Summer is the time for squabbles. In winter, we must protect one another, keep each other warm, share our strengths.
Let me give you some counsel, bastard,” Lannister said. “Never forget what you are, for surely the world will not. Make it your strength. Then it can never be your weakness. Armor yourself in it, and it will never be used to hurt you.” Jon was ...
It's not," Mormont told him. "Gods save us, boy, you're not blind and you're not stupid. When dead men come hunting in the night, do you think it matters who sits the Iron Throne?
Nothing burns like the cold.
Nothing burns like the cold. But only for a while. Then it gets inside you and starts to fill you up, and after a while you don't have the strength to fight it.
A craven can be as brave as any man, when there is nothing to fear. And we all do our duty, when there is no cost to it. How easy it seems then, to walk the path of honor.
Egg has the truth of it. Aerion's quite the monster. He thinks he’s a dragon in human form, you know. That’s why he was so wroth at that puppet show. A pity he wasn't born a Fossoway, then he’d think himself an apple and we’d all be a deal sa...
A hedge knight must hold tight to his pride. Without it, he was no more than a sellsword
Politicians were mostly people who'd had too little morals and ethics to stay lawyers.
Mostra che le loro parole possono ferirti, e non sarai più libero dalla derisione. Se proprio vogliono darti un nome, accettalo, fallo tuo, in modo che poi non possano mai più usarlo per farti del male.
Never believe anything you hear at a woman’s tit.
I was very sorry to hear about your losses. Your brother was a terrible traitor, I know, but if we start killing men at weddings they'll be more frightened of marriage than they are presently. (Olenna Tyrell to Sansa Stark
One-and-twenty sorts of birds,” said Ser Kyle. “One-and-twenty sorts of bird droppings,” said Ser Maynard. “You have no poetry in your heart, ser.” “You have shit upon your shoulder.
...if you dance with dragons, you must expect to burn.
Wine makes all things possible.
If you die before you say her name, ser, I will hunt you through all seven hells." --Prince Oberyn of Dorne.
Always keep your foes confused. If they are never certain who you are or what you want, they cannot know what you are like to do next.
A man is never so vulnerable in a battle as when he flees," Lord Eddard has told Jon once. "A running man is like a wounded animal to a soldier. It gets his bloodlust up.
The singers make much of kings who valiantly die in battle, but your life is worth more than a sword. To me at least, who gave it to you.
She is not truly beautiful but something about her draws the eye.
