How much can a crown be worth, when a crow can dine upon a king?
His time was past, her handmaid Irri declared. No man should live longer than his teeth.
He was a good man... No. He was a great man. A maester of the Citadel, chained and sworn, and Sworn Brother of the Night's Watch, ever faithful. When he was born they named him for a hero who had died...
He has an old man's caution and a young man's ambition, and has never lacked for cunning.
Harwin's eyes went from her face to the flayed man on her doublet. How do you know me? he said, frowning suspiciously. The flayed man . . . who are you, some serving boy to Lord Leech?For a moment she...
Gods be good, why would any man ever want to be king? When everyone was shouting King in the North, King in the North, I told myself ... swore to myself ... that I would be a good king, as honorable a...
Friend or foe, the crows care not.
For herself, she wanted sleet and ice, howling winds, thunder to shake the very stones of the Red Keep. She wanted a storm to match her rage.
Folly and desperation are ofttimes hard to tell apart.
Faith is like porridge. Better with milk and honey.
Esistono due tipi di persone ad Approdo del Re: i giocatori e le pedine.Petyr Baelish Littlefinger
Edd, fetch me a block.
Dead history is writ in ink, the living sort in blood.
Clegane would grunt from time to time, and once Tyrion heard him mutter a curse, but otherwise he fought in a sullen silence.Not Oberyn Martell. You raped her, he called, feinting. You murdered her, h...
Aye, the prince said. I told the story to Ser Balon, but not all of it. As the children splashed in the pools, Daenerys watched from amongst the orange trees, and a realization came to her. She could...
And Arya, well . . . Ned’s visitors would oft mistake her for a stableboy if they rode into the yard unannounced. Arya was a trial, it must besaid. Half a boy and half a wolf pup.
An admiral without ships, a hand without fingers, in service of a king without a throne. Is this a knight who comes before us, or the answer to a child's riddle?
A woman's life is nine parts mess to one part magic, you'll learn that soon enough...and the parts that look like magic turn out to be the messiest of all.
A man who sees nothing has no use for his eyes, the Mountain declared. Cut them out and give them to your next outrider. Tell him you hope that four eyes might see better than two . . . and if not, th...
A man does not need to be a wizard to know truth from falsehood, not if he has eyes. You need only learn to read a face. Look at the eyes. The mouth. The muscles here, at the corners of the jaw, and h...