Some doors are best left closed.
Show me the path I must walk and do not let me stumble in the dark places that lie ahead.
She has the blood of a wolf, said Joffrey. And you have the wits of a goose, said Tyrion.
Ser Jaime? Even in soiled pink satin and torn lace, Brienne looked more like a man in a gown than a proper woman.I am grateful, but...you were well away. Why come back?A dozen quips came to mind, each...
Ser Cleos raised a shout. When Jaime looked up, Brienne was lumbering along the clifftop well ahead of them, having cut across a finger of land while they were following the bend in the river. She thr...
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...
One voyage to the East and a man could live as rich as a lord until the end of his days. When he'd been younger, Davos had dreamed of making such voyages himself. But the years went dancing by like mo...
Once I dreamed of flying, she thought, and now I’ve flown, and dream of stealing eggs. That made her laugh. Men are mad and gods are madder she told the grass, and the grass murmured its agreement.
Now here is a riddle, Melisandre said. A clever fool and a foolish wise man.
Nothing tarnishes a hero as much as failure.
No, but you have courage. Not battle courage perhaps but . . . I don’t know . . . a kind of woman’s courage.
Neither's the one you get, less you want me to see if your apple's ripe, yet. - Yoren
My mind is my weapon.
My enemies are everywhere, and my friends are fools.
Music to my ears. Though not a tune I’m fond of.
Mother, I want to see him fly!
Men live their lives trapped in an eternal present, between the mists of memory and the sea of shadow that is all we know of the days to come. Certain moths live their whole lives in a day, yet to the...
Men have scars, women mysteries.
In the end a gentle heart may be worth more than pride or valor.
If war were arithmetic, then the mathematicians would rule the world. (Lord Petyr Baelish)