Lan Mandragoran Quotes

I will hate the man you choose because he is not me, and love him if he makes you smile. No woman deserves the sure knowledge of widow’s black as her brideprice, you least of all.

Lan told me once that Malkier lives so long as one man wears the hadori in pledge that he will fight the Shadow, so long as one woman wears the ki'sain in pledge that she will send her sons to fight the Shadow. I wear the ki'sain, Master Aldragoran. My husband wears the hadori. So do you. Will Lan Mandragoran ride to the Last Battle alone?

In war, you say a prayer for your dead and ride on, because there is always another fight over the next horizon." —al'Lan Mandragoran

Death is light as a feather; duty, heavy as a mountain

Anything can be a weapon, if the man or woman who holds it has the nerve and will to make it so.

We are alike in many ways, you and I. There is darkness in us. Darkness, pain, death. They radiate from us. If ever you love a woman, Rand, leave her and let her find another. It will be the best gift you can give her.

She was a soldier, a warrior in her way as much as I. This could have happened two hundred times these past twenty years. She knew it, and so did I. It was a good day to die.

Lan shook his head sightly "He was better. But he thought I was finished, with only one arm. He never understood. You surrender after you're dead.

Lan Mandragoran, you bloody wonderful man! You did it!" -Mat

I am al’Lan Mandragoran,” Lan bellowed. “Lord of the Seven Towers, Defender of the Wall of First Fires, Bearer of the Sword of the Thousand Lakes! I was once named Aan’allein, but I reject that title, for I am alone no more. Fear me, Shadow! Fear me and know. I have returned for what is mine. I may be a king without a land. But I am still a king!

Every man has to die somewhere,' he said softly, and went off to make up his blankets.

There’s one rule above all others for being a man. Whatever comes, you face it on your feet.

Only once did anyone speak loudly enough for Rand to hear clearly. "You must handle it," Moiraine said in answer to something unheard from Lan. "He will remember too much as it is, and no help for it. If I stand out in his thoughts...

In his cradle he had been given four gifts. The ring in his hands and the locket that hung around his neck, the sword on his hip and an oath sworn in his name. The locket was the most precious, the oath the heaviest. 'To stand against the Shadow so long as iron is hard and stone abides. To defend the Malkieri while one drop of blood remains. To avenge what cannot be defended.

I'd not have thought to find a heron-mark sword in a place like this," Lan said.

Death comes sooner or later to everyone," the Warder said grimly, "unless they serve the Dark One, and only fools are willing to pay that price.

Death comes sooner or later to everyone, unless they serve the Dark One, and only fools are willing to pay that price.", the Warder said grimly.

You may talk if you wish," she went on absently, "but do it quietly. Now, you go, Master al'Vere. This is a sickroom, not a gathering hall. See that I am not disturbed.

In the north, in the Borderlands along the Great Blight, there is a saying. The look of the Eyeless is fear." "The Eyeless?" Rand said, and Lan nodded. "Myrddraal see like eagles, in darkness or in light, but they have no eyes. I can think of few things more dangerous than facing a Myrddraal. Moiraine Sedai and I both tried to kill, the one that was here last night, and we failed every time. Halfmen have the Dark One's own luck.

¡Soy al’Lan Mandragoran! —bramó—. ¡Señor de las Siete Torres, Defensor de la Muralla de los Fuegos Precursores, Portador de la Espada de los Mil Lagos! ¡Antaño me llamaban Aan’allein, pero reniego de ese título porque ya no estoy solo! ¡Que me tema la Sombra! Que me tema y me conozca. He vuelto a recuperar lo que me pertenece. Puede que sea un rey sin tierra. ¡Pero soy un rey!

Más te vale resignarte, Lan Mandragoran. Mi corazón te pertenece, y has admitido que el tuyo me pertenece a mí. Tú me perteneces, y no te dejaré escapar. Serás mi Guardián y serás mi esposo, y lo serás durante mucho tiempo, porque no pienso dejarte morir. ¿Lo entiendes? Puedo ser tan testaruda como haga falta.

Duty heavier than a mountain. Death lighter than a feather. - al'Lan Mandragoran