Once there were two moons in the sky, but one wandered too close to the sun and cracked from the heat. A thousand thousand dragons poured forth, and drank the fire of the sun. That is why dragons brea...
Once a man has seen a dragon in flight, let him stay at home and tend his garden in content, for this wide world has no greater wonder.
Oldtown, Maester Aemon wheezed. Yes. I dreamt of Oldtown, Sam. I was young again and my brother Egg was with me, with that big knight he served. We were drinking in the old inn where they make the fea...
Older than sin and twice as mean
Of all the bright cruel lies they tell you, the cruelest is the one called love.
Now here is a riddle, Melisandre said. A clever fool and a foolish wise man.
Night’s Watch takes no part, so no man’s our enemy.And no man’s our friend, she thought.
Never wound a foe when you can kill him. Dead men don’t claim vengeance.
Never forget what you are, for surely the world will not. Make it your strength. Then it can never be your weakness.
Never forget what you are, for surely the world will not. Make it your strength. Then it can never be you weakness. Armor yourself in it, and it will never be used to hurt you.
Ned was clad in a white linen doublet with the direwolf of Stark on the breast; his black wool cloak was fastened at the collar by his silver hand of office. Black and white and grey, all the shades o...
Ned closed his eyes and opened them; it made no difference. He slept and woke and slept again. He did not know which was more painful, the waking or the sleeping. When he slept, he dreamed: dark distu...
My words lied.My eyes and my arm shouted out the truth,but you were not seeing.
My life is a poor thing, but it is yours.
Mercy, thought Theon as Luwin dropped back. There’s a bloody trap. Too much andthey call you weak, too little and you’re monstrous.
Jon hung a quiver from his belt and pulled an arrow. The shaft was black, the fletching grey. As he notched it to his string, he remembered something that Theon Greyjoy had once said after a hunt. The...
It was astonishing to see how angry Cersei could wax over accusations she knew perfectly well to be true.
It is hard to take orders from a man you laughed at in your cups,
It is as if I were a stranger here. Nothing has changed, and yet everything has changed - Theon Greyjoy
In the end a gentle heart may be worth more than pride or valor.