It is said that her cry of anguish and ecstasy left a crack across the face of the moon, but her blood and her soul and her strength and her courage all went into the steel.
Is it treason to say the truth? A bitter truth, but no less true for that.
In life, the monsters win.
If sinners speak, why should the righteous listen?
I swear it by earth and water,said the boy in green.I swear it by bronze and iron, his sister said.We swear it by ice and fire, they finished it together.Bran groped for words. Was he supposed to swea...
I pray he found the peace in death that he never knew in life.
I have never forgotten, and I can't imagine you have, and I've thought of it over the years. It was so good, when it was good, I kept thinking. How could it go wrong?
I am the blood of the dragon, she thought. If they are monsters, so am I.
Gendry, do you swear before the eyes of gods and men to defend those who cannot defend themselves, to protect all women and children, to obey your captains, your liege lord, and your king, to fight br...
Free folk and kneelers are more alike than not, Jon Snow. Men are men and women women, no matter which side of the Wall we were born on. Good men and bad, heroes and villains, men of honor, liars, cra...
Better a beggar than a thief.
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.
All that Syrio Forel had taught her went racing through her head. Swift as a deer. Quiet as shadow. Fear cuts deeper than swords. Quick as a snake. Calm as still water. Fear cuts deeper than swords. S...
A young girl she might be, but Daenerys Targaryen was the only thing that held them all together.
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...
Men come and go. They lie, or die, or leave you.
They were in a long line, an endless line, and as they burst from the wood there was an instant, the smallest part of a heartbeat, when all Catelyn saw was the moonlight on the point of their lance, a...
I sailed up to the cold stars but they were cold no longer, and I grew bigger and bigger until I was the stars and they were me, and I was Union, and for a single solitary glittering instant I was the...
The hard truths are the ones to hold tight.-The Old Bear, A Game of Thrones