Only the soldier pines and sentinels still showed green; the broadleaf trees had donned mantles of russet and gold, or else uncloaked themselves to scratch against the sky with branches brown and bare...
Oh, I think not, Varys said, swirling the wine in his cup. Power is a curious thing, my lord. Perchance you have considered the riddle I posed you that day in the inn? It has crossed my mind a time or...
Nothing. My father is very good at doing nothing. He calls it thinking.
None of us is ever ready,' he (Ned) said.'For knighthood?''For death.
Neither's the one you get, less you want me to see if your apple's ripe, yet. - Yoren
My enemies are everywhere, and my friends are fools.
Mother, I want to see him fly!
Minds are like swords, I do fear. The old ones go to rust.
Knowledge is what man is all about. People like you have tried to hold back progress since the beginning of time. But they failed, and you failed. Man needs to know.Maybe, Sanders said. But is that th...
Kings are supposed to put the realm before their sisters.
It was bitingly cold up here, and the wind pulled at his clothes like an insistent lover.
It is chivalry that makes a true knight, not a sword.
It is better to be seen as cruel than foolish.
In real life, the hardest aspect of the battle between good and evil is determining which is which.
Il meta-lupo non aveva risposte. Leccò il viso di Jon con la sua linguaumida e ruvida come una raspa. Gli occhi di Spettro intercettarono gli ultimiraggi del sole, scintillando come due enormi stelle...
If only you could take that final step, you'd see farther than ll the rest. You'd be alone with nothing but blue sky above you.
I will teach them what it means to put a lion in a cage, Cersei thought.
I will not fight you, Princess Meria told Rhaenys, nor will I kneel to you. Dorne has no king. Tell your brother that.I shall, Rhaenys replied, but we will come again, Princess, and the next time we s...
I wait with sullen resignation, said Tuf, unmoving.
I used to think that it got cold up in the Dornish Marches. What did I know? Nothing, thought Jon Snow, the same as me.