Quotable

[Marie 73]

OK this is something I have plans for but I am only one person. So...what are some of your fave Moiraine quotes or even things other characters have said about/to Moiraine?

[Olivia 26]

An Aes Sedai, if she really was one, and a Cairhienin? There could be no worse combination.

- Lan, NS

 

There were things one did in public and talked about, and things that were done in private and definitely not talked about.

- Momo, NS. I like because it shows her cute prudish side

 

Burn you, Moiraine, Perrin thought as he rode after them. Sometimes I do not know which side you are on.

- Perrin, TDR

 

Will post more later. Great idea for a thread, Marie! We should have done this ages ago.

Edited May 25, 2010 by Olivia

[Velvet 0]

Great topic!

 

"Speaking of wool-brained, do you mean to continue with this plan to go into the Waste?"

 

"I do," the girl said, firmly. She needed to be back in the Tower, training her strength. What was Siuan thinking? She will probably give me one of those sayings about boats and fish, when I can ask her.

- Moiraine, TSR

 

Bitchy and fabulous. Love.

[Kaitlin 22]

Bad.Ass.Bitch:

 

"The Dark One is after you three, one or all, and if I let you go running off wherever you want to go, he will take you. Whatever the Dark One wants, I oppose, so hear this and know it true. Before I let the Dark One have you, I will destroy you myself."

Mo - EotW "Choices"

 

"Never watch a death you don't have to."

Lan to Mo in NS

 

Finally Moiraine spoke, and her voice filled the empty silence with sharpness, "You all want explanations, but if I explained my every action to you, I would have no time for anything else."

- EotW

 

What they were still learning to do, Moiraine could do half asleep

- tDR "Doorways"

 

*looking up more*

Edited May 25, 2010 by »Snow«

[Kaitlin 22]

I'm doubleposting.

 

"It follows the river as if drawn with a pen," Moiraine was saying in satisfied tones. "There are not ten women in Tar Valon who could do that unaided. Not to mention from the back of a galloping horse."

 

"I don't mean to complain, Moiraine Sedai," Thom said, sounding oddly diffident for him, but would it not have been better to cover us a little further? Say to Baerlon? If that Draghkar looks on this side of the river, we'll lose everything we've gained."

 

"Draghkar are not very smart, Master Merrilin," the Aes Sedai said dryly.

Mo bragging to Thom, EotW

 

"Moiraine is still with him, is she? A fine-looking woman. A fine woman, if she were not Aes Sedai. Meddle with that sort, and you get more than your fingers burned."

Thom to Mat, drunk in TV

[Marie 73]

Now there was a beautiful woman, with every grace a man could want, including laughing at his quips.

Thom about his woman.

 

For an instant she regretted sending Thom away.

Moiraine about her man.

 

The problem of bringing Thom Merrilin to heel could be managed later.

Moiraine..about her man again.

[Olivia 26]

In playful retaliation to the above post :

 

She had never been as close to anyone as she was to Siuan. Or loved anyone as much.

- Momo, NS

 

*cries* I wish RJ had kept it that way... Oh well, I'm over it after all these years, though I'm still sticking to Moiraine/Siuan as the best pairing no matter what.

 

My two all-time favorite quote about Momo are said by Siuan in NS:

Moiraine was not a pretty little porcelain doll; she was a beautiful little porcelain doll. [...] But Moiraine had turned out to be as tough as she herself if not tougher. No matter how often she was knocked down, she climbed back to her feet straightaway. Moiraine did not know the meaning of "give up."

A paragraph later:

Her voice usually minded Siuan of silver bells, but Moiraine hated hearing that.

[Marie 73]

He paused, looking thoughtful. "Moiraine said I was still alive, did she? Is she with you, then?"

 

Rand shook his head. To his surprise, Thom seemed disappointed.

 

"Too bad, in a way. She's a fine woman, even if she is..." He left it unsaid.

 

My dearest Thom, There are many words I would like to write to you, words from my heart

[Marie 73]

How could we forget the best quote ever?!

 

[Sam 19]

"Rand al’Thor," Moiraine told the air in a low, tight voice, "is a mule-headed, stone-willed fool of a . . .a . . . a man!"

[Kaitlin 22]

"...[M]y name is simply Moiraine.

-Moiraine, The Gleeman, EotW

 

"A vile bird," came a woman's voice from behind them, melodious despite echoes of distaste, "to be mistrusted in the best of times."

-Moiraine, Strangers, EotW

 

Rand's gaze fell to the woman who had spoken. She, too, had been watching the flight of the raven, but now she turned back, and her eyes met his. He could only stare.

Strangers, EotW

 

For an instant [Rand] thought those eyes were deep pools about to swallow him up.

Strangers, EotW

 

"Peace!" the Lord of Fal Dara muttered. "Are you injured, Moiraine Sedai?..."

 

"Be still, Lord Agelmar," Moiraine said, "... I am not so frail as everyone here seems to think."

Agelmar and Moiraine, The Wheel Turns, EotW

 

"Everything is a part of the Pattern, my old friend," Moiraine replied softly.

Moiraine, Leavetaking, EotW Edited May 30, 2010 by »Snow«

[Marie 73]

I like quotes that talk about Moiraine being pretty.

[Kaitlin 22]

Where is that one quote where Rand thinks about Lanfear being the most beautiful woman ever and then he thinks about Moiraine suspiciously? Did I imagine it?

 

Moiraine went on as if she could not feel Nynaeve's eyes on her back; Nynaeve knew she must be able to, she was staring so hard.

Footprints in Air, EotW Edited May 30, 2010 by »Snow«

[Marie 73]

Um. Was it when he knew Selene was really Lanfear or before?

[Kaitlin 22]

I think it was when he knew her as Selene. Was it the beginning of book 2 or ... I really may have imagined it. :>

 

"This is more serious," [Moiraine] said softly. She fumbled at Mat's waist, pulling his coat open, and made an angry sound. "The dagger is gone."

Moiraine, Dark Prophecy, tGH Edited May 30, 2010 by »Snow«