.

- 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.

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

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

- If it's you...
- I will always stand by you, you know that.
- No matter what happens.
- No matter what comes.

- 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.

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

- Even Liandrin won't cross the Amyrlin Seat.
- The Amyrlin isn't here.
- And you need to...
- And I promise
- I'll get some rest.
- You worry more than you used to.
- I sleep less... so I have the time.

- Donation for the gleeman.
- And a small fee for the life lesson.
- Bloody expensive lesson.
- The best ones are.
- Come on.
- -
- Sit down.

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

- 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.

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

- 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?

- Go, get to Logain!
- Kerene.
- We'll hold the army!
- -
- Come on.

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

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

- 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?

- Don't let him bait you.
- Anyone but him here sings ends up in the lake.
- That'll be three coppers.
- We didn't order that beer for him.
- Donation for the gleeman.
- It's all right.

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

- If you're gonna take from the dead, the least you can do is bury them.

- become what you've always wanted to be.
- No, not without you.
- I've already made that mistake once.
- I'll come with you to the White Tower.
- Every Aes Sedai needs a Warder.
- Would you really think
- I'd let someone else be yours?

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

- I called one of them.
- It's already on its way.
- What?
- One of what?
- One of what?
- One of the Eyeless.
- And you can't outrun a Fade.

- You were scowling.
- I bet on pouting.
- Mat is safer there than he is here.
- I can promise you that.
- Wait.
- There's something up there.

- 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?

- without food or gold.
- If you're bandits, you're not very good ones.
- It's not often villagers come down from the Mountains of Mist.
- Uh, we're from Whitebridge.
- We got separated from a trading caravan.
- Is that so?

- He destroyed the gates.
- His army's everywhere.
- My king, we need to get you away from here.
- No. Come with me.
- Go!

- 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.

- 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.

- 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.

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

- 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.

- What is it?
- Mat?
- It's the wind.
- Forget about the whispers.
- None of it's true.
- None of it.

- Come on.
- Let's go.

- You can't outrun a Fade.
- She's a Darkfriend, boy.
- Moiraine Sedai.
- Liandrin Sedai.
- We captured a man calling himself the Dragon Reborn.

- 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.

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

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

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

- 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.

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

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

- people will live in peace and happiness for the rest of their days.
- You don't believe it.
- There's a lot I believe in, but only old fools and children believe in the Song.
- Are you sure you haven't already found it?

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

- Well, this seems like a friendly place.
- Nice way to welcome people.
- So you'll be on best behavior, then.
- Come on.
- Wonder why we never had one of these in Two Rivers.
- Charming, really.

- Have we got enough money to pay for tonight?
- I have. You got robbed.
- Come on. Let's see if that barmaid has a room for us.
- Come on.

- 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.

- 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.

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

- 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...
- -