Shagga son of Dolf likes this not. Shagga will go with the boyman, and if the boyman lies, Shagga will chop off his manhood--and feed it to the goats, yes, Tyrion said wearily.
Shadow? Davos felt his flesh prickling. A shadow is a thing of darkness. You are more ignorant than a child, ser knight. There are no shadows in the dark. Shadows are the servants of light, the childr...
Seven hundred feet above, the sentries heard and raised their warhorns to their lips. The sound rang out, echoing off the Wall and out across the world. Ahoooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo. One long blas...
Serving men cleared away the swan, hardly touched. Cersei beckoned for the sweets. I hope you like blackberry tarts. I love all sorts of tarts. Oh, I've know that for a long while. Do you know why Var...
Ser Gerold Hightower had begun his history, and Ser Barristan Selmy had continued it, but the rest Jaime Lannister would need to write for himself. He could write whatever he chose, henceforth.
Robert wanted to be loved. My brother Tyrion has the same disease. Do you want to be loved, Sansa?Everyone wants to be loved.I see flowering hasn’t made you any brighter, said Cersei. Sansa, permit me...
R'hllor, come to us in our darkness,' she called. 'Lord of Light, we offer you these false gods, these seven who are one, and him the enemy. Take them and cast your light upon us, for the night is dar...
One thing all the stories agreed on: King Robert was dead. The bells in the seven towers of the Great Sept of Baelor had tolled for a day and a night, the thunder of their grief rolling across the cit...
Now you know the crow whispered as it sat on his shoulder. Now you know why you must live. Why Bran said not understanding falling falling. Because winter is coming.
Nor was he Aemon Targaryen. Three times the old man had chosen, and three times he had chosen honor, but that was him. Even now, Jon could not decide whether the maester had stayed because he was weak...
Nobody likes cravens, he said uncomfortably. I wish we hadn’t helped him. What if they think we’re craven too?You're too stupid to be craven, Pyp told him. I am not, Grenn said. Yes you are. If a bear...
Never refuse a cup of wine or a horn of ale, Ser Arlan had once told him, it may be a year before you see another.
Needle was Robb and Bran and Rickon, her mother and her father, even Sansa. Needle was Winterfell's grey walls, and the laughter of its people. Needle was the summer snows, Old Nan's stories, the hear...
My father was a traitor, Sansa said at once. And my brother and lady mother are traitors as well. That reflex she had learned quickly. I am loyal to my beloved Joffrey. No doubt. As loyal as a deer su...
Must I say it, ser? You call me love, yet you refuse me, when I have most desperate need of you. Is it so wrong of me to want a knight to keep me safe? - Arianne
Most men would rather deny a hard truth than face it,’ the dwarf had told him smiling. The world was full of cravens who pretended to be heroes; it took a queer sort of courage to admit to cowardice a...
Missandei said the Peaceful People made music instead of war. They did not kill, not even animals; they ate only fruit and never flesh.
Mhysa! a brown-skinned man shouted out at her. He had a child on his shoulder, a little girl, and she screamed the same word in her thin voice. Mhysa! Mhysa!Dany looked at Missandei. What are they sho...
Men are such thundering great fools. Even the sort who come along once in a thousand years.
Melisandre: I pray for a glimpse of Azor Ahai, and R'hllor shows me only snow.