Great wrongs have been done you, but the past is dust. The future may yet be won ..
Give me sweet lies, and keep your bitter truths.
For Phyllis who made me put dragons in
Death is so terribly final, while life is full of possibilities.
Barristan Semly was not a bookish man, but he had often glanced through the pages of the White Book, where the deeds of his predecessors had been recorded. Some had been heroes, some weaklings, knaves...
All the world knew that a maester forged his silver link when he learned the art of healing—but the world preferred to forget that men who knew how to heal also knew how to kill.
A long time ago, she remembered her father saying that when the cold winds blow the lone wolf dies but the pack survives. He had it all backwards.Arya the lone wolf, still lives, but the wolves of the...
A mind needs books as a sword needs a whetstone, if it is to keep its edge.
Some writers enjoy writing, I am told. Not me. I enjoy having written.
Women do not forget. Women do not forgive.
When the red star bleeds and the darkness gathers, Azor Ahai shall be born again amidst smoke and salt to wake dragons out of stone.
Three treasons you will know;. One for blood, one for gold, and one for love.
There's nothing half so mortal as a grey goose feather.
There's no shame in fear, my father told me, what matters is how we face it.
There's naught to eat in the dark but flesh.
The world grows a little darker every day.
The shadows come to dance my lord, dance my lord, dance my lord. The shadows come to stay my lord, stay my lord, stay my lord...
The gods are never that good.
The best lies are seasoned with a bit of truth,
Sometimes he thinks of me as a child he must protect, and sometimes as a woman he would like to bed, but does he ever truly see me as his queen?