I take no joy in mead nor meat, and song and laughter have become suspicious strangers to me. I am a creature of grief and dust and bitter longings. There is an empty place within me where my heart wa...
I rose too high, loved too hard, dared too much. I tried to grasp a star, overreached, and fell.
I remembered that, so I allowed myself to hope... perhaps I wanted to... we all deceive ourselves, when we want to believe.
I just need to rest, that’s all, to rest and sleep some, and maybe die a little.
I have the virtue of being still amongst the living. Some would say that is my only virtue.
I have climbed these steps so often I know each one by name.
I count no day as lived unless I have loved a woman, slain a foeman, and eaten a fine meal . . . and the days that I have lived are as numberless as the stars in the sky.
I am surrounded by flatterers and fools. It can drive a man to madness,.. . Half of them don’t dare tell me the truth, and the other half can’t find it.
I am loyal to my beloved Joffrey. (Sansa)No doubt. As loyal as a deer surrounded by wolves. (Tyrion)Lions, she whispered without thinking.
His lips look like two worms fucking.
He was no dragon, Dany thought, curiously calm. Fire cannot kill a dragon
He told me that a maester’s collar is made of chain to remind him that he is sworn to serve, Jon said, remembering. I asked why each link was a different metal. A silver chain would look much finer wi...
Great wrongs have been done you, but the past is dust. The future may yet be won ..
Even a hedge knight has his honor.
Day followed day, and night followed night, until Dany knew she could not endure a moment longer. She would kill herself rather than go on, she decided one night... Yet when she slept that night, she...
Dark wings, dark words, Ned said grimly.
Could you bring back a man without a head? Arya asked. Just the once, not six times. Could you?I have no magic, child. Only prayers. That first time, his lordship had a hole right through him and bloo...
Can they love without a word for it?
Bronn himself, who’d only smiled that insolent dark smile of his and afterward said, They’ll kill for that knighthood, but don’t ever think they’ll die for it.Tyrion had no such delusion.
A child sees an obstacle, and his first thought is to run around it or knock it down. A lord must learn that sometimes words can accomplish what swords cannot.