All Daenerys wanted back was the big house with the red door, the lemon tree outside her window, the childhood she had never known.
Tell Khan Drogo that he has given me the wind.
She never forgets a slight, real or imagined. She takes caution for cowardice and dissent for defiance. And she is greedy. Greedy for power, for honour, for love.
The ruby at Melisandre's throat gleamed red. It is not those foes who curse you to your face that you must fear, but those who smile when you are looking and sharpen their knives when you turn your ba...
He’s turned against me too, Theon realized. Of late it seemed to him as if the very stones of Winterfell had turned against him. If I die, I die friendless and abandoned. What choice did that leave hi...
A great battle is a terrible thing, the old knight said, but in the midst of blood and carnage, there is sometimes also beauty, beauty that could break your heart.
Sorcery was a sword without a hilt. There is no safe way to grasp it.
I wonder what the High Septon would have to say about the sanctity of oaths sworn while dead drunk, chained to a wall, with a sword pressed to your chest?
You would not believe half of what is happening in King’s Landing, sweetling. Cersei stumbles from one idiocy to the next, helped along by her council of the deaf, the dim, and the blind. I always ant...
Small men oft feel a need to prove their courage with unseemly boasts, he declared. I doubt if he could kill a duck.Tyrion shrugged. Fetch the duck.
Then a begging brother in a tattered brown robe said a blessing on his sword, and a maid kissed his cheek. 'They are for me,' "Why?" He asked Pate. "What am I to them?" "A knight who remembered his vo...
It was a cruel fate, Yet not so cruel as Mago's will be. I promise you that, by the old gods and the new, by the lamb god and the horse god and every god that lives. I swear by the Mother of Mountains...
You are a woman, my lady, the Greatjon rumbled in his deep voice. Women do not understand these things.You are the gentle sex, said Lord Karstark, with the lines of grief fresh on his face. A man has...
No, no, my good knight, do not fear for me. The fire is mine. I am Daenerys Stormborn, daughter of dragons, bride of dragons, mother of dragons, don't you see? Don't you SEE?
The northern girl. Winterfell's daughter. We heard she killed the king with a spell, and afterward changed into a wolf with big leathery wings like a bat, and flew out a tower window.
Remember this, boy. All dwarfs may be bastards, yet not all bastards need be dwarfs. And with that he turned and sauntered back into the feast, whistling a tune. When he opened the door, the light fro...
And the crow once called the raven black.
The only wolves we got to fear are the ones wear manskin,
Why is it always the innocents who suffer most, when you high lords play your game of thrones?
His mouth would have given despair to even the drollest of fools; it was a mouth made for frowns and scowls and sharply worded commands, all thin pale lips and clenched muscles, a mouth that had forgo...