He had found over the years that silence sometimes yielded more than questions. And so it was this time.
He closed his third eye and opened the other two, the old two, the blind two.
Has my tale turned you speechless? Come, curse me or kiss me or call me a liar. Something.
Hard things only grow harder if you put them off.
Half of the Ullers are half-mad, the saying went, and the other half are worse.
Give a thing a name and it will somehow come to be.
For the oak recalls the acorn, the acorn dreams the oak, the stump lives in them both.
Fear is what keeps a man alive in this world of treachery and deceit.
Family, Duty, Honor,
Everyone who isn't us is an enemy. - Cersei
Everyone talks about snows forty foot deep, and how the ice wind comes howling out of the north, but the real enemy is the cold. It steals up on you quieter than Will, and at first you shiver and your...
Every touch a lie. I have paid her so much false coin that she half thinks she's rich.
Every hurt is a lesson, and every lesson makes you better.
Every flight begins with a fall, the crow said.
Every battle is a gamble, Snow. The man who does nothing also takes a risk.
Even the sky was grey. Grey and grey and greyer. The whole world grey, everywhere you look, everything grey except the eyes of the bride. The eyes of the bride were brown. Big and brown and full of fe...
Even a priest may doubt. Even a prophet may know terror. Aeron Damphair reached within himself for his god and discovered only silence.
Empathetic silence is one of the most underused weapons in the world.
El enemigo al que no se ve es siempre el más temible.
El corazón miente y la mente engaña, pero los ojos ven. Mira con los ojos. Escucha con los oídos. Saborea con la boca. Huele con la nariz. Siente con la piel. Y no pienses hasta después, y así sabrás...