The gods are blind. And men see only what they wish.
Not that I'm complaining. It was better than my old dream, where Harma Dogshead was feeding me to her pigs." "Harma's dead." Jon said. "But not the pigs. They look at me the way Slayer used to look at ham. Not to say that the wildlings mean us harm. ...
What sort of gods make rats and plagues and dwarfs?
She never forgets a slight, real or imagined. She takes caution for cowardice and dissent for defiance. And she is greedy. Greedy for power, for honour, for love.
The heart is all that matters.
It is hard to look a hero when mounted on a pig.
Above him loomed a grotesque fat man [...] His bedrobe was large enough to serve as a tourney pavilion, but its loosely knotted belt had come undone, exposing a huge white belly and a pair of heavy breasts that sagged like sacks of suet covered with ...
You cannot tame a dragon with a history lesson.
Jon wanted nothing more. , he had to tell himself, . The realization twisted in his belly like a knife. They had chosen him to rule. The Wall was his, and their lives were his as well. he could hear his lord father saying,
Free folk don't follow names, or little cloth animals sewn on a tunic," the King-Beyond-the-Wall had told him. "They won't dance for coins, they don't care how your style yourself or what that chain of office means or who your grandsire was. They fol...
I can be humbler than anyone.
There was an agelessness about him, a stillness; on Roose Bolton's face, rage and joy looked much the same.
Man wants to be the king o’ the rabbits, he best wear a pair o’ floppy ears.
A lord may love the men that he commands, but he cannot be a friend to them. One day he may need to sit in judgement on them, or send them forth to die.
Are you a maid, Penny?” She blushed. “Yes. Of course. Who would have –” “Stay that way. Love is madness, and lust is poison.
Beware men with cold hearts and blue lips.
A fair bargain leaves both sides unhappy.
The moon was a crescent, thin and sharp as the blade of a knife.
A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies, said Jojen. The man who never reads lives only one.
Death, there will be death, aye. Your lordship lost a son at the Red Wedding. I lost four upon the Blackwater. And why? Because the Lannisters stole the throne. Go to King’s Landing and look on Tommen with your own eyes, if you doubt me. A blind ma...
It's death and destruction I want to bring down upon House Lannister, not scorn. Jon said.
