There are worse ways to die than warm and drunk. I knew a brother drowned himself in wine once. It was a poor vintage, though, and his corpse did not improve it.
There are old sellswords and bold sellswords, but no old bold sellswords.
There are no men like me. There's only me
The world is full of horrors, Tommen. You can fight them, or laugh at them, or look without seeing...
The way the world is made. The truth is all around you, plain to behold. The night is dark and full of terrors, the day bright and beautiful and full of hope. One is black, the other white. There is i...
The red priestess shuddered. Blood trickled down her thigh, black and smoking. The fire was inside her, an agony, an ecstasy, filling her, searing her, transforming her. Shimmers of heat traced patter...
The only way to keep your people loyal is to make certain they fear you more than they do the enemy.
The north remembers, Lord Davos. The north remembers, and the mummer’s farce is almost done. My son is home.
The night is dark and full of terrors.
The man who fears losing has already lost.
The loneliness of people who sit alone in furnished rooms in crowded cities, because they’ve got nowhere to go and no one to talk to. The loneliness of guys who go to bars to meet someone, only to dis...
The little man gave the big one a look. One of his eyes was green, one was black, and both were cool.
The lies we tell for love, he thought. May the gods forgive me.
The godswife thought her a child, but children grow, and children learn.
The gods mock the prayers of kings and cowherds alike.
The gods made the earth for all men t' share. Only when the kings come with their crowns and steel swords, they claimed it was all theirs. My trees, they said, you can't eat them apples. My stream, yo...
The gods don’t care about men, no more than kings care about peasants.
The faithful dog is kicked, and no matter how the spider weaves, he is never loved.
The dream was green, and the green dreams do not lie.
The day before last, Jon had made the mistake of wishing he had hot water for a bath. Cold is better, she had said at once, if you’ve got someone to warm you up after. The river’s only part ice yet, g...