He found Podrick Payne asleep in a chair outside the door of the solar, and shook him by the shoulder. Summon Bronn, and then tun down to the stables and have two horses saddled. (Tyrion). The squire'...
Few of the birds that Aemon had sent off had returned as yet. One reached Stannis, though. One found Dragonstone, and a king who still cared.
Can you drown in grief? She turned away sharply, angry with her own frailty. She had no time for the luxury of self-pity.
And all was black and still, and black and cold, and black and dead, and black.
The lord of light made the sun and moon and stars to light our day, and gave us fire to keep the night at bay.
You make us look bad', complained Toad.'You looked bad before I ever met you', Jon told him.
There were four of them, Catelyn saw. An old man in the black of the Night’s Watch, two servants … and Tyrion Lannister, standing there small and bold as life. My men will sleep in your stable, and as...
There are worse ways to die than warm and drunk.
The day my father came to claim me, my mother did not wish for me to go. ‘She is a girl,' she said, ‘and I do not think that she is yours. I had a thousand other men.' He tossed his spear at my feet a...
Tarly, when I was a lad half your age, my lady mother told me that if I stood about with my mouth open, a weasel was like to mistake it for his lair and run down my throat. If you have something to sa...
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....
Jaime, Brienne whispered, so faintly he thought he was dreaming it. Jaime, what are you doing?Dying, he whispered back.No, she said, no, you must live.He wanted to laugh. Stop telling me what to do, w...
History is a wheel, for the nature of man is fundamentally unchanging. What has happened before will perforce happen again.
Drunks they may be, but a drunken man knows not fear. Fools, aye, but a fool can kill a king. Rats, that too, but a thousand rats can bring down a bear.
Cats never weep, she told herself, no more than wolves. It's just a stupid dream.
A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies, said Jojen. The man who never reads lives only one.
You don't just have people who wake up in the morning and say, "What evil things can I do today, because I'm Mr. Evil?" People do things for what they think are justified reasons. Everybody is the her...
Our enemies leave our bodies for the crows and the wolves. Our friends bury us in secret graves.
This was how an enemy should be dealt with: with a dagger, not a declaration.
The mystery knight prevails against all challengers, and wonder dances in his wake.