The greatest fools are ofttimes more clever than the men who laugh at them,
My old grandmother always used to say, Summer friends will melt away like summer snows, but winter friends are friends forever.
If every woman had a direwolf, men would be much sweeter.
Harsh justice is still justice.
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...
All Knights must bleed. Blood is the seal of our devotion.
Aemon’s blind white eyes came open. Egg? he said, as the rain streamed down his cheeks. Egg, I dreamed that I was old.
A son for a son, heh. But that's a grandson...and he never was much use. --Walder Frey
When a dog goes bad, the fault lies with his master.
There is entirely too much tut-tutting in this realm, if you ask me. All these kings would do a deal better if they put down their swords and listened to their mothers.
The moon was a crescent, thin and sharp as the blade of a knife.
Some words are wind, ser. Some are treason.
So now you are a woman. Do you have the least idea of what that means?It means that I am now fit to be wedded and bedded (...) and to bear children for the king.
On the gallows tree, all men are brothers.
My enemies are legion.
Men come and go. They lie, or die, or leave you. A mountain is not a man, though, and a stone is a mountain's daughter. I trust myself, and I trust my mules. I won't fall.
It seemed as he had been falling for years. Fly, a voice whispered in the darkness, but Bran did not know how to fly, so all he could do was fall.
I often said that writers are of two types.There is the architect, which is one type. The architect, as if designing a building, lays out the entire novel at a time. He knows how many rooms there will...
I have done things i am not proud of, things that brought shame onto my house and my father's name.. but to kill your own sire? how could any man do that?- give me a crossbow and pull down your breech...
Girl or boy, we fight our battles. But the God's let us choose our weapons.